Originally Posted by
nothead
Hey he was just a lusty guy. What's so bad about having 38 wives? He didn't STALK them, he made up a religion where he could HAVE THEM.
Pletty shmart fella, I gumpshun. That's a harem all right.
If he made himself God, then so did Hirohito until he had to take it back. God told Moses he would be ELOHIM to pharoah, so what's the big deal?
Hint: Hebrews had no term for 'God' as we know it now. The closest word then was ELOHIM.
You know the inherent problem with the early Mormon Church was...
If JS had 38 wives, then what happened to the men these were supposed to have normally wed? They got put to pasture? Couldn't even have children, or find some women somewhere else, because if JS didn't get all the pretty ones, then one of them OTHER big shots did...
...immediately making the Church as a WHOLE survival of the fittest, or studliest, or something....LUSTIEST??
Whoo hoo. Some guys get ALL the girls. YOU GO, Guys.