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The single largest problem with Mormonism is their claim to have modern prophets and modern revelation. While it would seem that if the Mormon's claims of Joseph Smith seeing God and Jesus Christ were true then all the doctrine that came from the mouths of prophets would ring true through all time and all eternity.

However it must be noted that Mormon prophets claimed that polygamy was the only way to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Though prior to gaining statehood they stopped practicing polygamy. They do continue to believe, participate, and teach that polygamy is still a doctrine of the Mormon Church. It is evident by men being able to be married or sealed to more than one woman in the Mormon Temple. This occurs through the death of a wife or if she is civilly divorced. Civilly divorced men can marry more than one woman in the Mormon Temple, but a woman can only marry one man, period.

Women who die without getting married are taught that they will be sealed in the Mormon Temple to a worthy male and become one of his eternal wives. They are wooed with stories of being sealed to ancient Book of Mormon, Nephite Warriors. Thus the modern revelation that polygamy is divine is still practiced in theory and was never been renounced. It has just simply ceased to be practiced.

Modern prophets and modern revelation also brought extreme racism to the Mormon Church through Brigham Young, the second church president and prophet. Brigham Young taught that the African race and their black skin was the "mark of Cain". He went on to say that Cain and his descendants would never enjoy the full blessings on this earth of church membership. The men would not be permitted to to hold the Mormon Priesthood and thus all Mormon temple marriages and rituals would be denied to blacks.

President Brigham Young also taught that interracial marriages were evil and to kill the offspring of such couplings would be desirable in the eyes of God. In 1978 when the Mormon Prophet changed course on blacks in the Mormon Church they did not deny the doctrinal teachings of Brigham Young and all the racist apostles, prophets, and local church leaders. They just simply stopped practicing racism.

These are just two of the areas where Mormon Prophets, the modern day Moses of the Mormon's erred. The problem as the church discovered in 1998 when they researched the possibility of denying these teachings, was that to deny these modern revelations would open the door for all the fables the church has built their power on, and there by creating their own emergency exit for questioning members.

Members of the Mormon Church have an uncanny ability, like Scientologist, to embrace the supernatural. To believe the stories of the first Mormon Prophet requires one to walk into the Twilight Zone. However, to sustain as Modern Prophets, a group of men that are essentially bigots, racist, and philanderers is purely psychedelic thinking.

The examples of false doctrines uttered by Mormon Prophets is huge and covers every thing from evolution to the "Adam is God Theory". It would seem to me that Mormon's would be fine if they just ditched all that magical thinking and became a protestant church.

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