Strange Things in Religion Keep Coming



U.S. history and probably world history is filled with people who felt some divine calling, organized a religion, or a subset of some existing religion, set up shop and began fulling the calling that had been phoned into them. Only a few decades ago, this was the ultra wealthy founder of the Dominos Pizza chain. He had heard from above he was to use his wealth to set up university and a surrounding little city that taught and practiced an austere version of Catholicism. Eventually he moved the entire enterprise to Florida where it sits today, a far smaller place than his vision had instructed him to build. 

Then, there was Navoo, Ill where Joeseph Smith had been told to establish his wives and religion. After he took another man's wife the man killed Joeseph. Not to worry. Brigham Young took over. He and his many wives moved on to Utah where the Mormon church guards $250 billion. In the reading material you will learn Joeseph unearthed some stones with a message written on them. He later had a long talk with God himself. All this means Mormonism is the REAL church. Other denominations are imposters.

After Brigham Young moved out, a group of idealists, a commune, moved into Navoo and live there for a long time. The small city is still there and if you want to start a religion that may be the place. 

We cannot leave out Jonestown and the bott chasers. There was also the guy at Waco

Which brings us to a new group setting up its own religion in the desert in Arizona. They started by calling themselves Catholics. The men wore collars. It was, and remains, a very poor area. The group started food distribution and small businesses. But the Catholic Church announced the group is not to use any Catholic identification--shame on the group.  

The door is always open for someone or some group to claim they are on a divine mission. There are always some people who will follow a divine mission like lemmings over the cliff. 

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