MoMo Doctrin

Doctrin. For MoMos.

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“I am scripture.”

- MoMo Apostle David A. Bednar

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“Just go ahead and do as Brigham [Young] wants you to...if he turns you off, I will take you on.”

- MoMo Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., in an attempt to coerce 18-year-old Martha Brotherton into adulterous relationships.

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“It was reported to me that some of the brethren had been drinking whiskey...and [I] gave them a couple dollars, with directions to replenish the bottle to stimulate them in the fatigues of their sleepless journey.”

- Momo Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., ten years after receiving divine revelation to abstain from alcohol. 

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“There are no homosexual members of the church.”

- MoMo Apostle David A. Bednar, exhibiting his typical creepiness.

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“There have been a succession of frauds worked by predominately Mormon entrepreneurs upon predominately Mormon victims.”

- MoMo Apostle Dallin H. Oaks

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“That historian or scholar...who chooses to follow the tenets of his profession, regardless of how they may injure the Church or destroy the faith of those not ready for ‘advanced history,’ is himself in spiritual jeopardy. If that one is a member of the Church, he has broken his covenants and will be accountable.”

- MoMo Apostle Boyd K. Packer

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“The Book of Mormon has a lot of nineteenth-century Protestant material in it, both in terms of theology and of wording.”

- MoMo Historian and Patriarch Richard Bushman

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“If a faith will not bear to be investigated; if its preachers and professors are afraid to have it examined, their foundation must be very weak.”

- MoMo Apostle George A. Smith

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“Thou shalt have power to translate thyself from one planet to another; and power to go to the moon if thou so desire.”

- MoMo Patriarch Joseph Smith Sr., in patriarchal blessing to future MoMo Prophet Lorenzo Snow

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“My mobile phone is like a seer stone.”

- MoMo Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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“...Hyrum [Smith] called one day and invited me for the next day to a reconciliation dinner as he called it, to his house. He said Joseph would come, too. “...That very same evening of the day on which Hyrum had been to my house inviting me, my detective told me that they had conceived the plan to poison me at the reconciliation dinner. “...You may imagine that I didn’t regret having declined that amiable invitation.”

- MoMo Second Counselor in the First Presidency, William Law

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“I rode with Joseph Smith...we had been drinking pretty freely; I drank brandy, he brandy and cider, both together; and when we arrived at Painesville, we drank again; and when we arrived at Kirtland, we were very drunk.”

- MoMo Assistant President of the Church, John C. Bennett, four years after receiving the revelation to abstain from alcohol

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“Joseph Smith would destroy his best friend for the sake of a few hundred dollars...He was a tyrant; self-exaltation and gratification of his grosser passions with an entire disregard of others rights.”

- MoMo Second Counselor in the First Presidency, William Law

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“We need the inspired help of others to avoid deceiving ourselves.”

- MoMo Apostle Robert D. Hales

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“Please avoid, even by implication, involving the Church in political issues. It is so easy, if we are not careful, to project our personal preferences as the position of the Church on an issue.”

- MoMo Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, as if speaking to his successors directly.

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“We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.”

- MoMo Apostle Dallin H. Oaks

[ellie-thoughts]

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Not just social media, but the information age in general. These are people who only recently accepted the fact that they can no longer control the narrative of their fraudulent organization.