[–] 13600179? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Joseph Smith (not John) started out in the New England area, and as the LDS church was growing, they moved more west. He was killed by a mob in Illinois (or near there), after which Brigham Young became the 2nd prophet (and some break-away groups formed over dispute on who the rightful prophet should be after Smith). Young lead the Mormon pioneers further West until they got to the Salt Lake Valley, and founded Salt Lake City. Members were told to settle lands further north and south. Also, a lot of missionaries were sent to Europe, mostly England. They then made the trek across the country to Utah (though it was more Deseret back then). That's the basic gist of why there is a lot of British in Utah and surrounding.
A lot of my family is Mormon, and ancestors on my mother's side were part of the Mormon pioneers back then. I am mostly of British ancestry, so I fit that British bill shown on the map.
[–] 13600302? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Dang it. So who is the dude who stared into the black hat and wrote the tablets? Ugh.
That you just posted sounds like what I’ve heard before. I thought that dude got lynched near the Arkansas Area. But you might be closer.
Isn’t there now a riff between the LSD and MLSD groups? With one going all wives andnteh others more main stream?
Oh I love ripping on the church. The people - nah, I’ve met too many good Mormons (weird about cola though) and missionaries too. I like how they pair up to stay legit. Did you have to go missionary overseas to repent for your high school days sin? A good buddy of mine back then ended up in France. I was part of his sinning :-) am proud of getting him to drink cola, dancing and what else was there ??? No alcohol or bad shit just normal kid shit.
[–] 13600453? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Joseph was said to have translated the golden plates, which is what the hat stuff was. That's what the Book of Mormon is said to have come from. The Doctrine and Covenants were scripture written by the prophets of the LDS church, mostly from the early ones (though there was a chapter written in the 1950s or around that time). The Pearl of Great Price was a few extra things that Joseph was said to have translated. These along with the bible (King James version) make up the scripture for the LDS church.
The polygamists are a definite split from the main LDS church. I really have never heard anything good from Mormons about them. They mostly are in Southern Utah and Northern Nevada though. My family really can rail on them too, which is funny. Especially my grandmother, who is the stereotypical sweet old grandma that cooks a lot. She gets really upset over them. Also one of my uncles lives in Cedar City (southern Utah on I-15) and they are getting a lot of the polygamists moving in there. They say the polygamists abuse the welfare and food stamp system since legally only one of the wives is married. The rest are single moms, so they can exploit that.
I don't understand what you mean about the cola stuff though. Mormons drink lots of soda instead of drinking alcohol. No tea and coffee too. Also there are dances held at churches for high schoolers usually, those it is pretty tame dancing.
I left the church in the last bit of my senior year of HS. Honestly, it was the thing that lead be to research everything, which lead me to voat and other similar places. It was my first redpill. That did mean I didn't end up going on a mission, which was honestly a really good thing for me since my personality is very averse to that sort of thing. I guess I am still a member since I never got my name removed from their records, so Im just really inactive.
Even being an ex-mormon, I love it here in Utah. Ive never had problems with members even after I left, which pretty much all of my neighbors I know are Mormon. Its not like my morals have really changed much from the church morals though, so Im still a better mormon than some mormons haha.