After two columns (I | II) on the subject of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), I am getting lots of requests from Mormons to stop writing about “their” religion. Some are even threatening to stop reading my columns if I don’t stop criticizing “their” religion. But, since I started reading about LDS at “their” request it looks like “they” will have to endure just one more column.
After I was asked to read about (and consider converting to) Mormonism, I came across some rather disturbing accusations against Joseph Smith, Jr. Were he alive today, I would submit the following true/false test to the founder of Mormonism:
1. True or False. Among your 33 well-documented plural wives, there were close to a dozen unions in which the wife was already married to another man.
2. True or False. In your lifetime, you married four different pairs of sisters.
3. True or False. You once married a young woman and also married her mother.
4. True or False. At least one of your plural wives was as young as fourteen.
5. True or False. Some of your marriages were the result of religious coercion secured only after you told the prospective bride that marrying you would ensure the bride’s place in heaven.
6. True or False. You also coerced teenagers into marrying you by promising their families a place in heaven.
7. True or False. You kept fourteen-year-old Helen Mar Kimball from marrying her sweetheart Horace Whitney because you wanted to marry the teenager instead.
8. True or False. You also asked Helen’s father Heber C. Kimball to give you his wife.
9. True or False. Before you eventually married Helen, you gave her a 24-hour deadline to give in to your offer of a place in heaven.
10. True or False. Two years after your death, Helen married her old sweetheart Horace Whitney.
11. True or False. The marriage between Helen and Horace was only temporary because Helen was already sealed by marriage to you for eternity.
12. True or False. Horace Whitney was sealed to an already dead Mormon woman before his “temporary” marriage to Helen.
13. True or False. After her mother died, you approached teenager Lucy Walker with a command that she marry you with the threat of eternal damnation as the punishment if she refused.
14. True or False. The year before you died, you said the following to Lucy: “I will give you until tomorrow to decide (whether to marry me). If you reject this message the gate will be closed forever against you.”
15. True or False. The Book of Mormon, which you transcribed from the Golden plates given to you by the Angel Moroni says the following: “Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, Saith the Lord.” (Jacob 2:24).
16. True or False. The Book of Mormon, which you transcribed from the Golden plates given to you by the Angel Moroni also says the following: “Hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none.” (Jacob 2:27).
It doesn’t seem to make sense to ask questions of a dead man unless you’ve read the following words by Joseph Smith, Jr., taken from his famous Follett Discourse:
“…(W)hen I get my kingdom, I shall present it to my father, so that he may obtain kingdom among kingdom, and it will exalt him in glory. He will then take a higher exaltation, and I will take his place, and thereby become exalted myself.”
At first, I wondered why Mormons were asking me not to broach the subject of Smith’s polygamy. After all, he was a polygamist who transcribed – from sacred Golden plates, no less – pointed criticism of others for the sin of polygamy. So, why shouldn’t a non-polygamist like me criticize a man for polygamy?
Of course, the answer is that some Mormons have decided that Joseph Smith is a God. In other words, they have ceased to be Christian.
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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