Is it because the Democrats are in disarray?
Nesrie
1816
Maybe it’s because Biden’s campaign is going down like a deflated blimp.
It’s because the elitist liberals that populate Kentucky don’t represent the rural American patriots that make up Trump’s base. I mean, duh.
Every time I see something like that.
Timex
1819
AP coming at you with a hot take.
Nesrie
1820
Well it’s been awhile since someone was outraged over Big Love and it’s glamorizing polygamy which you would never actually think if you actually watched the show.
KevinC
1821
What a weird tweet. The headline of the actual article is “Mexico killing highlights confusion over Mormon groups”.
Guap
1822
A lot of people read “Mormons” and read that as "travellers from Utah who accidentally crossed the border and got killed in Mexico. When in actuality it’s Mexicans that have been there for generations.
I assumed they were missionaries on first read.
My wife picked up early in this story that they lived in a remote area of Mexico because they wanted to practice polygamy in peace. I haven’t really read anything about that in the reporting but it does make sense.
Guap
1826
Yeah, they are a splinter group that went to Mexico after Smith was killed by a mob that was running them out of town. I think, Mormon history not my forte.
The whole thing split and one group went to Utah, one following Brigham Young went to Missouri (I think), and sounds like this one went to Mexico. In the 1800s.
The polygamy part is being discussed in the media now, no idea if it’s true, but sounds about right.
Timex
1827
The thing is, the story here is that a family of people were brutally shot and then burned to death in their car by drug cartels.
The stuff about their mormonism is immaterial.
KevinC
1828
Joseph Smith was a fan of polygamy. Then he had a great idea where all men must serve 2-year missions to convert people in far away lands. That opened the door to him marrying and banging their wives while they were gone.
After Smith got shot and killed the majority of Mormons fled west and settled in Deseret, which later became Utah Territory:
They continued to practice polygamy there under Brigham Young and others up until the 1890s, when Utah was trying to become a State. The US government demanded that they cease practicing polygamy as a condition to granting statehood. At this time, and purely as a coincidence, the leader of the Mormon church suddenly had a revelation of God saying to stop polygamy so they did. This fractured the church and several fundamentalist splinters that refused to give up the practice were formed. Warren Jeffs is a recent example of a leader of one of these factions, which the LDS church does their best to distance themselves from.
That is the main reason they recently insist on not being called “Mormon” or “LDS” and instead referred to by their ludicrously cumbersome name which no one will ever use commonly for obvious reasons. Those fundamentalist groups are pretty loathed as heretics by mainstream Mormons, which has always amused me since they’re the ones that didn’t let a promise of statehood change their supposed divine doctrine.
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Smith is fascinating. He’s really the first guy after Mohammed, I think, who just up and wrote a new religious founding document and got major traction.
Yeah, I was careful to say ‘first’ rather than ‘only.’
Also, and at the risk of offending Qt3 Mormons, I just found and can’t help sharing this delicious Mark Twain snark. I hope it will be taken in the spirit of… Mark Twain snark.
ALL men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the “elect” have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so “slow,” so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle–keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.
You are correct. However, this came up at my house when I said to my wife “why would you live in a remote area of Mexico that’s being inhabited by drug cartels? What is going on here?” And she replied that they were there (and staying there) because of the polygamy.
Guap
1833
I think it confused people into believing they were Americans.
Nesrie
1834
Now I am confused. The people who were killed were Americans according to the article I read. Are you saying they… aren’t?
