Sidney Rigdon, One of the Inventors of Mormonism

[Apologette]

Joe Smith was a crook.......that's about the bottom line. A crook and a womanizer who should have been put in prison for a long, long time. He took advantage of credulous people, and is doing so from the grave to this very day. Anybody who believes Smith needs a reality check - but they won't listen; they are in bondage because that is exactly where they want to be.

Sidney Rigdon was kicked out of the Baptists and the Campbellites for his bizarre beliefs. He found the perfect stooge, Joseph Smith, who he used to invent a religion, Mormonism, and promote his ( Rigdon's ) weirdo beliefs. Rigdon was the brains, Smith was the patsy, but also the charismatic personality who corralled the naive and got them to pay him ten percent of their income to "promote" Mormonism.

This link explains Rigdon's part in the creation of Mormonism:

http://www.mormonsinshock.com/Origins.htm

And by the way, it was Rigdon who first brought up the word "extermination, " when he threatened that all apostates (people getting a clue who were fleeing this invented false religion) were going to be exterminated in his famous "Salt Sermon." Get a clue yourselves Mormons!

[BigJulie]

And yet--from this "bizarre" beginning (as shared by 200-year-old gossips yesterday and today) has sprung a church that teaches men to love and be faithful to their wives, to give charitably, to help the needy, to love their neighbor. From this "womanizer" we learn of Jesus Christ, of his sacrifice in our behalf, his resurrection, and eternal families. Those who disparage the church would have you believe that an orchard arose from a cesspool.

[MickeyS]

It might help your cause if you were consistent with your description of individuals.

An earlier thread you created painted the Rigdon family as honest, brave & upright individuals who stood up to Joseph Smith's evil practices

Here you attempt to show SIDNEY as being the evil mastermind of a diabolical fraud.

Either one is true and one is not, or they're both inaccurate (which is the reality)


But what's impossible is for BOTH to be true. If you want people to take you seriously, you really should be consistent.

[alanmolstad]

It might help your cause if you were consistent with your description of individuals.

An earlier thread you created painted the Rigdon family as honest, brave & upright individuals who stood up to Joseph Smith's evil practices

Here you attempt to show SIDNEY as being the evil mastermind of a diabolical fraud.

Either one is true and one is not, or they're both inaccurate (which is the reality)



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But what's impossible is for BOTH to be true. If you want people to take you seriously, you really should be consistent.so totally wrong I dont know where to start....



people are human....humans are most of the time totally inconsistent.
I can have good days, and bad days.


I have no clue who did what....But I do know that many people have stood upto Mormonism in the past, and done great things to bring people out ofthe church,but they yet never really became Christians...

I know of many people I helped get out of the CULT of the JWs, but they later got sucked into the 7th Dayers....


Now as for the Rigdon family?
Clearly this is where Smith got all his ideas for the later Book of Mormon.




Now Im not saying the Rigdon was without flaws....
But I am saying that I think the Mormon church should recognize that the Rigdon book was the sole inspiration behind Smith's Book of Mormon.


. FACT: Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, was snowbound in a hotel in Mentor Ohio, with a man named R.W. Alderman. Alderman states that he learned from Harris then that "Rigdon had stolen a m****cript from a printing office in Pittsburgh, Pa., which Spalding....had left to be printed....Jo (Smith) and Rigdon did (print it), as the Book of Mormon.




when you read the information in the link you do find that the proof is strong that the Book of Mormon is a ripped-off version of a book that was writen by some other guy , who wanted it printed, but it got stolen...


I think it would be a stepin the right direction for the Mormon church to come out and admit that Smith's story to the Book of Mormon is just a story, and that the real truth is that the Book of Mormon is mostly taken from another romance book, and has nothing to do with real history.

[Phoenix]

And yet--from this "bizarre" beginning (as shared by 200-year-old gossips yesterday and today) has sprung a church that teaches men to love and be faithful to their wives, to give charitably, to help the needy, to love their neighbor. From this "womanizer" we learn of Jesus Christ, of his sacrifice in our behalf, his resurrection, and eternal families. Those who disparage the church would have you believe that an orchard arose from a cesspool.

i know the gossips are old, but I don't think they are quite 200 years old yet. after they have posted for a few more years, then they might hit the 200 mark. :)

[Phoenix]

And by the way, it was Rigdon who first brought up the word "extermination, " when he threatened that all apostates (people getting a clue who were fleeing this invented false religion) were going to be exterminated

but in your "krusading" you said that his extermination threat was aimed at the christian townspeople. now you are claiming that it was aimed at LDS who were getting out of the church.

is there ever a point where you look in the mirror and think "does Jesus really justify the false things i say about the LDS?"