What are the top three problems in the Mormon Church today?
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First of all, I am Mormon.  I think the top three problems are, in no particular order:\n\n- When members of our church often think they are better then non-members\n- When members of our church think they are better than other members\n- When non-members of the church think they are better than members\n\nI have browsed this great world wide web of ours and in additions to the great experiences one would hope to find from a church organisation, there is also much intolerance on all sides.
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-   Sin.  It's the #1 cause of mankind's problems.\n-   Greed and Pride (leads to much of the following)\n-   Crime (rape, theft, murder, child pornography, kidnapping, etc.)\n-   Crimes against humanity (torture, experimentation, genocide)\n-   Unwillingness to get involved (turning a blind eye when abuse  and injustices occur)\n-   Abuse (spousal and child, as well as other types)\n-   Politics (what a joke) \n-   Religion (killing, rather than loving, in the name of God)\n-   Environmental issues (pollution, global warming, poor use of natural resources, deforestation, etc.)\n-   Natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, flood, drought, etc.)\n-   Economies (disparate global economies, poverty vs wealth)\n-   Starvation (especially in 3rd world countries)\n-   Disease (especially, but not limited to, 3rd world countries)\n-   Education (lack of edu. or poor edu. leads to poverty and a class of people who cannot defend or fend for themselves)\n-   Waste (indulgent over-consumption, poor stewardship of what we already have)\n-   Covetousness (wanting what others have that you do not have)\n-   Love of wealth and power (people will stop at nothing to get what they want)\n-   Unfaithfulness (not just to spouses, but to families, communities, work, etc.)\n-   Selfishness (Lacking the ability to empathize...demanding your way.  Make no mistake, this is a mass problem as well as an individual one)\n-   War\n-   Terrorism\n-   Slavery (it still goes on today...it's just disguised as "cheap labor")\n-   Sex slave trade (the wholesale abuse of women and children around the world)\n-   Immorality\n-   Lack of responsibility\n-   Judicial systems (when money can buy a better defense...)\n-   Drugs\n-   Addiction\n-   Teen pregnancy\n-   Organized Crime\n-   Lies, lies, lies\n-   Entertainment/Media (feeding the world its version of beauty, truth, etc.)\n-   News Media (oh the inaccuracies! and all the trouble that causes)\n-   Cultural misunderstandings or insensitivity\n-   Hatred\n-   Bigotry\n-   Egocentrism\n-   Sexism\n-   Racism\n-   Unemployment\n-   Poverty\n-   Homelessness\n-   Social Security (and other issues that face the elderly)\n-   Rights vs Responsibility  (when your rights step on mine, where does responsibility come in?)\n-   Child abandonment (the making of orphans throughout the world)\n-   Technology (creating a world that is increasingly interactive with machines rather than other humans)\n-   Human Desensitization through Media (i.e. violent images, violent actions, adult themes, lack of consequences, etc.)\n\n\nOkay, I may add more to this later.  This is as many as I can think of at the moment.
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The problems surrounding Joesph Smith's character and occult activities is partly why I left the Mormon church years ago. The bottom line is that JS made up his supposed godly visions, the Book of Mormon, and such, to make money and set himself up as some kind of prophet and religious leader that could live off of the work and sweat of others just like today's big religious leaders. It was as common a practice in his time as it is today. He was a conman, pure and simple - so, as long as he could fool people he did what he pleased like marry several women including some that were married to other men. All he had to do was say God told him to do it and problem solved - well, with the most gulible.\n\nI think the thing to remember is that founding a church, any church, is a time-consuming business; so, in the mean time he continued his treasure-hunting activities to try and make a living and get rich quick. He even tired to sell the publishing rights to his Book of Mormon to raise money to live on. It makes perfect sense that since he'd spent years conning farmers about his gold-finding abilities that he would lie about finding gold plates that he then claimed he used to write the Book fo Mormon. When investigated the founding of the Mormon Church has many many problems.
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contact the missions board in salt lake city in utah they can help you on this matter.?
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Most of our Presidents have been morons, so I don't see the issue here.\n\nWhat's that? Oh, *Mormon*?\n\nIn that case ... who cares?
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I'm Mormon and it sucks...\n\n*says this as she smokes a Marlboro, drinks a beer, watches illicit internet videos, and shoots pure caffine into her veins*\n\nWhat?!
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A friend of mine got married. She is Mormon. I am not. I could not come to the ceremony. THAT was hard for me to accept...why would a church exclude people from its walls? Exclude people from such an important ceremony. It kinda hurt...and that was like 20 yrs ago too.
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1) greed\n2) hate\n3) selfishness\n4) stupidity
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Because of religious issues, as with all other problems in this world...
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Mormonism teaches that God used to be a man on another world and that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of his god on his home world.  He brought his wife to this world, a woman he had married on the other world.  She is, essentially a goddess.\n     In his present god-state, he rules our world. He has a body of flesh and bones.  Since god and his wife are both exalted persons, they each possess physical bodies.  In their exalted states as deities, they produce spirit children that grow and mature in the spiritual realm. The first spirit born was Jesus. Afterwards Lucifer was born along with the rest of us. So, Mormonism teaches that we all pre-existed in the spirit realm having been produced from the union of god and his goddess wife.  Therefore, we all existed in spirit form before coming down down and entering the bodies of human babies that are being born on earth. During this ‘compression' into the infant state, the memories of their pre-existence is 'veiled.' \n      God the father, who is called Elohim, was concerned for the future salvation of the people on earth. In the heavenly realm, the Father had a plan for the salvation of the world. Jesus endorsed the Father's plan. Lucifer did not. Lucifer became jealous and rebelled. In his rebellion he convinced a large portion of the spirits existing in heaven to side with him and oppose god. God being more powerful then they, cursed these rebellious spirits to become demons.  They can never be born in human bodies.  \n      The remaining spirits sided with God.  Since they chose the better way, when it comes time for them to live on earth, they have the privilege of being born in races and locations that are relative to their condition and choice made in the spirit realm.1\n      In the Mormon plan of salvation there needed to be a savior: Jesus. But Jesus was a spirit in heaven. For him to be born on earth, Brigham Young the second prophet of the Mormon church said that instead of letting any other man do it, God the Father did it with Mary. He said that the birth of our savior was as natural as the birth of our parents. Essentially, what this means is that Brigham Young taught that god the father came down and had relations with Mary, his spirit daughter, to produce the body of Jesus.  Though many Mormons will not entertain such incestuous thoughts about God and Mary, this is what Brigham Young taught and as far as we know, this has not been denied by the Mormon church.\n     Nevertheless, Jesus was born, got married, and had children.2  He died on the cross and paid for sins -- but not on the cross only.  According to Mormonism, the atonement of Christ was not only on the cross.  It began in the Garden of Gethsemane before he went to the cross. \n      In Mormonism, men and women have the potential of becoming gods. President Lorenzo Snow said, "As god once was, man is. As God is, man may become." In order to reach this exalted state of godhood, a person must first become a good Mormon, pay a full ten percent tithe to the Mormon church, follow various laws and ordinances of the church, and be found worthy.  At this point, they receive a temple recommend whereupon, the Mormon is allowed to enter their sacred temples in order to go through  set of secret rituals: baptism for the dead, celestial marriage, and various oaths of secrecy and commitment. Additionally, four secret handshakes are taught so the believing Mormon, upon entering the third level of Mormon heaven, can shake hands with god in a certain pattern. This celestial ritual is for the purpose of permitting entrance into the highest level of heaven.3 For those who achieve this highest of heavens, exaltation to godhood awaits them. Then, he or she, will be permitted to have his or her own planet and be the god of his own world and the Mormon system will be expanded to other planets.
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I most certainly thirecognizee a priesthood Vatican 111 there are so many problems within our church that drasticawomeneed Ironing out 1.Should Priests be allowed to marry I say Yes, this is a man made law not God's\n2.Should a married man be able to be Pope? No because the day to day working load of the pope would take up all 0f his or her time  this also goes for Bishops.\n4. Should we ordain women to the preisthood? Yes we are so drastically short of priests world wide certainly call womwn to be priests\n3 Should the church recognise homosexuals, Yes God made each and everyone of us in his own likeness, People do not PICK TO BE Homosexuals they are truly born this way, we must learn to love respect and welcome them all as friends, I love my Lord and God and do not agree that he would turn his back on these people, Do you know any they are usually nice patient loving souls.
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The whole problem is your reliance on god. Instead of going to church go out and do something about these problems. Don't set here and complain
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Trinity3 obviously is an authority on what isn't true.\nThere are more members of the LDS church outside the USA and Canada then there are inside.  There are also more non-English speakers in the church than English speakers in the church with Spaninsh being the largest portion of that group.  I can assure you that there are plenty of minorities in the church.
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AAHHHH someone who is using their brain. You are very correct. The Mormons have known this ever since the Gospel was restored in it's fullness. There is a purpose and a reason for why we are here. Some people get that and some don't.\n\nI think that you will find the following article facinating. It is rather long and I do apologize for that. It makes alot of sense, aspecially about why we are really here.\n\nThe Fall of Adam and Eve\nPurpose\n34603, Primary 6, 4: The Fall of Adam and Eve, Purpose, 13\n\nTo help the children understand the fall of Adam and Eve and to have a desire to return to the presence of Heavenly Father.\n\nPreparation\n1.  Prayerfully study:\n\n•     Moses 2:27–28—Adam and Eve are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.\n\n•     Moses 3:8–9, Moses 3:15–17—The tree of knowledge and the tree of life.\n\n•     Moses 4—The fall of Adam and Eve.\n\n•     Moses 5:9–12—Adam and Eve praise God and are glad for the Fall.\n\n•     LDS Bible Dictionary “Fall of Adam” (p. 670).\n\n2.  Additional reading:\n\n•     Gospel Principles, chapter 6, “The Fall of Adam and Eve.”\n\n•     2 Nephi 2:14–27—The importance of opposition.\n\n•     Alma 42:2–9—Spiritual and temporal death.\n\n•     Helaman 14:16–17—Christ redeems us from both deaths.\n\n•     Genesis 3—The fall of Adam and Eve.\n\n3.  Study the lesson and decide how you want to teach the children the scripture account (see “Preparing Your Lessons,” p. vi, and “Teaching from the Scriptures,” p. vii). Select the discussion questions and enrichment activities that will best help the children achieve the purpose of the lesson.\n\n4.  Materials needed:\n\na.  A Bible and a Pearl of Great Price for each child.\n\nb.  A Book of Mormon and a Doctrine and Covenants.\n\nc.  Four small, undesirable items—such as a bottle cap, twig, or wad of tissue—with string tied around each one; one small object to represent something of value (such as a ring to symbolize eternal life) with string tied around it; and a small bag or container (see the attention activity).\n\nd.  Pictures 6-2, The Garden of Eden; 6-3, God the Father and Jesus Christ; and 6-4, Adam and Eve (Gospel Art Picture Kit 101; 62461).\n\nSuggested Lesson Development\nInvite a child to give the opening prayer.\n\nAttention Activity\nPlace the objects you have tied with string into the bag or container so that the objects are hidden but an equal amount of each string hangs over the side of the bag. Ask a child to choose a string and pull an item out of the bag. Then replace the object and string, let another child take a turn, and so on. Show the class all the hidden objects, and explain the value of the desirable one.\n\nExplain that it is difficult to make a correct choice when we don’t know what we are choosing. Heavenly Father wants us to know good from evil so we can choose what is right. Tell the class that this lesson will explain how we were given the knowledge of good and evil and the ability to choose for ourselves.\n\nScripture Account\nTeach the account of the fall of Adam and Eve from the scriptures listed in the “Preparation” section, using the pictures where appropriate. (For suggested ways to teach the scripture account, see “Teaching from the Scriptures,” p. vii.) The following three points are the major ideas to be taught in this lesson:\n\n1.  The fall of Adam and Eve was foreseen by Heavenly Father and “was a necessary step in the plan of life and a great blessing to all of us” (Gospel Principles, p. 33). We accepted this condition in the spirit world when we supported Heavenly Father’s plan.\n\n2.  “Because of the Fall, we are blessed with physical bodies, the right to choose between good and evil, and the opportunity to gain eternal life. None of these privileges would have been ours had Adam and Eve remained in the garden” (Gospel Principles, p. 33).\n\n3.  After Adam and Eve “fell” from the presen
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:}\nHere is an article I found in my sword project bible software\nMormon Polygamy in fundamental splinter \nThe early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States practiced polygamy and referred to it as "Plural Marriage". It was publicly taught by the Church in 1852, and quickly led to persecution of the Latter-day Saints and the enacting of laws against its practice (the United States Congress made the practice illegal in U.S. Territories in 1862). Although Latter-day Saints believed that their religiously-based practice of plural marriage was protected by the United States Constitution, opponents used it to delay Utah statehood until 1896. Increasingly harsh anti polygamy legislation stripped Latter-day Saints of their rights as citizens, dis incorporated the Church, and permitted the seizure of Church property before the Church ordered the discontinuance of the practice in 1890.\nNational attention in the United States again focused on potential polygamy among the LDS in Thee early 20th century during the House hearings on Representative-elect B. H. Roberts and Senate hearings on Senator-elect Reed Smoot (the Smoot Hearings), which caused the Church President Joseph F. Smith to issue his "Second Manifesto" against polygamy in 1904. Since that time, it has been Church policy to excommunicate any member either practicing or openly advocating the practice of polygamy.\nThe ban on polygamy resulted in a schism within the Church, with various splinter groups leaving the Church in order to be able to continue the practice of polygamy. Polygamy among these groups persists today in Utah and neighboring states, as well as among isolated individuals with no organized church affiliation. Polygamists of this kind are sometimes called "Mormon fundamentalists", despite their lack of affiliation with the mainstream LDS Church. This contemporary polygamy is estimated to be practiced by about 30,000 people. Most of the polygamy is believed to be retracted to about a dozen extended clans.\nThe practice of informal polygamy among these groups presents itself with interesting legal issues. It has been considered difficult to prosecute polygamists partly because they are not formally married under Utah law. Without evidence that suspected offenders have multiple, formal or common-law marriages, these groups are merely subject to the laws against adultery or unlawful cohabitation. These laws are not commonly enforced because they also criminalize other behavior that is otherwise socially sanctioned.\n\nMost of the information i could find focused on polygamous splinter groups\nhttp://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_3673667\nhttp://www.childbrides.org/history.html\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629743\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1151600
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Your right, it does seem there are problems with religious guidance. Here is a good article on why!  http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/1/1/article_01.htm
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There are loads of contradictions in the Bible. Maybe if the church let us see all the books of the Bible. Including the stuff they rejected for the final canonical version of the bible we would understand fully the religion.