(July 31, 2013 at 6:46 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: How strickt do you take the laws given in your faith?
And how diverse is the mormon comunity in general? Are there fundermentalists, reformers and various differen views in politics and other social matters being represented in your church?
We generally trust that if there is a commandment passed down from on high that we are never in the wrong for following it. If the Prophet leads us astray, then the burden of guilt is with him, and not us sheeple.
While I belong to the mainstream Chruch, there are certainly other branches. Consider the HBO TV series with Bill Paxton; he was following a more fundamentalist approach to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He continued following the law of plural marriage, as instituted by Joseph Smith, but more important than having many wives is to obey the laws of the land. The United States does not allow a man to marry more than one woman, so we excommunicate anybody who tries to take a second or third wife.
I consider my views to be more liberal. I even admitted to having a drink or two from time to time, and that I do indeed drink coffee. People like myself are called Jack Mormons, but I'm not the more extreme case as I still attend Church and hold a calling in my Ward.
