Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Smith, Joseph. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Vol. 6, Deseret News, 1912, p. 313.
Tenskwatawa, though an Indian, used the same claims and approach that messiahs and prophets have in many different religions, times and places.
Odo of Chatillon-Sur-Marne. Westerners who look with horror at the religious promises of Islamic clerics that suicide bombers and other Muslims who die “defending Islam” will immediately pass to Paradise without the usual requirements and judgments which might deny admission because of previous sins. However, this is exactly what the Christians did in the Crusades as this well documented quotation demonstrates. To see the Islamic version, go to {617166}
Martyrs to most Muslims are people who die when defending Islam, which includes under the definitions of the Muslim Fundamentalists murdering innocent civilians including women and children. In addition to ascending directly to heaven, the male martyr gets 72 virgins in Paradise.
Joseph Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that continues to the present.
