tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172451149432147710.post1557589016414779489..comments2023-05-10T10:41:32.689-04:00Comments on Against the Greater Light: Polygamy BoondoggleryAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14724409661360473452noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172451149432147710.post-89223644858878047822019-06-25T19:28:54.546-04:002019-06-25T19:28:54.546-04:00I believe the usual response to that particular ho...I believe the usual response to that particular hot mess is that we don't really know how it will all work in the afterlife, but that God is loving so we're sure he'll have a good solution.<br /><br />Call me crazy, but with something so important as the eternal status of my personal relationships with my family members, I think wanting to know exactly how it's supposed to work is perfectly reasonable. And a loving god would know that. And he'd provide clarifying details so that people like your mom don't have to wonder which, if any, of their loved ones might not be with them once all the sealings are unpretzeled.<br /><br />You bring up a point that demonstrates once again that Mormonism is designed for what it considers normal and does a piss-poor job of explaining how anything outside its own parameters fit into the plan.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724409661360473452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172451149432147710.post-4559328363085623782019-06-25T17:52:39.735-04:002019-06-25T17:52:39.735-04:00Nice analysis as usual, Alex. I find it ironic th...Nice analysis as usual, Alex. I find it ironic that the church hammers on their claim that "marriage is one woman and one man," as set forth in their Proclamation on the Family. Dallin Oaks is constantly trying to discredit gay marriage or any other non-conforming relationship, at the same time that he, and others in the church, quietly get themselves sealed to more than one woman. So they will be practicing polygamy in the hereafter. Dallin Oaks is sealed to his first wife who is deceased, and his current wife. As you point out, Brigham Young claimed polygamy was absolutely necessary for celestial glory, yet now the church practices zero tolerance for anyone practicing polygamy with living wives. Carol Lynn Pearson's excellent book "The Ghost of Polygamy" points out the damage that this doctrine still wreaks upon young widows who were sealed to their first husbands. Any children they have with a subsequent husband are not sealed to the biological father, but to the first, deceased husband. Is that the plan of a loving god? I think not. It was the case for my mother's parents. My mother is technically sealed to her mother's first husband who died before my mother was born. So her biological dad that raised and supported her, knew he would not be with her through eternity because he wasn't sealed to her. It's a hot mess. Zehliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16784359821559531208noreply@blogger.com