Top 10 Amazing Facts of Mormonism
by Fran Eaton
Maybe Barack Obama's religion is not the most controversial of the presidential candidates.
Read Jill Martin Riche's
"Top 10 Amazing Facts of Mormonism"
- Mormons can become gods and goddesses.
- Goddesses will spend eternity in full submission to their god-husband.
- Mormon women will give birth “forever and ever” to spirit-babies.
- Mormon men can have multiple wives in heaven—eternal polygamy.
- Heavenly Father is an exalted man who lives with his goddess wife, Heavenly Mother, on a planet near the great star Kolob.
- American Indians are descendants of the wicked Lamanites, who were Israelites that God cursed with dark skin.
- God the Father had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus, who is the half brother of Lucifer.
- All Christian churches are an abomination.
- Mormons need 4 secret handshakes to get into the Celestial heaven.
- Joseph Smith revealed that the actual Garden of Eden is in Jackson County, Missouri.
UPDATE from IR Commenter "Alma": "Of the ten things mentioned, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 are inaccurate or misleading, and 6, 7, 8 and 9 are just plain false. It is comforting to see that Jill Martin Reiche's batting average is only moderately better than her father's ("Dr." Walter Martin) was."
[ED. note: Thanks, Alma, for the response. Let's get this issue discussed and off the table . . . Anyone else?]
