by Dan Wees | Dec 22, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Abraham Owen Woodruff, an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explicitly declined the smallpox vaccine, believing that God would safeguard him from the disease. Despite his convictions, both Woodruff and his wife Helen contracted smallpox....
by Dan Wees | Dec 9, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“[A]ll who will not hearken to the Book of Mormon, shall be cut off from among the people; and that too, in the day it comes forth to the Gentiles and is rejected by them. And not only does this page set the time for the overthrow of our government and all other...
by Dan Wees | Nov 3, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he prophet Joseph [Smith, Jr.] used to frequent houses of ill-fame. Mrs. White, a very pretty and attractive woman, once confessed to me that she made a business of it to be hospitable to the captains of the Mississippi steamboats. She told me that Joseph had made...
by Dan Wees | Oct 22, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“[A]nd he did smile upon them again; and behold they were white, even as Jesus.” 3 Nephi 19:30 This racially charged passage is not only offensive, but it is also factually incorrect. Neither Jesus nor the inhabitants of America were white in 33...
by Dan Wees | Oct 7, 2020 | Miscellaneous
During your initial visit to the LDS temple, you will be required to receive a special “New Name.” This involves being escorted into a small room by a temple worker, who then provides you with the name, along with instructions to remember and use it later...
by Dan Wees | Oct 4, 2020 | Miscellaneous
In 3 Nephi 12:22 (an almost verbatim use of Matthew 5:22) Mormons claim Jesus used the word Raca which is from the Greek raká, itself from the Aramaic rêqā, “empty-head, fool, numbskull; good for nothing, worthless man.” The choice of this word would have completely...
