Sentences with phrase «fundamentalist mormon»

My grandfather had grown up in a fundamentalist Mormon family, and he always believed in the polygamist teachings of Joseph Smith.

But I can't help it — I'm so fascinated by this show that I've seen every episode twice (including the honeymoon special), researched fundamentalist Mormon wedding rituals, and dreamed of visiting the cake tasting bakery.

In fundamentalist Mormon groups, the senior member of a priesthood council traditionally assumes the position of prophet, Wilde said.

Wilde, 74, was raised in the mainstream LDS Church but became part of the fundamentalist Mormon movement and the second wife in a plural marriage.

The phrase «fundamentalist mormon» is contradictory because there is NOT A SINGLE MORMON who practices polygamy.

Today, there are a handful of fundamentalist Mormon groups, as well as polygamous families who call themselves independent.

Polygamist husbands in the FLDS & fundamentalist Mormon communities don't earn enough to support their wives and children: many husbands do not work at all, but merely preside over the family and conduct Church business.

However, in FLDS & fundamentalist Mormon communities, there is the phenomenon of the so - called «Lost Boys» who are the discarded young men who can never find a wife within the community, because the elders take so many wives.

The FLDS Church, with a membership of no more than 10,000, has seized headlines and spread an image of fundamentalist Mormon women wearing pastel prairie - style dresses and updos.

Going where no reality show cameras had gone before, TLC this fall aired «Sister Wives,» a television series that invited voyeurs into the lives of a fundamentalist Mormon family that practices polygamy.

So the Sister Wives are fundamentalist mormons not to be confused with the FLDS church?

So called «fundamentalist mormons» are only named so themselves.

Not exact matches

Of the ones for which I have primary information about a belief system, the range includes athiest, agnostic, mormon, hindi, evangelical fundamentalist, alternate Protestant, mainline Protestant, Russian Orthodox, Jewish and Roman Catholic.

I will say, though, that no «fundamentalist» Mormon would sanction the marriages you're referencing, which stand in direct opposition to the principles of their Church, which absolutely insists upon upholding the law of the land.

The fundamentalist views are couched in strong terms implying they are completely factual, but the Mormon side is peppered with words like «claimed.»

There is no central authority for all Mormon fundamentalists and the viewpoints and practices of individual groups vary.

[7] The largest Mormon fundamentalist groups are the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints (FLDS Church) and the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB).

Mormon fundamentalism (also called fundamentalist Mormonism) is a belief in the validity of selected fundamental aspects of Mormonism as taught and practiced in the nineteenth century, particularly during the administration of Brigham Young, an early president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church).

I can not WAIT till election day... so I can watch all those Christian fundamentalist, redneck, anti-Obamacare, anti-science Tea Party fanatics try and wiggle their way out of voting for a pro-Obamacare, Mormon, flip - floping, Liberal Republican Romney.

Today, the LDS Church will excommunicate any of its members who practice plural marriage or who otherwise closely associate themselves with Mormon fundamentalist practices.

As a practicing Mormon, I would just like to clarify something for the non-Mormon reader: there is no such thing as a «fundamentalist» Mormon, or any other shade of mormonism.

Many LDS Church members, in fact, object to these people calling themselves fundamentalist «Mormons» as they feel there is nothing Mormon about them.

Mormon fundamentalists seek to uphold tenets and practices no longer held by mainstream Mormons (members of the LDS Church).

Mormon fundamentalists believe that these and other principles were wrongly abandoned or changed by the LDS Church in its efforts to become reconciled with mainstream American society.

The answer to the Mormon question lies with the right wing Christian fundamentalists.

The Book of Mormon places the birth of Jesus in Jerusalem, much to the delight of biblical fundamentalists who use such discrepancies to score debating points.

I brought up the Book of Mormon's placement of the birth of Jesus to show how trivial some fundamentalist criticism of Mormonism is, but the virgin birth is another matter altogether» precisely because Mormon metaphysics tries to close the gap between spirit and matter.

It is actually quite funny in an ironic way that the fundamentalist right who have been notably intolerant are now endorsing a Mormon.

While most of these can be described as splinter groups of small membership and minimal importance, there are presently two major exceptions, the new Mormon fundamentalists and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Oh, also, just to add, even though the LDS church has worked hard to legitimize itself in the eyes of many americans, the evangelical christian fundamentalists consider the LDS teaching such a grave perversion of the christian faith (holy trinity issue, extra bible (Book of Mormon), etc.) that it drives them absolutely nuts whenever Mormons try to pass themselves as «christians.»

Watching ultraconservative fundamentalist Republicans» faces as they try to bring themselves to vote for Mitt the Magic Mormon (with his history of por - choice and universal health care) = comedy event of the decade!

Seems like fundamentalists would be all over this Mormon thing.

Mormon Fundamentalists, however, believe that acceptance into the American mainstream came at way too high a price.

All but a handful of the town's residents are Mormon Fundamentalists.

Mormon Fundamentalists probably cite Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants more than any other piece of LDS scripture.

Many fundamentalists are convinced that the one mighty and strong is already here on earth among them, «holding the scepter of power in his hand,» and that very soon now he will lead the Mormon Church back onto the right path and restore Joseph's «most holy and important doctrine.»

His new book, Under the Banner of Heaven, focuses on two Mormon fundamentalist brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty who killed their sister - in - law and her 15 - month - old daughter because, they said, God told them to do it.

In A Killing in Zion, Salt Lake City deputy sheriff Art Oveson is charged with apprehending and arresting members of a Mormon fundamentalist sect who commit the crime of polygamy.

What started off as a story about Mormon fundamentalists in Utah quickly turned into a trashy novel full of every Mormon stereotype ever created.

Nevertheless, Mormons and those who call themselves Mormon Fundamentalists (or FLDS) believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.

But if both proudly refer to themselves as the Lord's chosen, they diverge on one especially inflammatory point of religious doctrine: unlike their present - day Mormon compatriots, Mormon Fundamentalists passionately believe that Saints have a divine obligation to take multiple wives.

Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in the American West, Canada, and Mexico, where some forty - thousand Mormon Fundamentalists believe the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it renounced polygamy.

There are actually no Mormon Fundamentalists.»

The community of Bountiful is made up of members of a Mormon fundamentalist group who hold polygamy as a tenet of their faith.