After my latest reading, there are really just two things I feel the need to touch upon; the craziness of Dan Lafferty and Joseph Smith.
Dan Lafferty was an LDS Mormon, he believed in the practices of Mormon and lived a fairly normal life besides the fact that he was a Mormon. At some point when he went to a church meeting in his small town in California he decided it would be a good idea to change the way he practiced. He turned off all of the gas and electricity in house, pulled his kids out of school, and took on his step-daughter as his second wife. This is a JOKE! I know that is what he believes and all, but, come on, this is the silliest thing I've heard. Wait, it gets better though. He started treating his kids when they were ill.... by prayer and herbal remedies. He even birthed his own child and did the circumsition himself.
I feel that when reading this book, with being how great it is, it is making me more and more stupid by even thinking about the beliefs.
Here is why:
Joseph Smith explained to his followers that God had told him two things. One; the Garden of Eden was actually in a town in Northwest Missouri, and not in the Middle East. Two; he told him that Jesus would soon walk again in this place. Upon recieving this messasge, Smith told everyone that they should move the religion to this place and think of it as a New Jerusalem. Smith made enemies in Missouri, a lot of them. To the point where they had to move from place to place to avoid mobs of death. Eventually, after being arrested and escaping from jail, they moved back to Illinois, where he became a prominent politician. Again as he did in Missouri though, he made more enemies, which lead to his untimely death. He was in jail when a mob came at him and shot him and shot him some more. Joseph Smith believed that he was the second coming of Mohammed to the Muslims. I laughed when I read this.
Stay tuned for the final post.
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