Some of the brides are under age girls.
The man's name is Warren Jeffs and he is the leader of a religious cult in the US, with 10,000 followers, all of whom consider him a prophet.
His followers can only marry with his permission and he often sleeps with the bride first.
The FBI are after him, but his followers are hiding him.
Now you know why thinking people consider religious people as nut cases.
(The programme was on Channel 4, London region.July 19,2006. 10.50 PM)
2006-07-20 07:49:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you are shoked by such things, what about the Old Testament?
2006-07-20 10:41:00 · update #1
Perfectly normal if you read the bible.
God's instructions for taking a second wife. Exodus 21:10
David takes his second wife (Abigail) after God killed her husband (Nabal). He also, at the same time, took another wife (#3), Abinam. In the meantime, Saul gave Michal (his daughter and David's first wife) to another man. 1 Samuel 25:41-44
David just keeps getting more wives. God doesn't seem to mind a bit. 1 Samuel 30:5
"A bishop must be ... the husband of one wife." Apparently, it's OK for laymen to have several. 1 Timothy 3:2
"King Solomon loved many strange women. And he had 700 wives and 300 concubines." God didn't mind the number so much; it was their strangeness that he objected to. 1 Kings 11:1-3
Gideon had 70 sons (no one knows how many daughters) "for he had many wives Judges 8:30
I'll stop now.
2006-07-20 07:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is old news. He is a nut case, but all people of faith are not. I am an American and so is this guy, but I would hope the world does not view all Americans as Warren Jeffs.
Every tree has a few nuts in it.
PS We don't burn people on this side of the pond.
2006-07-20 07:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you really have to end an interesting piece of info with that judgemental crap...Now you know why thinking people consider religious people as nut cases? Religious people think...it's just that their thought process and theological reasoning are all bleeped up. Try to tone down the judgements, okay...PEACE!
2006-07-20 07:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What quite saddens me is at the same time as they say Mormon polygamists, no longer the sect they quite belong to. It places a nasty call on the LDS/Mormons, who do no longer prepare polygamy. Any guy with more desirable than one spouse is excommunicated in the present day for operating in the route of polygamy. yet, it does provide us a nasty attractiveness. That said, I do experience for those ladies who're in polygamous marriages. they quite don't have a own existence, all their judgements are a set selection. And polygamy is the kind of enormous element of their religions. a lady is anticipated to enter right into a polygamous relationship, regularly at a fairly youthful age, and he or she has no selection yet to finish that. i will no longer help yet imagine that it would want to do something to her in my opinion.
2016-11-06 21:36:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeffs is a sick pervert that wants to follow closely the nasty ideas of His hero Joesph Smith.. It's a Mormon teaching that has been used to justify perversion..
2006-07-20 07:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched a bit of that, he makes 60 million a year off his followers!!!! I didn't watch it all and turned over (to watch poker night live) when they were showing the raceist clips.
I personally think he should be shot
2006-07-20 08:06:25 · answer #6 · answered by jojitsui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sick? Me? Damn right I am! Sick as a parrot!
Trouble is, the poor guy has got 80 Mothers in law!
2006-07-20 07:52:51 · answer #7 · answered by The Lone Gunman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all religous people are nut cases, more then likely this guy is not religous at all he is just using it to get what he wants from those that do believe and are gullible
2006-07-20 07:53:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i watched it, apparently he makes 5 million a month from his followers, and as for the ladies, how could they let such a creep touch them?? its sick and disgusting and i hope they burn the b*****d if and when they catch him!
2006-07-20 07:53:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats why cults are dangerous, usually started by people who are self serving.
2006-07-20 07:56:15 · answer #10 · answered by angrylittlefisherman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋