We do not drink coffee, tea, or alcohol. Nor do we smoke or use illegal drugs. We generally try to take care of our bodies, hardly a point to criticize.
No, we cannot marry 12 women, just one.
Visit www.mormon.org or send me an e-mail if you have any other questions.
2006-07-31 08:11:39
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answered by whapingmon 4
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sure, they CAN drink coffee. But then they go against their teachings, and they're denied many of the privileges they give other LDS people (like going to the temple, for example). Sure, they CAN marry 12 (good luck finding 12 women okay with that!), but then they're kicked out of the LDS church and are arrested by federal law.
The LDS faith teaches to avoid caffine because is a drug that can become addictive with too much use. Plus, I've found that if you abstain from caffine for a long time, it has more of an effect on your body, making it more useful for studying late at night, driving at night, etc. Coffee, namely, is taught to never be used because it is a "hot drink". If you've ever talked to people that have been drinking scalding coffee for a long time, you'll know why. It litterally scalds the pharynx, namely the vocal chords. Mabye the abstaining from coffee has something to do with the fame and prestige their tabernacle chior has...
As for the polygamy thing, that has long since been done away with. At least in the U.S. In many cultures it is still practiced, just as socially acceptable as alcohol is here in the U.S. It started being practiced because as the church was starting up, the men would often be killed in labor, persecution, and in sickness; especially while walking from their homes to Utah. The women were more often watching the children at home, and luckily were less of a target for murdering the mormons. The men has much less of a life-expectancy rate, making there a significant number of women, and much less men. In order for all to marry someone, the fathers would have to marry more than one woman. At least, that's the reason we carnally and see with our worldly eyes and ideas. God has his own reasons for everything.
2006-08-01 04:42:28
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answered by trentman22 2
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Used to marry many women. Mormons do not marry multiple women any more except for a few that follow the Old ways. I am not a Mormon but I know that.
2006-07-31 01:58:41
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answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7
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The best thing to add to a bologne samich is some Moroni ..
I have found Mormons nice people ... and true ..lol .. the majority of them backed out away from their early doctrine that the "multiple concubine" thing was the "true path" to heaven ..As it became apparent that Utah would not become part of the US unless they backed away from it .. and it is a minority fringe that still adheres to this practice- perhaps though actually less patriotic and more "truly" Mormon than their peers of "LDS" ..
But:
Hmm .. Joseph Smith "screed" this book which he claimed had a Semitic Phoenician origin in New York State ... screed, mind you- much like the Crystal gazing of the midaeval magus John Dee (Queen Elizabeth's Court astrologer and magus) ... lol
The book itself has absolutely no flow with Torah or Hebrew from all I can tell .. and I spent some time looking .. It is singularly the most ludicrous of modern religions I have looked into (excepting perhaps Scientology) .. and both the political power and the global status of evangelism and missionaries is quite alarming regarding this ...Yet the "Christian" auspices that Joseph Smith cloaked his "revelation" in, as well as the Mormon religion's ability to mutate .. seem to protect it from many focused scrutinies .. To me, as its link to Judaeochristian cosmogeny is a strange deluded and gibberish filled farce .. this also is part of how it perpetuates itself .. as it is hard to logically analyze something so filled with gibberish as the Book of Mormon is ... It concocts a prechristian historical manifestation of tribes of Christ , physically dating them prior to the advent .. yet trying to mimic the St James Old Testament language describing the histories of the tribes of Israel ... Even though I'm not "Christian" in considering my New Testament .. I at least find it readily apparent throughout the New Testament that it is actually linked in its manifestation with "sacred" Semitic scriptures .. The Book of Mormon is entirely a 19th century Occidental new dispensation Puritan movement that penned it's "revealed" texts divorced of any Hebraic understandings ...
2006-07-31 02:25:02
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answered by gmonkai 4
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Michael dated many black women persons. Stephanie generators Diana Ross Janelle Commissiong Shana Mangatal Grace Rwamanba Blanket mom's is black besides he's had crushes on Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Vanessa Williams, Sade, Tatiana Thumbzten, Kelly Rowland... He also left his little ones to a black lady in his will -- Diana Ross, who develop into the love of his existence and muse to multiple his songs (remember The Time and grimy Diana easily everyone?) -- he obviously loved the sistas plenty.
2016-11-27 01:04:39
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answered by baskind 4
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Yes drinking caffeine is against their religion, and the modern day Mormon doesn't believe in more than 1 wife.
2006-07-31 02:00:56
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answered by Granny 1 7
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We can do whatever we want just like anyone else, but we are taught to take care of our bodies, by limiting what we consume, such as coffee, tea, alcohol, illegal drugs, excessive meat. We do not practice polygamy. That stopped in the late 19th century.
2006-07-31 10:27:39
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answered by Senator John McClain 6
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Yes, but they can only marry women who work at coffee shops. Thus the irony.
2006-07-31 01:58:34
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answered by Anonymous
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As long as they don't dance at the reception.
2006-07-31 01:57:25
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answered by Anonymous
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I suggest you enlighten yourself LDS.org should help.
2006-07-31 01:58:41
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answered by southforty1961 3
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