LDS Church acknowledges Joseph Smith's polygamy for the first time

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Man makes up a religion. As part of that he gets to legitimise being a sexual predator by gifting himself a harem.

And yet despite that, the fact is that as a group Mormons are probably some of the nicest people one can meet, so long as you don't meet any of those that still practice polygamy.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Man makes up a religion. As part of that he gets to legitimise being a sexual predator by gifting himself a harem.

And yet despite that, the fact is that as a group Mormons are probably some of the nicest people one can meet, so long as you don't meet any of those that still practice polygamy.

Being nice is a poor substitute for condemning sexual predators.

So are you planning on joining the same church as Chris Hansen?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Man makes up a religion. As part of that he gets to legitimise being a sexual predator by gifting himself a harem.

And yet despite that, the fact is that as a group Mormons are probably some of the nicest people one can meet, so long as you don't meet any of those that still practice polygamy.

Being nice is a poor substitute for condemning sexual predators.

So are you planning on joining the same church as Chris Hansen?

I have no intentions of joining any religious group, but if I were, I certainly would avoid any of them that shamelessly shun gay people while simultaneous celebrating monstrous sexual practices. Do you condone an adult man marrying multiple teenaged girls?

No I don't condone such things, but neither does the CoJC&LDS today.  They haven't done that for over a century.  Luther was anti-Semetic, does that mean Lutheranism today is horrible?  I'll leave the past to the past and judge a church, or any other organization, by what it does today.  Now, it's treatment of gays is a valid concern as that is still part of the Mormon church today, tho when it comes to such matters it hardly is the most extreme of the denominations that still hold a traditional view of homosexuality.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Man makes up a religion. As part of that he gets to legitimise being a sexual predator by gifting himself a harem.

And yet despite that, the fact is that as a group Mormons are probably some of the nicest people one can meet, so long as you don't meet any of those that still practice polygamy.

Being nice is a poor substitute for condemning sexual predators.

So are you planning on joining the same church as Chris Hansen?

I have no intentions of joining any religious group, but if I were, I certainly would avoid any of them that shamelessly shun gay people while simultaneous celebrating monstrous sexual practices. Do you condone an adult man marrying multiple teenaged girls?

No I don't condone such things, but neither does the CoJC&LDS today.  They haven't done that for over a century.  Luther was anti-Semetic, does that mean Lutheranism today is horrible?  I'll leave the past to the past and judge a church, or any other organization, by what it does today.  Now, it's treatment of gays is a valid concern as that is still part of the Mormon church today, tho when it comes to such matters it hardly is the most extreme of the denominations that still hold a traditional view of homosexuality.

So you view a church as merely an organization and its founder not as a bearer of eternal truth? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of belonging to a religion?

Whatever else Joseph Smith was, charlatan, prophet, or a mix, he was a man and all men are subject to error.  The Divine clearly has not chosen to present an unambiguous source of eternal truth that would be made undeniably clear as being that source to us humans.  While we cannot fully know the mind of God, it's fairly clear to me that ey desires humanity to examine ethics critically rather than simply follow rote rules, tho an early part of ey's education of us humans was to provide such rules as examples of why such a system does not work well for beings such as us who have free will but lack the omniscience of the Divine.