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Joseph Smith himself was a pedophile. This is undisputed fact. Former Mormon here.
That's not quite fair. Being a polygamist does not equal being a pedophile.
Look at the ages of his wives when he married them. Don’t be a sheep.
Were they different than the ages of other women who married back then?
150 years ago girls married at 13&14.
I'm using discretion. The youngest to my knowledge of facts, not speculation, was 16. In addition, I feel it's important to take the time in which he lived into consideration. It wasn't uncommon for teenagers to marry around 15. Also, a pedophile is defined as "A person aged 16 years old or older who is mostly or only sexually attracted toward prepubescent children." PREPUBESCENT.
I don't condone any of his behavior, including being a false prophet, but people are diminishing the power of the term pedophile by misusing it, in my opinion. I take these matters seriously and mean no offense to anyone. Smith was married to many women. Some old.
Absolutely disagree. Look at my post above at the ages of the girls. He was in his late twenties and early thirties with most and many of those girls were children. Puberty aside a child is a child. As a parent I would murder a dude in his 20’s for looking sideways at my teenage daughter.
Also he was having sex with them beforehand. Read Emmas accounts.
Fanny Alger, 16
Sarah Ann Whitney, 17
Lucy Walker, 17
Flora Ann Woodworth, 16
Emily Dow Partridge, 19
Sarah Lawrence, 17
Maria Lawrence, 19
Helen Mar Kimball, 14
Melissa Lott, 19
Nancy M. Winchester, [14?]
(*ages when these girls "married" Smith, but he was having sex with many if not all beforehand)
...okay, so? He's been dead for 160-170 years. What does this have to do with what the church actually teaches, and the church today?
People who base their religious believes only on men are nothing but fools. If people want to reject the message of a church based on stories of the actions of men who have been dead for the better part of two centuries, and who themselves are not the subject of worship, then that doesn't say much for their understanding of the religion in the first place, it only speaks for their lack of it.
All churches are wrong. Centralized religion is the same as centralized banking and centralized government. Corrupt.