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Culture Essay: Taboos Of The Mormon Culture

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What would you call someone who had 7 surgeries, 30-40 wives, moved 10 times, ran for president, was arrested 6 times in one day, and had over 200 lawsuits? Mormons call him a prophet. A prophet includes a teacher and a proclaimer of the will of God. A person who states they are proclaimer of God should not have over 200 lawsuits and 30-40 wives. The man was arrested 6 times in one day, which is questionable. The Prophet that has done all these questionable things people see as the founder of the Mormon faith. Would you want a leader/prophet in your religion to have all these things about him? Would you trust him as a leader? Mormons separate themselves from other faiths and cultures due to their history, clothing, marriage/relationship …show more content…

Mormons have multiple taboos in their religion. In the article Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church states “A year after Mormon leaders published a landmark essay on the church's past ban on blacks in the priesthood, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints sat race seems to remain a taboo topic” (Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church, 2014).Up until the past few years everyone knew that the Mormon culture did not allow different races into their religion and people still think of a taboo in the churches. In the article Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church states “Amid a nationwide uproar over race and police use of force, black members of the church say they want to talk about the issues with members of their faith, but it’s tough” (Mormons say race remains taboo topic in church,2014).Even though they let black people join their religion they still have a taboo …show more content…

The first thing I noticed is that they are all men and at least over the age of 60 years old. They are taking a picture of the first ever Mormon prophets and the newest
Mormon prophets. The top picture is the Mormon prophets in 2012 and the bottom picture is the first Mormon prophets of the Mormon culture. They are not arranged in a certain order. They are all Mormon prophets. In the picture of the first Mormon prophets, they are posing different and some of the men are looking for other ways and the picture of the newest Mormon prophets they are all sitting the same and they are all looking at the camera so you can tell the change in taking group pictures throughout the years. The way it was created was they got the picture of the first
Mormon prophets and the picture of the most recent picture and put them together and the reason it was created was to show how the prophets changed over the years of the Mormon region.
Their main audience for the picture would prolyl be people within the Mormon faith. They are all older men which would add to their credibility. They are all men and over the years all the prophets are men and there have never been women as prophets. People know that prophets

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