by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Ted Capener: You certainly are not now or never have been, I’m sure, a prophet of doom, or of doomsday. Are we living in the last days? Gordon B. Hinckley: I don’t know, but we better act as if we were. Ted Capener: Yeah. Gordon B. Hinckley: Then we won’t have...
by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Contacting the Dead… CHARGE: Latter-day Saints are encouraged to have encounters with the alleged spirits of the dead. LDS RESPONSE: Like early Christians (1 Corinthians 15:29) Mormons perform rites in behalf of the dead, but there is no effort made to contact...
by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[F]rom all I can learn from the leading men among the Mormons and from various other sources that a grand conspiracy is about to be entered into between the Mormons and Indians to destroy all white settlements on the frontier.” ~Henry King/Indian agent, 1842 report...
by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
D. Michael Quinn: “It is also my conviction that God desires everyone to enjoy freedom of inquiry and expression without fear, obstruction, or intimidation. I find it one of the fundamental ironies of modern Mormonism that the same general authorities who praise...
by Dan Wees | Aug 25, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“There is an element in Moroni’s ‘promise’ that is often overlooked… his exhortation is explicitly given to the Lamanites only… “—Moroni 10— [v 1] Now I, Moroni, write somewhat as seemeth me good; and I write unto my brethren, the...
