DBWI: Mormons don't practice Omnigamy?

As we all know, the mormon church has from it's early days been infamous for it's practice of omnigamy, where every member of the community is "married" to every other, and can engage in any partnership with the elder's permision. What if they didn't practice this?
 
I'm fascinated that anyone else cares about the minutiae of the Great Awakening period. The Mormons certainly are among the stranger sects that emerged in the mid-19th century. Many aspects of their teaching weren't that unusual - American Israelism, race differentiation, direct prophecy, that's things we see among many of the churches founded around the time. Their family and community structures were what made them so unusual. A lind of divinely inspired free love movement. Incidentally, it is claimed that that was one of the inflkuences at work, though others think it was Smith's understanding of the biblical exogamous patriarchal family in which all females were brought in from the outside and 'married' to the paterfamilias, who allowed them to his subject male relatives.

I wonder what would have happened had Smith embraced traditional monogamous marriage. Probably Mormonism would simply have become another American denomination. It could well have survived past the 1940s (ironic that the last Mormon communities were dissolved so shortly before the rise of hippiedom. Many hippie communes regarded them - and the Oneidas - as forefathers of their own lifestyles, and a few older members who had grown up in the Bethulia lived out their lives in Frisco).
 
I'm fascinated that anyone else cares about the minutiae of the Great Awakening period. The Mormons certainly are among the stranger sects that emerged in the mid-19th century. Many aspects of their teaching weren't that unusual - American Israelism, race differentiation, direct prophecy, that's things we see among many of the churches founded around the time. Their family and community structures were what made them so unusual. A lind of divinely inspired free love movement. Incidentally, it is claimed that that was one of the inflkuences at work, though others think it was Smith's understanding of the biblical exogamous patriarchal family in which all females were brought in from the outside and 'married' to the paterfamilias, who allowed them to his subject male relatives.

I wonder what would have happened had Smith embraced traditional monogamous marriage. Probably Mormonism would simply have become another American denomination. It could well have survived past the 1940s (ironic that the last Mormon communities were dissolved so shortly before the rise of hippiedom. Many hippie communes regarded them - and the Oneidas - as forefathers of their own lifestyles, and a few older members who had grown up in the Bethulia lived out their lives in Frisco).
Well I doubt they would have lasted much longer in any case. They beleved that the "throne of god" was located on one of the moons of Jupiter, and we where already sending probes to Jupiter in the 1940s.
 
Well I doubt they would have lasted much longer in any case. They beleved that the "throne of god" was located on one of the moons of Jupiter, and we where already sending probes to Jupiter in the 1940s.

Because scientific evidence has ever trumped religious faith before :rolleyes:
 
Because scientific evidence has ever trumped religious faith before :rolleyes:
That is true. If they where still around I could see some kind of religous baised revisionism about the space program. They might even deny that we ever walked on Mars.
 

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That is true. If they where still around I could see some kind of religous baised revisionism about the space program. They might even deny that we ever walked on Mars.
Why would they do that? The First man on Mars was the Grandson of one of the Mormons who created Deus One, the first probe to do a fly-by of Mars.
 
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