Joseph Smith sent men on long missions and then took their wives, isn't that sick?

Question

I mean how freaking low can you go!! And this from a man of God?? (allegedly) whatever!

Yes, I must admit B. Young pretty much put the M in Monster!

Answer 1

This is pointless... I could do the same thing and tell you to look up a thing called "The Crusades," "Salem Witch Trials," or "Jihads"... don't point out the flaws and hypocrisies in other's religion if you can't acknowledge your own.

Edit: Sorry, didn't have space after the link and the semicolon. They're fixed now

Answer 2

Joseph Smith may have had as many as 33 wives. The number is difficult to be certain of since the practice was not openly announced until many years after his death. There is very good evidence that many of these marriages were often spiritual in nature and not sexual. Genetic testing has proven that Joseph Smith had children only through his wife Emma. If he had sexual relations with any of the other women there is no evidence of it.

Helen Mar was believed to have married Joseph Smith when she was 14. From statements that she made while she was married to him and after his death, it seems as if there were no sexual relations and that it was simply a matter of spiritual connection between her and the Smith family. She once attended a singles dance and was surprised when some people considered that her marriage to Joseph should preclude her from such activities. She considered her marriage to be spiritual and not physical in nature.

Other wives indicated that nothing of Joseph Smith's dealings with them was anything immoral and that his actions were completely in accordance with what is to be expected of a prophet of God. It is open to interpretation about what that means exactly.

It is likely that Joseph Smith did have sexual relations with some of his other wives but there is no physical or written evidence of such.

I have not heard any evidence of him stealing someone's wife while they were on a mission from a respectable source. There are certainly more lies told about Joseph Smith than truths. Many lies are very obvious and despite proof they continue to be spread by opponents of the mormon church.

Spreading a lie is as dishonest as telling the lie in the first place. Opponents of the mormon church don't seem to be bothered by telling a lie if the result is hurting the mormon church.

Answer 3

What you are reffering to is polyandry (a woman living with more than one man). Even though this is a common accusation by ignorant anti-mormons such as yourself, there is no solid evidence for this, although Joseph was sealed to several women who were already married. Being sealed to a woman for the afterlife does not necessarily imply living together during mortality. Such a practice would have been even more controversial than polygamy itself, would have stirred more outrage, and would have definitely required explanation or justification in the document that officially introduces and justified the practice of polygamy, Doctrine and Covenants 132 - yet it is silent on this issue.

Answer 4

Brigham Young was worse. See Mountain Meadows Massacre amoung other attrocities. Plus Brigham Young claimed Joseph Smith told him to go west. A few years ago they found some papers of Smith's that prove that Young lied about that.

Answer 5

Yes that is sick - as well as that whole "mormonism" thing he started. *shakes head* He was no man of God! Maybe he thought he was, but if he lived like that and if you look at what God calls a godly man to be, Joseph Smith would not be one of them.

Answer 6

Joseph Smith was a God-forsaken man. His polygamy (right word, right?) ways were extremely sick. And if there is a God, this man had nothing to do with Him.

Answer 7

You loose credibility once you make the most of such subjective words as "seduced them." you do not realize even as, why, how polygamy became used in the early LDS Church. even as some plural marriages DID contain the procreation of offspring, plural marriages with Joseph Smith and some different early church leaders did not. in truth, they were finished in call in basic terms, with the intention to facilitate a scared ordinance observed as "sealing" the position the guy and female are sealed mutually previous lack of life. a call for in the LDS Church for someone to succeed in the utmost degree of heaven, is they ought to receive this "sealing" and this ordinance became finished in call in basic terms so as that those women human beings ought to receive the requirement to enter the utmost aspect of heaven. you'll word, that after all of the analyze, each and every of the claims (and admissions as you talk about) that Joseph Smith did have plural sealings to others, that no longer EVEN once became there each and every any declare of offspring, or the different data that those plural marriages or sealings were ever sexual. there is not any data by using the undeniable fact that became no longer their purpose. Their purpose became in simple terms what became reported above.

Answer 8

I think you are having some serious (and incorrect) issues about Jospeh Smith.
Where is your proof? Did it come from an anti-mormon site? Hmmmmm........
You seriously need to let it go.

Answer 9

Not a real man of god if you look at actions based on his words. Where was god at in his life???????

Answer 10

Yup. Now why would anyone want to follow a "religion" started by such a man...?