Lafferty sees himself as the prophet Elijah with responsibility to prepare the world for the second coming. He has few followers, but he says the Stracks were, at least for a time, believers.
KSL has been very careful not to call this family Mormon, but if they aren't Mormon, why would they believe the lafferty's after reading under the banner of heaven? Seems to me this family had all the signs the book talks about. Personal revelation from God instructing them to kill themselves? An interesting twist to the tragedy. I'm sure dateline will run with it at some point.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Lafferty sees himself as the prophet Elijah with responsibility to prepare the world for the second coming. He has few followers, but he says the Stracks were, at least for a time, believers.
KSL has been very careful not to call this family Mormon, but if they aren't Mormon, why would they believe the lafferty's after reading under the banner of heaven? Seems to me this family had all the signs the book talks about. Personal revelation from God instructing them to kill themselves? An interesting twist to the tragedy. I'm sure dateline will run with it at some point.
There seems to be a Mormon breeding program of guys who up and decide they're the One Mighty and Strong or Emmanuel or Elijah or Al-Ma from Kolob. I can't keep up with them. It's like who's the newest psychic medium or something. They all have stories and visions and books that the world just doesn't understand because of its wickedness. Yeah, it's usually a joke, but not this time.
Why were they allowed to talk on the phone for "hours"?
Is that standard prison procedure?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
