Do Mormons believe in many gods, believing each planet has its own god and that the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are three gods?

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many who don’t even know where their next meal is coming from.
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This disturbs me as well and far too many religions do this. Mega churches that demand tithes from congregants that make maybe $300 a week and the pastor lives in a mansion! I have no problem with people accumulating wealth. I have a problem with people that do it on the backs of poor people and do not share their abundance. What religion says that is ok? None of them.
 
If the people want to pay their tithing instead of making a rent payment, that’s for them to decide. I take issue with the emotional blackmailing of the churches upon their congregants.
 
I’d tell you the story but by the third sentence you’d be bored stiff and looking at your phone wondering why this guy (me) doesn’t shut up.
 
the finances are incredibly murky. I’ve heard that even the top brass doesn’t know for sure where they go. It repulses me. These men are thieves.
 
That happens more frequently than the general public knows. Just a few years ago during their General Conference they had someone talk about how tithing was more important that rent and food money. Chilling. Just flat out chilling.
 
Not really; I love conversion stories, especially from what I would consider the “non-traditional”, I guess would be the way to put it, religions. And also, I am on a laptop.
 
I know the subject has drifted…
But yes, Mormons believe that those who live worthy Mormon lives will be given their own planet to populate and rule! And the places where Mormonism is growing are places that don’t have internet, or areas where most people can’t afford internet service/devices.

Praise to the 'Net!
 
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Mormons believe that those who live worthy Mormon lives will be given their own planet to populate and rule!
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I’m not a Mormon, but I don’t believe this is accurate. Will you please post a source for this?
 
A lot of the weird Mormon beliefs are never talked about in the ward. I mean never. Even in the temple they aren’t talked about. The Momon church has realized how truly bizarre this stuff is and has decided to just sweep it under the rug. They are fighting a losing battle because of the internet. Wi-Fi forced their hand.
 
Yes, the god of this planet is supposed to live near a star called ‘Kolob’. I believe that’s from the book of Abraham…part of the Egyptian papyri that Joseph bought from a carnival exhibit, whose owner wanted to get out of the business. At the time, there was no way to directly translate from Egyptian hieroglyphics.

A more recent translation has found that not one word of Joseph’s translation of the same document is correct. I don’t have a link now, because there is so much Mormon spin on the official documents. I probably could find it on an ‘anti-Mormon’ site, but there are so many of them, with varying degrees of accuracy. If I do find anything on a Mormon or neutral site, I’ll post it. But, for years, this is how I’ve understood the explanation for the plurality of God’s.
 
Legend said:
A more recent translation has found that not one word of Joseph’s translation of the same document is correct.
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Right. Even the LDS church admits this now, in their famous “essays”. When you think about it, this should be the final “nail in the coffin” for anyone who still believes in Mormonism. It isn’t of course, but it should be.
 
Do you think it would be accurate to say that while Mormonism believes these things, maybe Mormons don’t?
 
As little sense as this seems to make, this seems to be true. I think that, even before the days of internet, many Mormons just stayed because it was what they were raised to do, and they didn’t want such a radical change of lifestyle. Converts probably stayed only when they had married, or made other commitments it would be difficult or unpleasant to break.

It will be interesting to see how things will change, now with the internet. They used to have a strict ‘milk before meat’ as they called it, way of teaching people. Now that they can’t easily control what their converts or Young people find out, are they going to get ultra strict? Their past actions have been to become honest with outsiders. Like the 2014 NY Times article on Joseph’s marriages. I think they were trying to take control. But, the floodgates have been opened! So, will they play the obedience card? Maybe require access to all members computers?

I really don’t know. But, it will be interesting to watch!
 
That’s a great question, and one I’ve thought of a lot. The quick answer is yes-since Mormon “theology” and “history” is all over the place and it’s not taught very often, most Mormons, even lifelong ones, don’t have a firm grasp of their history or theology. That’s why some kids on their mission are stunned when they hear an “investigator” ask the questions about Smith Jrs polygamy, treasure digging, Book of Abraham problems, marrying 14 year olds, etc. They’ve never heard about those things, much less Kolob or the second anointing*, etc. So they don’t believe it.

The other awkward truth is that it’s very easy to become a Mormon. You show up, say that you’ve read the BOM, and then ask to get baptized. They say yes, the bishop/stake president (the SP is in charge of several wards, the bishop only one) meets them, and bam. The entire process can take as little as a month. You don’t learn very much in the process. If you did, you wouldn’t become Mormon.

The longer answer is that some Mormons actually do believe all of it hook, line and sinker. Including the truly weird beliefs like Kolob, etc. You’d be surprised how many otherwise brilliant and highly decent people believe this stuff.

*the second anointing is their “secret” ceremony where higher ups in the church get their feet washed by an apostle in the temple. They are also promised certain spiritual things, and their salvation is assured. I’ve never had it done, but if you advance high enough in their church, you can have it done.
 
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I really don’t know. But, it will be interesting to watch!
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Yes it will. If you notice about 3-7 years ago the leaders were warning people to stop going online and doing “research” because people were leaving the church. Famously, an apostle said “Give brother Joesph a break.” Now, they sort of realize that all they were doing was calling attention to the numerous problems. After all, why would you forbid research if you had nothing to hide?
 
 
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There’s the guy. Like I said above, “Give Bother Joesph a break” is their way of waving a white flag. They have no logical counter argument, so all they can say is “Stop researching.”
 
“Brother Joseph”, if he were still alive, would have been excommunicated from the church he invented.
 
Couldn’t agree more. If Joesph Smith was alive today, he would, justifiably, be doing life in prison.Heck, he couldn’t even avoid jail in his own time.
 
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