Brigham Young inhabited this role for the Mormons, and about as fully as any apostle ever has.
And like the Muslims, the Mormons will be preachers in the world pulpit in the third Christian millennium.
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Like the Gnostics, the Mormons thought that the conventional texts had too much atonement and too little attainment.
Southern Baptists also talk about tithing, although they are not nearly as organized about it as the Mormons.
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Instead, keywords in that question triggered an ad for the Mormons on the top of the search results page.
That the Mormons had a book of their own counted for almost as much as what the Book of Mormon said.
Earlier this summer, some friends of mine retraced a short section of the trail used by the Mormons through southwestern Wyoming.
Although the Mormons won this case it was not without a struggle.
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Yet of those groups, only the Mormons have kept meticulous demographic records -- and those for only a century and a half.
The image seems to have turned yet again, and now the Mormons of the popular imagination are not so much honest as innocent.
Why do the Mormons attract followers while many other religions decline?
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Despite the good relations they cultivate with world leaders, the Mormons' expansion is not always popular: the late Alexander Lebed, a Russian politician, once said they should be banned.
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The Mormons take tithing very seriously.
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The implicit social treaty to which the Mormons in Utah agreed meant giving up their claims to autonomy and the practices that their countrymen found most distasteful (notably, polygamy), in exchange for recognition of their primacy in Utah and a readiness in the rest of the country to tolerate their faith.
We haggled over the numbers of Mormons who would show up in the 1996 Arizona GOP primary and came out with a final poll showing Publisher Steve Forbes winning that state.
The continuing Mormon suspicion of Evangelicals, and the Evangelical hostility toward Mormons, could be politically significant only if the guy on the other side is a credible Evangelical, at least in emotional style.
The church is now waging a large advertising campaign to show the diversity of Mormons in America.
The state thought to have the most affinity fraud per head is Utah, where 60% of the population are Mormons.
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Consider the Millerds, a family of Mormons who live not far from the Allens in south-west Georgia.
Smack dab in the middle of Indian Country, it was founded in 1872 by Mormons who converted the Hopi leader for whom the Painted Desert town is named.
Mormons should be mere members, rather than the linchpin of the Protect Marriage coalition, some Mormons say, lest their primary goal of missionary evangelism be tainted.
As Fluhman shows in marvellous detail, Mormonism was the great scandal of American nineteenth-century religion, somewhat as Scientology is today, though Mormons understandably dislike the comparison.
Utah is the home of the Church of Latter Day Saints, the church of American Mormons.
By the time Skousen died, in 2006, he was little remembered outside the ranks of the furthest-right Mormons.
In the last few years Mormons in Utah have lost hundreds of millions to swindlers taking advantage of church connections.
Romney has Mormons in the bag.
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Exit polls conducted by the Associated Press and TV Networks show that one-fifth of the Republican caucus-goers were Mormons, who overwhelmingly supported Romney, who has been active in the religion since childhood.
It is also aware that more than half of Mormons are outside the United States, many in Latin America.
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