2007-07-01 11:47:51 · 7 answers · asked by Wikisidr 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that would be the only reason i would join the morons!
2007-07-01 11:50:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, maybe for men that would be a reason, but I don't see why any girl would like that. I think a lot of the time, people follow whatever religion they follow because they want to feel like they belong to something, and they want to fit in. And most imporatantly, I think people follow religions because they want to feel better and relieve their stress. About mormons; I can totally understand why men would choose to follow mormons because of polygamy, but mormons were well known for polygamy a long long time ago, and now it doesn't happen so much probably because no women would ever join their religion if they still did that. The whole religion pretty much states that women are inferior to men and that the women should just do whatever they are told. Not a very good religion for women to follow in my opinion. But yes polygamy probably was a big reason men followed Joesph Smith. Not so much today though. Most people frown upon it.
2007-07-01 11:51:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. When it was introduced as a doctrine, more left the church than joined. Even Brigham Young, who later had many wives, said that he at first wished he were dead.
People assume that the plural marriage was practiced for the benefit of men. In fact, during the pioneer days it was the women who benefited. Having multiple wives means having multiple families. This is an economic challenge to the most prosperous man.
Utah was one of the first territories to give suffrage to women. The suffragettes in the East could understand how vigorously Mormon women defended plural marriage. As it was originally practiced, women gained in personal welfare, and spiritual growth. They had free choice about who they would marry. Today those splinter groups that practice polygamy use coercion and force to continue it.
2007-07-02 04:00:44 · answer #3 · answered by Isolde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Polygamy was not instituted until the early 1840s, some ten years after the church began.
The original followers to mormonism did so for numerous reasons: Smith provided simplistic answers to complex christian dogma, was a charismic person and orator, and inherited a congregation form Sidney Rigdon, a Baptist-Campbellite minister. He was a popular guy, especially to the ladies, a trait that a decade later got in into serious trouble and a bad rap for the church ever since.
Smith dabbled in social reconstruction in land and labor divisions (communism with Smith and god presiding), banking (and had to leave Ohio for unpaid debts), and establishing him as the center of attraction rather than having individual churches run themselves. Think of St Paul but with a more messianic personality.
2007-07-01 15:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not only because of polygamy. They followed because Joseph Smith being a charismatic and forceful individual.
2007-07-02 03:36:44 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The book of Mormon actually tells its followers to have monagamous marriages just like the Bible.
2007-07-01 11:54:36 · answer #6 · answered by Basil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish you'd stop asking questions. You're really not very smart, honey. =[
2007-07-01 11:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by SameTwo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋