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Old 05-02-2008, 05:57 PM   #1
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Default Reorganized -- Community of Christ

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Interesting, they have added and continue to add to the Doctrine and Covenants (their version).
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Interesting, they have added and continue to add to the Doctrine and Covenants (their version).
I note that the church that Emma (JS?) founded is in many ways more enlightened and forthright than the big LDS movement (I hesitate to say mainstream in this context), and lacks many of the skeletons. Apparently they have repudiated the Book of Mormon's racism and any other racism in JS's writings. They are all but agnostic on the Book of Mormon's origins, forthrightly recognizing the absurdity of any claim to historicity. They are aggresively eccumenical. Am I correct that they were not polygamists? Did they have a priesthood ban? If so, they seem to have explicitly addressed and repudiated and condemned that too. Not a bad legacy for Emma (and Joseph?).
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I note that the church that Emma (JS?) founded is in many ways more enlightened and forthright than the big LDS movement (I hesitate to say mainstream in this context), and lacks many of the skeletons. Apparently they have repudiated the Book of Mormon's racism and any other racism in JS's writings. They are all but agnostic on the Book of Mormon's origins, forthrightly recognizing the absurdity of any claim to historicity. They are aggresively eccumenical. Am I correct that they were not polygamists? Did they have a priesthood ban? If so, they seem to have explicitly addressed and repudiated and condemned that too. Not a bad legacy for Emma (and Joseph?).
I don't know if they had a priesthood ban, but they gave the priesthood to their women several years ago, I believe.
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I don't know if they had a priesthood ban, but they gave the priesthood to their women several years ago, I believe.
There you go. LDS Church, see your future. Maybe someday the sects will reunite.
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RLDS is going the way of the dodo bird.
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RLDS is going the way of the dodo bird.
Exactly. But at least they'll have some good feelings from SU as they slowly dissappear.
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The RLDS have at least two women apostles.

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The RLDS have at least two women apostles.

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Four. And one of them's the secretary. LOL.
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Four. And one of them's the secretary. LOL.
What's your point? They're not so enlightened after all? I know you know the secretary of a corporate board isn't the same thing as common usage. Lame, Tex.
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What's your point? They're not so enlightened after all? I know you know the secretary of a corporate board isn't the same thing as common usage. Lame, Tex.
Just trying to add a little levity. Sorry, I'll try to be more cranky.
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