No experience with modern day Mormonism but i do like the theory that Joseph Smith was a ceremonial magician. I think John King did a decent interview on the topic. But yeah LDS probably mostly scam.Its always kinda looked like a scam to me tbh. What do you guys think?
Mostly agree but i was more asking if their religion has ang legitamacy in the occult senseTry reading their "Book of Mormon." Like Mark Twain remarked, "If it left out the phrase 'And it came to pass,' the thing would be a pamphlet." Uninspired inspired text, as it were. Still and all we would do well to remember the exchange between Woodrow and Gus in Lonesome Dove. Woodrow: "Them Mormon's are strange folks. They got a prophet who an angel gave this Holy Book to, see?" Gus:"Oh. Just like all them other churches."
To me it looks like another religion made-up so those who created it will have control over easilly swayed people.Its always kinda looked like a scam to me tbh. What do you guys think?
Maybe, maybe not, as religion tends to be a personal thing that may or may not affect an individual.I, as an atheist(or agnostic, or irreligious...labels are confusing sometimes), see this specific religioni was more asking if their religion has ang legitamacy in the occult sense
No more than any other Nazarene creed. I have never heard of any Mormon mystic of stature. I'm from Montana and have spent a lot of time in the West where there are more Mormons than prairie dogs (including some cousins of mine.) There are various splinter groups of Mormons back in the hills and out in the desert. Magick does not seem to be much of a sideline. Mormonism's roots in the Second Great Awakening tends to act an an innoculation against magick. Joseph Smith wrote a lot about "the Spirit" (Holy Spirit.) But said spirit seems to have been the peculiar property of the Church's "prophet," and not for popular evocation.Mostly agree but i was more asking if their religion has ang legitamacy in the occult sense
Everything revolving around Abrahamic Religions are/ is a scam.
Its always kinda looked like a scam to me tbh. What do you guys think?
Do you mean the Mormons actually researched the peoples in question? Or did they just make room for them in the Mormon mythos? The Mormons have some novel notions about Native American origins for instance, but those notions are pretty much an Evidence Lite mind-beverage.Everything? Good grief. Thanks for letting me know. Murder, Rape, Theft, and Lying... my favorite vices are back on the menu!
^^ Sarcasm ^^
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Mormons are the best resource / repository of information regarding the untied cultural and spritiual roots of the polynesian peoples. That's pretty cool.
The other stuff? I'm not a fan.
IMO most of the monotheistic religions divide into two parts: 1) A moral code (don't murder, don't sleep with your sister etc.) and 2) a half-assed way to do magic to 'make things happen'.Mostly agree but i was more asking if their religion has any legitamacy in the occult sense