Category: Brigham Young
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Mormon Blood Atonement: Fact or Fantasy?
Historical evidence shows that Brigham Young taught that the blood of Christ is insufficient for some sins, requiring the spilling of one’s own blood instead for atonement. Tragic examples show how this was put into practice.
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Brigham Young Sermon: Joseph Smith’s Consent Needed to Enter Heaven
Brigham Young teaches that although all people will be “saved” (resurrected), only those who obtain Joseph Smith’s consent can then attain the highest degree of exaltation, in the celestial kingdom. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, pp. 288-90 (typescript)[Bold in quotations is added for emphasis and does not appear in originals.] [page 282]…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blacks and the Priesthood
Brigham Young explains the curse of Cain and how black people are relegated to being the “servant of servants” and are prohibited from holding the LDS priesthood until “all the other descendants of Adam have . . . enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood . . .” As printed in: Journal of Discourses, vol. 7,…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Tobacco
“We, as Latter-day Saints, care but little about tobacco; but, as “Mormons,” we use a vast quantity of it.” – Brigham Young
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Two Hours With Brigham Young
An interview with Brigham Young by the famous journalist, Horace Greeley Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Daily Tribune and famous for the phrase, “Go West, young man,” did just that, stopping in Salt Lake City for several days to “study” the Mormons while on his way to the west coast. This took the…
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Brigham Young and Wild Bill Hickman
Discover how Bill Hickman alleged that he had committed murders by the orders of Brigham Young, and other disturbing details.
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Blood Flows in Utah
The brutal legacy of self-styled Mormon fundamentalists Ervil LeBaron and the Lafferty brothers show just how far LDS teachings like blood atonement can be taken.
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 8
The Adam-God Doctrine The Adam-God doctrine was a natural outgrowth of the doctrine of a plurality of Gods. Although this doctrine was not publicly taught until 1852, Adam was held in high esteem at the very beginning of the Mormon church. Apostle John A. Widtsoe said that “In Joseph Smith’s philosophy of existence Adam and…
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Joseph Smith and Money-Digging
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1877 the Vermont Historical Gazetteer printed the following information: About 1800, occurred the “Wood scrape,”. . . a strange affair in which the Wood families, then living here, were the leading actors . . . the Woods dug for money in various parts of the town, and were engaged in this for nearly…