Does anyone know any SECRETS about Mormonism?

Question

I've heard that they have secret rituals in the Temple when they get married. I've also heard there are tunnels all over Salt Lake that lead clear from the Temple to their vault in the mountains. There is a lot of interesting goings on in that church...do you know anything else?

Answer 1

I married my wife in a Mormon Temple in 1971. In the ceremony they tell you that the keys signs and penalties they give you, as you complete your endowment, are guarded by sacred oaths of secrecy. The Church has changed the ceremony at least once since then so I am not sure what they say now. If what they are doing now is the right stuff I don't know how the early Mormon leaders made it to the 3rd level of the celestial kingdom, or is it the other way around and today's Mormon can't make it??? Jim

Answer 2

Ooooooo...sounds interesting....hopefully you don't believe everything you hear...most of it will be false or exaggerated.
We perform SACRED, not secret, ordinances in the temple that are essential for returning to live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Also, I think the "tunnels" you are referring to are some underneath the temple to go to parking. AND there is a sort of "tunnel" (but really it's part of the construction) to walk over to the temple underground. The members go in the building to the north of the temple, present their recommend, then walk downstairs and over to the temple underground then go upstairs in to the temple.
(Since the SLC temple area is a visitors place, there has to be some way for the worthy members to get into it without just going in the outside doors.)
Never heard of some vault in the mountains...maybe there is???

Answer 3

Don't know actual secrets, just things not normally publically discussed or known.
1. They are good people.
2. They do have some closed ceremonies to people not of Latter Day Saints faith.
3. They have a list of everyone and if you want to know about your family history, they have it. They do this in hopes of granting the family a place in Heaven. (Nothing wrong in this).
4. Very young men are called Elders and work together and always wear white shirts. They are a greatly interesting group of young men.

Your above information may be true but I don't know about that. It is a shame that all denominations do not have something like this to protect us from terrorists.

Not a mormon, but my former methodist pastor used to be a mormon and told us a lot of the mormon faith.

Answer 4

They don't have much good to say about black people, that's for sure:

"Had I anything to do with the ***** , I would confine them by strict law to their own species and put them on a national equalization.'' Prophet Jos. Smith

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, sad, low in their habits, wild, and seemingly without the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so." Brother Brigham Young

"...after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation a upon a the earth as well as God;.. " JOHN TAYLOR 3rd Prophet and President

"I would not want you to believe that we bear any animosity toward the *****. "Darkies" are wonderful people, and they have their place in our church."

"Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race.

"... and they have been 'despised among all people.' This doctrine did not originate with President Brigham Young but was taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith ..." JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH 10th Prophet and President

The negroes are not equal with other races when the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned..."

...As a result of his rebellion, Cain was cursed with a dark skin; he became the father of the negroes"

"Cain Ham, and the whole ***** race have been cursed with a black skin, the mark of Cain, so they can be identified as a caste apart, a people with whom the other descendants of Adam should not intermarry." BRUCE R. McCONKIE of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles

"At least in the cases of the Lamanites and the negroes we have the definite word of the Lord Himself that He placed a dark skin upon them as a curse - as a punishment and as a sign to all others.

" If there is one drop of ***** blood in my children, as I have read to you, they receive the curse, There isn't any argument, therefore, as to intermarriage with the *****, is there? "Now we are generous with the *****. We are willing that the ***** have the highest kind of education. I would be willing to let every ***** drive a Cadillac if they could afford it. MARK E. PETERSON of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles

Answer 5

"The more I look at the different ways people approach things, the more similarities I find. It makes me think that if we could all just get together and discuss our similarities, instead of always stressing the differences, we might find we have a lot more in common than we think." The Search, by John M. Eddinger.

Answer 6

Yea, you can be "sealed" into the Mormon faith.

My grandparents, very strict Mormons, had me and my brother sealed. My mom was not Mormon, my dad was, so they did not have a temple ceremony. So my grandparents, did a "stand in" ceremony in the temple, withou my parents, so they would be "sealed" together into Heaven.

Answer 7

People love to make up lies about religions they don't understand. There are no secrets. Go to www.LDS.org for information. And for the guy above me that's really sick. Do you really think that there would be over 12 million members of the LDS church if that was true. We don't even have priests.

Answer 8

I know they changed some wording in their regulations to make it OK for black people to be Mormons.

I think that the male priests get to look at the women naked in some of their rituals but I'm not sure.

Answer 9

Anyone who creates secrets to keep really has no secret that I would care to know...or even not know. It just doesn't make any difference to me whether I know them or not. I won't stop them from telling their secrets to me; I won't object to their hiding them from me. Nor is it worth my effort to become a Mormon to learn them.

Answer 10

When Grassy liven in Utah

One co-worker, a non-mormon told Grassy that there is such an emphasis on conception that the lay priest will visit the young married couple regularly after marriage asking them and reporting back as to why she was not pregnant yet. At the end of two years if the wife was not pregnant then the lay priest would sleep with her and impregnate her.

Grassy guesses that why they called him a lay priest. :)