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The 40 wives of the founder of the Mormons and other "secrets" of religion

24Horas.cl TVN 16.11.2014

Neither one, nor two, nor three.The founder of the Mormon Church Joseph Smith came to have 40 wives.

In an essay published on its website, the Church ensures that among its spouses there was a 14 -year -old girl and also some women who had already married.

The Mormon Church prohibited polygamy in 1890 and now excommunicates those who practice it.

Previously Smith had been portrayed as a devout man and faithful to his first wife Emma.However, this is not the first time that the Church admits its polygamy.

SHOCK

In the text entitled "Plural marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" the following is read: "Joseph contracted nuptials with additional wives and authorized other churches of the saints of recent days to practice plural marriage".

And it continues: "The plural marriage was difficult for all involved.For Emma it was a painful torment ".

Most women were between 20 and 40 when Smith married them.

The youngest was Helen Mar Kimball, the daughter of two nearby friends, with whom she contracted nuptials months before she turned 15 years old.

It is likely that Joseph Smith - whom the Mormons consider a prophet - has not had sex with all their wives, because "some were reserved only for the next life," explains the essay.

The Mormon religion, whose main headquarters is in the state of Utah (United States), is officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of the last days and has more than 15 million members.

Las 40 esposas del fundador de los mormones y otros

The Mormon Church

- You no longer accept polygamy and excommunicate who practices it.

- It does not allow its members smoking or drinking alcohol.

- Tea and coffee are also prohibited.

- 10% of income must be delivered to the Church.

- Homosexual sex is not allowed.

- The parishes are called congregations.

-The women cannot be priests, but missionary

Polygamy was very practiced by the men of the Church for several decades of the nineteenth century, but these revelations have shocked its members.

Emily Jensen, a blogger and editor in Farmington Utah, told The New York Times that Mormons have commented on social networks of the type: "This is not the church in which I grew up, this is not the Joseph Smith that I love".

While the practice of polygamy was abandoned in 1890, the concept is maintained.A man can be married or "reserved" for more than one woman after death, but not vice versa.

Church leaders ensure that the essay is an attempt to be transparent and truthful with their members.

Special underwear

Other details related to "secret" and sensitive issues of religion have been revealed in trials published on the Church website during the last year.

One has to do with white underwear - a shirt and a short - that they must wear under the suit with which they attend the temple and that they must always keep out of the public's view.

At the end of October, an unusually Franco video describes them as garments similar to those used in other religions, such as the habit of a nun or the saffron robe of the Buddhist monks.

The jokes related to the fact that the Mormons believe that these garments have special powers are considered offensive.

"There is nothing magical or mystical on temple garments," is heard in the recording.

Militias and his own planet

Another essay ensures that the Mormons created an armed militia - "Los Danitas" - after they were persecuted in the 1830s and 1840s.

The text, however, ensures that it was created in a context in which other militias operated, so that rumors about "a secret society of Mormon Justicieros" are unfounded.

The brief also describes how in 1857, a group of Mormons ambushed and killed 120 emigrants, including women and children.A crime that is known as "the Mountain Meadows massacre".

"In recent years, the Church has made diligent efforts to learn as much as possible about the massacre," says the text, where other violent facts that had not been previously admitted are also mentioned.

One of the Broadway musical phrases, The Book of Mormon, affirms the following: "I think God has a plan for all of us.I think that plan implies getting my own planet ".

The popular belief that the Mormons will go to their own planet when they die, is addressed in the essay "become like God".

There it is explained that Mormons believe that humans can become like God in eternity, "but the cartoon image of people receiving their own planet" is not exactly what they contemplate.

"Church members imagine an exaltation that is not related to images, but to the relationships they currently have and how these relationships can be purified".


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