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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:35
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Catholic
priests/child abuse victims
Not so!
Jo was on the LAMB, when he realized this would destroy
his followers faith in HIM, so he turned around and came back, after crossing
the river already headed for the hills!
The federal Constitution forbids destruction of property
without due process of law.
Blaine: Then
why did the Feds not redress the massive destruction of Mormon property
in Missouri? Barns burned, houses looted and burned, farm animals
taken . . . Where were the Feds when we needed
them?
This all came about as
a direct result of free presses slandering and maligning Mormon
citizens. Then there was the ruthless shooting in the heads of two
small boys who were on their knees begging for mercy . .
. the Haun's Mill Massacre of 16 men, women and children. Does
freedom of the press give the right to stir this kind of thing up? Do
you condone this?
Jo saw himself as General, Mayor, Presidential candidate, judge &
executioner. He was a dictator. There was NO legal process, NO papers not
served, NO trial, NO chance to hear the defense & other side of the story.
This is America NOT ZION where the prophet can Trample on rights whenever he
pleases. All men are due there day in Court William Law did not get his. Even
if there was reason; only the DISTURBING issues should have been confiscated
for later review in court. Instead a RIOTOUS MOB rather than a dulely
appointed Marshal or Law Enforcement agency did VIOLENCE against another mans
property DESTROYING everything they could get their hands on and carting the
pieces off to their homes.
Blaine: Joseph Smith
(not Jo, or Joe--only known by such among his enemies, who wished to
trivialize him in the eyes of others) had the full backing of the city fathers
of Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph was a duly elected Mayor, and had
the support of an overwhelming majority of the citizens of
Nauvoo. He was elected after his predecessor, John C. Bennet, a
slanderer and adulterer, was deposed. The Editors of the
Expositor were a small minority of apostates and troublemakers, using the free
press as an excuse to slander the good names of upstanding citizens, and stir
up contention. The city
council was simply trying to prevent these evil men from stirring up more
hatred of the Haun's Mill variety. They were in every sense justified in
destroying the press. (Satan is a
Hebrew word: It means "the Slanderer")
Legislature had placed in Joseph Smith's hands the legal and military
power with which to create a secular dictatorship without
rival in any other city in America.
Blaine Borrowman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
***Blaine:
Webster's unabridged dictionary, 2nd Edition, defines Martyr (Noun)
as:
A person who chooses to suffer
or die rather than give up his FAITH OR HIS PRINCIPLES.
Used a verb, the word
means: To put to death or toture for adherence to a
belief.
Joseph Smith predicted
his own death when he gave himself up to be arrested. He said, "I go
like lamb to the slaughter. My conscience is as clear as a
summer's morning. It shall yet be said of me, he died innocent."
Having said this,
he died a martyr in every sense of the word. He could have escaped,
but chose not to do so. The charge of treason was trumped up.
Knocking out the Expositor was not treason. knocking out the
expositor had the backing of the entire city council, for which
many men should have been charged. Apparently the local authorities
only wanted Joseph Smith. They knew he was innocent of the charge of
treason, or they would not have felt it necessary to send an armed mob of
over 100 men with painted faces to kill him.
Gov.
Ford of Illinois was in on the conspiracy. While in Nauvoo, Orrin
Porter Rockwell overheard Ford tell one of his men that "the deed was
done before this time," meaning, while the Ford people were in Nauvoo
pacifying the Mormons, they knew the killing of Joseph and his brother had
already been done in the city of Carthage. Many years
later, Ford complained that Carthage had taken on the same reputation
as Golgotha, and that he had been compared to Pontius
Pilate. Ford died penniless, and was buried in a pauper's
grave, next to one of his son's who was a
horsethief.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Catholic
priests/child abuse victims
Well at least we can agree that he was not a
MARTYR! Blaine Borrowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Blaine:
Well, if all else fails in attempting to gainsay the
doctrine itself, one can always resort to
attacking the character of the man. JS is not here to defend
himself, right?
JS was issued
over 40 arrest warrents in his lifetime, and beat them all--except
the last one when they murdered him and his brother Hyrum. The
armed guards who were supposedly defending him stepped
aside when the mob came up the stairs after him. The
guards fired some shots to make it appear they were doing their
duty, but strangely, none of the shots hit any mob members, despite the
fact that they were fired at point blank
range.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 18,
2004 11:56 AM
Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Catholic
priests/child abuse victims
husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused
of riot or unruly." (Titus 1:5-6 KJV)
Joe is disqualified on two counts here. More than 1 wife & more
than 1 riot!
1826 Warrant on Joseph Smith the "Glasslooker" for " disorderly
person and an imposture"
Blaine: See my comments
to DaveM
1843 Warrants issued for the attempted assasination of the Governor
of Missouri. Orin Porter Rockwell for assault with intent to kill, and
Smith for being an accessory "before the fact."
Blaine: The charge against Rockwell (a cousin of
JS, by the way) of attempting to kill governor Boggs, who had
issued an extermination order against all Mormons, was never
proven. As Rockwell said, "if I had done it, I would have
succeeded." He was a dead shot, and seldom known to miss his
man. He wore a long beard and his hair long, and had been
promised by JS that as long as he never cut his hair, he would never
be killed by his enemies. He outlived the prophet, and was a
mainstay for law and order in Utah. He was shot at innumerable
times, mostly by outlaws--like as in thieves, robbers, murderers,
etc. While JS was alive, Rockwell served as his
bodyguard. If fair had been fair, they would never have gotten
to JS to kill him. They had to trump up charges to have
Joseph a! ! rrested and away from Rockwell, whom they feared.
But they also knew JS was a law abiding man and would submit to
arrest. It was a conspiriacy from start to
finish.
Both were indicted and a warrant from Governor Carlin of Missouri
issued for Smith's arrest as a fugitive from the law in Missouri.
Blaine: The Missourians were not
exactly a respectable bunch themselves. The governor's illegal
extermination order was in opposition to constitutional law, as well
as Missouri law. He did it to pacify the mobs in much the same
spirit as Pontius Pilate agreed to crucify Jesus to pacify the
Pharisee-led mob.
In 1844 a warrant was issued for Joe the mayor of Nauvoo, he
was later arrested on a charge of Treason
Blaine: A trumped up charge to get him in
jail, where he could be the more easily murdered.
and taken to Carthage Jail.
When the jail was stormed Joe shot & killed 1 wounded a second,
with a smuggled gun.
Blaine: Wow! What
a rascal! He tried to defend himself!!
He threw a real curve on that mob, having his own gun! How
unfair of him! It wasn't as if he was naive and didn't know what
was happening with the mob. Besides smuggling the two guns he used against the mob, his friends kept him
informed as to what the mobs were doing, as well as what else was
happening. He very well knew what he was up against. He
should have had an automatic rifle, considering the
circumstances. LOL
Consider also Joe's violent character.
David Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Blaine wrote: > For this reason, I still firmly believe
Jesus > Christ was married, and that this fact--that >
he was married-- has, along with the sexual > molestation of
children, been covered up for > centuries by the RCC.
The RCC acknowledges that their celibacy doctrine concerning
the priesthood did not mature until about the fourth century. If
there was any "cover up," I think they would try to push the
origin of the doctrine back to the time of Christ.
If
Jesus was married, would we not have some record of it? With all
the details of the gospels, why would his wife be
unacknowledged?
Blaine wrote: > I cannot believe
He--Jesus--would implement a > doctrine either by example or
word, that would > end up being so disastrous!!
Jesus
never implemented the doctrine of forced celiba! cy practiced in
the Roman Catholic Church. Read what Jesus himself taught on the
matter:
"His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man
be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto
them, ALL MEN CANNOT RECEIVE THIS SAYING, SAVE THEY TO WHOM IT IS
GIVEN. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made
eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able
to receive it, let him receive it." (Matthew 19:10-12
KJV)
It makes common sense that certain kinds of ministry is
best done by a man who does not have a wife and family. Other
types of ministry require a man to be married.
"For this
cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the
things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I
had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of o! ne
wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly."
(Titus 1:! 5-6 KJV)
Josep! h Smith failed on this
qualification of an elder, even though your Scriptures repeatedly
call him an elder, even "first elder" and "presiding elder" (see
D&C 20:2, 21:1, 124:125). Why have you neglected hearing this
passage of Scripture (Titus 1:5-6) so that you might keep your
Mormonism?
Peace be with you. David Miller, Beverly Hills,
Florida.
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