Warren Jeffs – Mormon Child Rapist

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Warren Jeffs is the hereditary leader of around 10,000 people who belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This is one of the offshoots of the Mormon church. They declare that a man cannot enter heaven unless he has at least 3 wives. Jeffs obviously wants to guarantee his place in paradise because he is reputed to have 79 wives. I really don’t care how many wives or husbands a person thinks they need. It is none of my business, but the problem with Jeffs is that somebody can only become a wife if they are an adult who freely makes the choice to take on that role. 24 of those who Jeffs claims as wives were under 17 when he claimed them.

 

Jeffs has now been convicted of sexually assaulting a 15 year old, who had a child by him, and a 12 year old. Jeffs made audio recordings of his sexual activity with the 12 year old and also recorded himself instructing children and young women on how they should please him sexually.

 

Jeffs is not only a predatory paedophile of a very nasty kind, but he is also something of a sweetie when it comes to passing on the messages from his god. Jeffs conducted his own defence, if you could call it that. He made failed attempts to have State District Judge Barbara Walther removed and filed a brief based on what he said was a revelation from the Lord saying she will suffer a crippling sickness that will soon take her life. Nice stuff. You don’t need much imagination to work out what sort of revelations he passes on to the women and girls who might be reluctant to become the ‘spiritual’ wives of this 55 year old lecher.

 

Of course the behaviour of Jeffs fits in very well with that of other leaders of crank religious sects. Whether it is Wayne Bent, otherwise known as Michael Travesser, David Koresh or Jim Jones to name a few recent ones, the pattern is common. They have continual instructions from god that they must have sex with whatever women or children take their fancy and it is a religious obligation for everybody in their cult to assist them in doing this.

 

Jeffs is a menace and after sentencing in a day or two he will hopefully be put permanently in a safe place, but the 10,000 people who followed the ramblings of this criminal crank will not be safe. This organisation will not disappear and there are others still out of gaol who will be pleased to pick up where Jeffs left off.

 

Ten thousand is a lot of people to be taken in by the delusional nonsense of Jeffs and his ilk, but what about the much larger and more powerful religions? Mainstream Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith. He was a pathetic conman who spent his time trying to fleece the gullible by telling them he could find hidden treasure with ‘seer’ or peep stones. At some point he hit on the idea of getting a divine revelation and dragging in some more suckers. God, through the angel moroni, gave Smith some golden plates which he translated with the help of his stones into the book of mormon. Of course god took back his gold writings so nobody would ever be able to check Smith’s ridiculous story.

 

That book is now the basis of the massive, multi-million dollar Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormons). I refer to the dollars deliberately. They are a very money focussed outfit. Those clean cut, be-suited young men you find on your doorstep calling themselves elders are the frontline sales team of a mega corporation whose only product is lies. Some of the lies are just silly, but there are others which are more sinister. For example the Mormon church is racist. According to Smith,god cursed Ham for looking at his naked father. The curse darkened the skin of Ham’s offspring (the Hamites). This is code for saying that black people are inferior. Modern mainstream mormons try to deny the racism without rejecting Smiths words. They removed the ban on black people being full members of the church in 1978. They realised that there was some lucrative recruiting to be done in Africa, but they are still racist and defend the revelation of god by which they justify their racist behaviour.

 

Jeffs is a criminal and most mormons are not. Even the members of Jeffs crazy cult fragment of mormonism are not all deranged, but you have got to question how and why people are taken in. Whether it is the criminal abuse of Jeffs or the straightforward con of Smith, their behaviour appears obviously deviant and yet large numbers of people have been willing to follow them unquestioningly.

 

Mitt Romney and John Hunstman are mormons and Republican politicians who are possible nominees to run for President of the most powerful country on earth. If their judgement with respect to their religious belief is so strange, how would they deal with the great issues facing America and the world?

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