Follow the prophets... at your own peril

[Hagoth]

Nothing will get you excommunicated from the modern LDS church faster than following the examples of our founding prophets and teaching their doctrines.

Tell me where I am wrong in that assumption.

[jfro18]

You forgot (living) between Follow and The.

But isn't it amazing how little kids sing this song in primary and yet never think about what doing so would've led them to do in the past? It's insane, really.

[blazerb]

You forgot (living) between Follow and The.

But isn't it amazing how little kids sing this song in primary and yet never think about what doing so would've led them to do in the past? It's insane, really.

I don't remember the "living" part of the quote being emphasized when I was young. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that word was only added after the internet allowed people to easily read the crazy things that past prophets have taught.

Here is my attempt at a new verse for the song.

Brigham was a prophet,
taught that Adam is our God
Orson Pratt did fight him,
the doctrine was too odd.

Now the theory's precepts
have been disavowed.
The heresy is too deadly
for the righteous crowd.

I found some other new verses here:https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... e_prophet/
and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... t_russell/

[moksha]

What if Mormons were to argue that Smith was helping God through the creation of Smith's own stories?

[Hagoth]

Can you imagine the mayhem if you stood up in the middle of sacrament meeting and started spontaneously speaking in tongues and prophesying like they did in Kirtland? I was in a ward where I guy got repeatedly called to repentance by the bishop for singing too loudly.

Or if a GA stood at the pulpit and bragged about how many more girls he could get than men half his age, like Brigham did?

[deacon blues]

Can you imagine the mayhem if you stood up in the middle of sacrament meeting and started spontaneously speaking in tongues and prophesying like they did in Kirtland? I was in a ward where I guy got repeatedly called to repentance by the bishop for singing too loudly.

Or if a GA stood at the pulpit and bragged about how many more girls he could get than men half his age, like Brigham did?

Brigham was only a product of his time and culture. But he did have a mean streak. If Thomas B. Marsh was the prodigal son, what does that make Brigham Young?

[moksha]

If Thomas B. Marsh was the prodigal son, what does that make Brigham Young?

If this was Lovecraftian lore, Brigham Young would be Cthulhu, and Marsh would be a character caught up in his mythos.

[Hagoth]

If Thomas B. Marsh was the prodigal son, what does that make Brigham Young?

If this was Lovecraftian lore, Brigham Young would be Cthulhu, and Marsh would be a character caught up in his mythos.

An inscription found on an ancient black monolith on Antarctica reveals that Brigham's secret temple name is Nyarlathotep The Crawling Chaos.