Polygamy Porter wrote:Flash Gordo is at it again, brandishing numbers to keep the deceived deluded.
"It is reliably estimated that a million missionaries have served since the organization of the Church.”
Jason is right; this number seems reasonable. Call 25,000 a year for 40 years and you get 1 million served.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
So when is the Catholic church going to come out and announce:
"Since the Roman Catholic Church was formed, we've had 423,543,233 nuns and priests serve the Lord. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mormons".
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Blixa wrote:It's kind of obvious, in fact. So why the announcement hoopla?
I believe they announced that they also passed the 13 million member mark as well. That deserves some hoopla i guess - they'd been stuck in the 12 millions for so long....
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
With such an active missionary force and such emphasis on the missionary spirit of the church, it stands to reason that there could be a million mishionaries. It still seems like a pretty anti-climactic announcement. But then the so is the "new" truth revealed campaign, so maybe its just more of the same...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
While I was a missionary there were roughly 50,000 missionaries in "the field". With that specific number it would take 20 years to cycle through a million missionaries.
They are probably counting every missionary since the inception of the fraud in order to reach this number.
Its somewhat credible but I still do not see why this is something hinckley is flourishing about.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
So when he stand up in Provo in front of a statue of the man who was killed for opposing polygamy and uses statistician speak like "reliably estimated", for me, someone able to examine him critically and objectively, it throws up a red flag.
Again, you think and widely speculate that he was killed for opposint polygamy.
But again, do the math. Over the past 30 years it would have been easy to hit a million missionaries.
the speculation does not rest in polyg. being the primary motivation. It was the power over the LDSerfs briggy was trying to gain.
Power, with a helping of misogyny.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
the speculation does not rest in polyg. being the primary motivation. It was the power over the LDSerfs briggy was trying to gain.
Power, with a helping of misogyny.
PP said Polygamy. But I agree that if it happened it more likely would have been over succession. I know William Marks feared for his life if he opposed BY more vigorously. Samual was really the only viable Smith left alive at the time. William was far to unstable.