by Dan Wees | May 24, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“I wish such characters [outsiders] would let the boys have a chance to lay their hands on them. “If men come here and do not behave themselves, they will not only find the Danites, whom they talk so much about, biting the horses’ heels, but the scoundrels...
by Dan Wees | May 19, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“Pres[iden]t.[Brigham]Young spoke 15 minutes and told the people not to trade another cent with any man who does not pay his tithing and help gather the poor, and pray in his family. In regard to all the men who had bought goods of our enemies of late, he told them to...
by Dan Wees | May 12, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“Deity in his infinite wisdom, to carry out his inscrutable purposes, has a caste system of his own, a system of segregation of races and peoples. The justice of such a system is evident when life is considered in its true eternal perspective. It is only by a...
by Dan Wees | May 10, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“The Church shouldn’t tie religious faith to its history. Religious faith should be faith in God and in one’s fellowmen — not faith in some historical events and their official interpretation. In the case of Mormonism, historical events have been made in effect...
by Dan Wees | May 10, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“[H]onesty is not a particularly common virtue of churches or of any other organization. There is nothing new about churches perverting history. This has been done ever since we have had churches, and I suppose it will continue as long as churches persist. Most...
by Dan Wees | May 7, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“He [Jesus Christ] never told a man or woman to love their enemies in their wickedness, never. He never intended any such thing … Jesus Christ never meant that we should love a wicked man in his wickedness.” Brigham Young – 8 February 1857, Journal of...
