{"id":3770,"date":"2005-11-01T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2005-11-01T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T10:48:00","slug":"the-mormon-cult-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/the-mormon-cult-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mormon <strike>Cult<\/strike> Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9630255\/site\/newsweek\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">MSNBC ran an article<\/a> on the growing <strike>cult<\/strike> religion of LDS, that&#8217;s Mormons to you and me.<\/p>\n<p>It revealed a lot of things about the <strike>cult<\/strike> religion that I hadn&#8217;t known before. And you know how I like to know things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Prophet and polygamist, mesmerizer and rabble-rouser, saint and sinner: Smith is arguably the most influential native-born figure in American religious history, and is almost certainly the most fascinating. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9630255\/site\/newsweek\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">This year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the bicentennial is prompting fresh and searching looks at Smith, the faith he built and the legacy he left behind<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Wikipedia offers up even more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints\" class=\"external external_icon\">background info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something I find especially interesting. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_Six\" class=\"external external_icon\">September Six <\/a>are a group of men an women branded as feminists who were excommunicated from the LDS for basically challening the idea of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_Six#Causes\" class=\"external external_icon\">assumptions of a male-only priesthood in the Church<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>For something as simple as challenging the status quo they were kicked out of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaggers.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">7d<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC ran an article on the growing cult religion of LDS, that&#8217;s Mormons to you and me. It revealed a lot of things about the cult religion that I hadn&#8217;t known before. And you know how I like to know things. Prophet and polygamist, mesmerizer and rabble-rouser, saint and sinner: Smith is arguably the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}