Did you here about this saying?

Question

Don't believe everything you hear on the internet (when I learned about the Mormon religion I looked it up on the encyclopedia Almanac sites like that

Answer 1

Do not believe in everything you hear, period.+

Answer 2

I hered it all right. The LDS church is having a devil of a public relations battle now that anyone with a computer can find out anything they want about blacks being barred from the priesthood, Joseph Smith marrying women who were simultaneously married to other men, the existing papyri saying nothing close to what you find written in the Book of Abraham, etc.

If you think any of these facts are made up, ask a church historian. Better yet, read _Rough Stone Rolling_, written by a former history professor and practicing Latter-day Saint who has served as a patriarch (not an anti-Mormon, but a guy who knows better than to avoid historical facts).

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781400042708&itm=1

Answer 3

Last time I checked , we were at war with the Taliban. Why should we let one of their cousins inti the White House?

This one happened 150 years ago but I think its still relevant because Mitt Romneys church pardoned a terrorist mass murderer of Americans.

It was September 11, 1857. A wagon train of 160 settlers on their way to California was massacred by a bunch of Mormons dressed in Indian clothes. 17 children under the age of 8 were spared and lived to tell their story.
1st. They dressed as Indians but after five days they changed tactics.
2nd. Then they went a bit away ,dressed back into normal clothes and acted like the Rescue Party who had negotiated a deal with the"Indians".
3rd, Then confiscated all the guns as part of the deal for "saving" the travellers and Mormon dissidents( who were the reason for the attack in the first place).
4th. Took everybody off a mile or so and shot them all. 2 men got away but were eventually tracked down and killed a day or so later.
5th. Took the 17 children they had not killed back with them to Salt Lake City.
6th. Got away with it. After a publicized trial, with the childrens own testimony admitted into the court, only 1 man was convicted and shot, John D. Lee. ( pardoned by Church 1960)

It ended up being called the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The first time in U.S. history that U.S. citizens were massacred on U.S. soil by religious wackos. This event is even more significant because the total U.S. population at the time was much smaller.(I dont know the exact numbers, maybe only 30 million or so) In todays numbers it would be around 1400 dead

Answer 4

I refer to the following links as informative, not anti-doctrinal, regarding Native American origins. Three are universities who have no connection with either the church or BYU:

http://cita.chattanooga.org/mtdna.html
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/peopling_siberia.html
http://www.psc.edu/science/Merri/merri.html
http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmnh/origin.htm

BYU and the Maxwell Institute are simply the 'intellectual' arms of the mormon church, and they are the only ones who are allowed to think (and get paid by your tithing dollars) . However, their answer better support doctrine or it's unemployment and excommunication.

Answer 5

I don't believe everything I hear.

gw

Answer 6

As long as their are references and I can get my hands on them.