Most Mormons bore the hardships of the frontier stout-heartedly, even cheerfully. |
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So, they will say they're Mormon, party like rock stars, but adamantly tell you that they are not Jack Mormons. |
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People who are Mormons but don't follow all the church teachings are called Jack Mormons, hence the funny name for a local brand of coffee. |
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First, Mormons often assumed that the social meaning of material goods would both emerge from and be mediated by the local community. |
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No, the Mormons believe that Christ is a created being, that he is not God. |
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The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints is more commonly known as Mormons. |
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She insisted the Mormons were the only religion that was completely corruption-free. |
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The Mormons believe themselves and their faith to be a restoration of the original Church of the Apostles that existed in the first century. |
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Basically the Mormons insist that Jesus came to America to teach the Native Americans about Jesus. |
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The Mormons were looking for an ideal place to practice their religion, free from persecution. |
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Mormons believe that the physical body is sacred and shouldn't be contaminated. |
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There are, of course, more recent books that enjoy scriptural status among such groups as the Sikhs and Mormons. |
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Smith looked to the upcoming presidential race, hoping to secure the ear of a candidate willing to come to the aid of the Mormons. |
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For me, Mormons tend to be hardworking, religious people who are very very friendly. |
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I am referring to the Mormons or, officially, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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The Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses now have their largest congregations in the world in Mexico City. |
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He encouraged the Mormons to be self-sufficient and created an independent commonwealth. |
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But when asked to review Brigham City, an independent feature film by and about Mormons, I could only approach the task with guarded curiosity. |
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The Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Mormons all have impressive emergency relief works after major events. |
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Most contemporary Mormons oppose same-sex marriage, and they're also committed to monogamy. |
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Broadly speaking, Mormons are tight-knit, and accepted minority group in the United Kingdom and Europe. |
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Mormons tend to only mix with fellow Mormons on social occasions. |
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In BC and Idaho, extremist Mormons are identified in the trafficking of girls and women for marriage in polygamous communities. |
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Since the early church, Mormons have published newspapers and magazines. |
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The Mormons came together in the nearly abandoned town of Commerce on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. |
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Mormons are strongly taught that they have a religious obligation to trace their own genealogies and perform temple ordinances for their ancestors. |
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Yes, all of these claims have been made by authoritative Mormons over the years. |
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Some Jack Mormons may even still believe many or all of the Church's teachings, but for various reasons choose not to attend services or participate in church activities. |
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For some, the Mormons for example, genealogical research is of religious importance. |
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Modern descendants of early nineteenth-century American theological creativity include the Mormons and the Seventh-Day Adventists. |
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Adventists and Mormons spiritualized their rules of healthful living. |
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Since the 1980s, Protestant religions have been attracting more followers, especially Evangelists and Adventists, and to a lesser degree, Mormons. |
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Groups that promote nonsmoking as part of their religion, such as Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, have much lower rates of lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers. |
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Now, I gather that adherence to this literal view, held by Joseph Smith, is not for Mormons today a doctrinal matter. |
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Other public discussions focused on the perceived danger of Mormons coming to dominate regions economically and socially. |
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But except for the four lapsed Mormons who attended, they stood alone. |
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It's like doing the hora with Mormons, but without any sense of danger. |
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Until relatively recently, Mormons excluded African-Americans from the priesthood. |
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Official teachings and histories were pretty much all that was available to most Mormons. |
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For example, I point to the pietistic practices of Bahais, Buddhists, and Mormons to encourage my Baptist Pietist students to take their pietism a little more seriously. |
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It has made scientific inspection of northern part of lake, and four years after it ' the Report ' promoted the basis of a colony of Mormons. |
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Government decisions greatly influenced the immigration and settlement experiences of the Mennonites, Doukhobors and Mormons. |
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The Mormons who settled in southern Alberta in 1887 came without special privileges. |
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The number of Mormons immigrating to western Canada was relatively small. |
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Stansberi has found, that Mormons were the able-bodied, disciplined and hospitable people, and attributed a considerable part of success of the enterprise of their help. |
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons, puts great emphasis on the members integrating the principles and commandments they have learned as much as possible into their everyday lives. |
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Other small groups include Muslims, who claim 5,000 adherents, as do the Mormons. |
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Though still small in number in Preston, the Mormons maintain a large profile. |
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Pentecostalists, Mormons, and Emersonians have little or no continuity with European Protestantisms. |
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That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border. |
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Examples might include the Amish, Druze, Mormons, Sikhs, Yazidi and Zoroastrians. |
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There are also places of worship for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Sikhs and The Salvation Army, amongst others. |
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Turner shows that the Z. C. M. I. in part reflected the socialist and communalist doctrines that Smith had taught, and were opposed by more laissez-faire Mormons. |
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In the sense that Mormons worship only God the Father, they consider themselves monotheists. |
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The propensity of the Mormons to establish their own political and social system and the incompetency of federal territorial officials led to an era of conflict with the federal government. |
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The reason for this is because Mormons believe that Jesus and Lucifer are literally brothers, and we as humans are all the younger brothers and sisters of them. |
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Mormons are still often perceived as having a hidden agenda. |
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National legislations have an age limit for official marriage, but these are often ignored in minority groups such as the Mormons in the United States, or among the Roma. |
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The federal government successfully used this provision to attract Mennonites from the Russian Ukraine, as well as Scandinavians, Icelanders, Danes, Mormons, and Doukhobors. |
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I'd like to point out that the common vision of polygamy is that when people hear this word, they think of, for example, the Mormons, where one man has a bunch of wives and has complete domination over them. |
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In an official reply, the government asserted its intention to ensure that the Mormons conformed to Canadian law, and rejected the need to impose any restrictions on land acquisition. |
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In 1852, not long after Mormons established a theocratic state in the Utah Territory, they publicly declared that plural marriage was a central Mormon belief. |
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Some Mormons believe that Quetzalcoatl was historically Jesus Christ, but believe His name and the details of the event were gradually lost over time. |
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Mormons teach that scriptural statements on the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost represent a oneness of purpose, not of substance. |
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Splinter groups who call themselves fundamentalist Mormons still practice plural marriage, including Warren Jeffs' sect on the Utah-Arizona border. |
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