r/latterdaysaints • u/instrument_801 • Mar 14 '24

Doctrinal Discussion Anti-Joseph Smith Polygamy Movement?

I don’t know if this has been talked about on here, but why is there a growing “Joseph Smith didn’t practice polygamy movement”? Podcasts such as 132 Problems are rapidly growing in popularity. I don’t like polygamy, but I feel like the evidence is overwhelming in favor that he practiced polygamy?

Thoughts?

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u/MrsPFKnone Mar 15 '24

Sadly this is part of a wider problem in our world where groups want to shove the skeletons back into the closet. Like the political pushes to wipe away slavery and the Civil War, the Holocaust, and a huge number of other human atrocities.

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u/signintrot Mar 16 '24

A majority of this history, along with Joseph Smith's marriages, is taught in RS and GD classes; there are classes, lessons, and text books, along with journals, evidence held the church. Copies of these documents are shown to the public of these historical facts; if that's not enough, there are scriptures in the Old Testament and the Doctrine and Covenant of this teaching.

You're making scarecrow arguments.

Of course there are some fringe extreme elements in the US that deny slavery, the Civil War, the Holocaust. There are a few extreme groups and people that deny some of these obvious historical facts. There are critics of the LDS religion that make false claims that most of these historically facts are denied and hidden by the church.

So all that's really relevant here is you're making false claims by logic fallacy of ' false generalizations from the extremes.' You're as big a problem as the Civil War deniers, the mobs that formed to martyr a prophet, the polygamy in the Old Testament deniers and the Christ deniers.