Mormon Temples

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I am a former Mormon. I attended the temple many times and was married there as well. I found the temple not beautiful but garish, like the way hillbillies would decorate if given an unlimited budget.

In the Mormon temple, they teach you secret handshakes and passwords that they believe will allow you to pass by the sentinels that guard the way to heaven. If you don’t know the handshakes and passwords, you cannot get into heaven. They also make you wear a robe, a hat and a green apron that all looks very silly.

Back in the 70’ and 80’s when I was attending the temple, we had to swear to have our throats cut, our hearts torn from our chests and fed to the beasts, and to be disemboweled if we ever revealed the secrets of the temple. Oops, I’m in trouble! :eek:

As soon as the temple info became available on the internet, they started changing it to take out some of the parts that were deeply offensive to Christians (such as a spoof that made fun of a guy playing the part of a dim-witted Christian minister). In 1990 they removed the throat-cutting and disembowelment.

Later they took out parts offensive to feminists, such as women promising to obey their husbands as they would obey God.

But it’s still very cultish and IMO, satanic.

Paul
 
**In the Mormon temple, they teach you secret handshakes and passwords that they believe will allow you to pass by the sentinels that guard the way to heaven. If you don’t know the handshakes and passwords, you cannot get into heaven. They also make you wear a robe, a hat and a green apron that all looks very silly.

Back in the 70’ and 80’s when I was attending the temple, we had to swear to have our throats cut, our hearts torn from our chests and fed to the beasts, and to be disemboweled if we ever revealed the secrets of the temple. Oops, I’m in trouble!**

**All of this is right out of the first three degrees of Masonry.

Now you know why Mormonoids are forbidden to be Masons; they would recognize where the Temple ceremonial and endowments came from.**
 
Gisella said:
I got to go inside one with my friend once, and I couldn’t believe how beautiful it was.Has anyone else had the chance to go in one? Here’s a picture of the room for weddings:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj18/applemartini_2008/celestial_sl.jpg
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this is NOT the room for weddings. This is a celestial room where people sit quietly for a very brief period of time after receiving their endowments to contemplate what they just experienced. sealing rooms are used for “weddings”. they are small and sparsely furnished since only a few people are to be present for the short ordinance that constitutes a mormon “wedding”.
 
Never been one, and the only one I’ve every actually seen is the one on the D.C. beltway. Back in the late '70s, as you went westbound from the Parkway on the northern side of the Beltway and came into view of the temple, someone had spraypainted

SURRENDER DOROTHY

on one of the overpasses.

It stayed there for years

It would have been more effective if someone could have snuck onto the grounds and put green gels on all the floodlights.

😃

DaveBj
 
Gisella said:
I got to go inside one with my friend once, and I couldn’t believe how beautiful it was.Has anyone else had the chance to go in one? Here’s a picture of the room for weddings:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj18/applemartini_2008/celestial_sl.jpg
Click to expand...
Years ago the head of the LDS community at SDSU gave the other faith communities a private tour of the temple in La Jolla before it was commissioned, or consecrated, whatever. What I remember most were the beautiful women they had outside the entrance to put little booties on everyone’s shoes. I guess that was to protect the floor. We thought there was a reason for the women too.😉

My impression was that, though beautiful inside, it was full of symbolism and no substance. Everywhere we went, the guide told us how this or that “symbolized” something. After a while, everything just seemed fake to me.
 
I am most certainly not a Mormon, but I can appreciate fine architecture and tasteful interior design. While not Catholic, the designs I see here do not appear ostentatious, but rather peaceful and calming; they encourage a person to be quiet and respectful.

Too bad we are losing this idea in many new and remodeled Catholic parishes.
 
Even though I’ve never visited it, from what I can see, I personally think that the Temple that Mother Angelica had built in Burmingham AL is much more lovely. It also looks much more like what I would consider to be a Temple.
 
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