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Written by John L. Smith   
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:47

Assorted Articles by John. L. Smith  

MORMONS DON’T EVEN FOLLOW THEIR OWN BOOK!

 

Take your choice, either the Book of Mormon is true and Mormon prophets of today don’t follow it, or the Book of Mormon is false!

What a dilemma!  They can’t have it both ways!    

I use the Book of Mormon to refute Mormonism.  It’s the best tool I have! 

 Mormon prophets don’t follow their own book!  Mormon prophets say, “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.”  Mormonism says God, Christ and the Holy Ghost are three separate Gods.  Mormons say that God can be at only place at a time. 

The Book of Mormon says, “JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD.”  Title page, second paragraph.

The testimony of the Three Witnesses says in the last sentence, “An honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, which is One God. Amen.”

Mosiah 5:2 - 4 says that “they” “are one God, yea the very Eternal father of heaven and of earth.”  

Alma 11:22 says that a fellow named Amulek shall “say nothing contrary to the Spirit of the Lord.”  

Verses 27 – 29 says: “Now Zeezram said: Is there more than one God?  And he answered, No.”  

Verse 39 says, “Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father?  And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and earth, and all things, which in them are; he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last…”  

And the 44th verse ends with, “and shall be brought and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the Father, and of the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God…” 

Third Nephi says:  “and thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father and I, and the Holy Ghost are one.”  (3rd Nephi 11:36) 
   
Note however, Alma 11:44 says Holy Spirit rather then Holy ‘Ghost.’  The two words, as in the King James Version of the Bible, have the exact same meaning.           

When I was speaking through interpreters to a group from old Mexico, who spoke no English, I mentioned Mormonism error that they teach that God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost have omnipresence, but that the Holy Spirit does not.  They consider the Holy Spirit incapable of omnipresence.           

My host from back in the auditorium stood up and said, “Bro. Smith, you have lost your interpreter, Spanish and English, give the same meaning to both words!  “Therefore, the Book of Mormon, which I do not consider scripture, if their interpretations are correct, is in error,” according to Alma 11:44 and the other passage quoted here.

the book wrong?  Or are your prophet and all the rest of Mormons wrong? 

And I could point to dozens of other passages from the Standard Works that prove beyond doubt that Mormonism is not what it claims! 

Therefore, there is something drastically wrong.  Either Mormonism is wrong or the Book of Mormon is wrong!

And either way, Joseph Smith, Jr., and the current prophet and former prophets are wrong!

Jesus is the way!


THE CHOICE!


(1st NEPHI 14:9-10 )     I should remind our readers that the word “church” is never found in the Old Testament. However, in the Book of Mormon, 1st Nephi 14:9-10, presumably written between 600 and 592 BC, before Christ, we find the word used two times.  In verse 9 it says, “that great and abominable church…whose founder is the devil.”      The following verse, 10, says, “Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil…whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.”      Now the very fact that this is supposedly written between 600 and 592 years before the church began to exist – thinking people should see that these verses alone prove the falsity of the Book of Mormon.      A man should not have to be a genius to see this error!  Obviously the passage was written hundreds of years later, after the Catholic Church had come into prominence.  In fact, we find the “church” or “churches” used six times in the two verses, and another six times in the rest of the chapter.      There are dozens of other instances where words from other centuries are in 1st Nephi.      If you found a letter supposedly written by your great grandparents that spoke of computers and calculators and Bill Gates and the two president Bush’s and other more recent facts, would you believe it was really written 100 years ago?

     God expects us to use reason.

 

AN OPINION!

The 7/25/02 issue of The Salt Lake Tribune includes an opinion relating to the imprisonment of Tom Green who is seeking aid to pay for the upkeep of the convict’s family.     

The prosecutor, the Governor’s brother (?), is seeking state and federal program’s as well as private donations for the Green family.  He claims the wives and children are victims. 

Helping them with food and shelter might be justified, but moving them closer to the prisoner, whose 1-5 years prison term just may be extended since his August 16 conviction for child rape. Perhaps helping the Green wives (5) may be justified. 

If private citizens want to chip in, perhaps that is legitimate; but asking state and federal taxpayers to relocate the family so they can be closer to the convicted polygamist is too much!     

Taxpayers have already funded $54,000.00 in support for Green’s family, five wives and 30 children. They also paid for two trails and are funding his incarceration. And he will no doubt continue his polygamous lifestyle once he is freed.  

 


MORMON POLYGAMY

 

Mormon Polygamy a History, by Richard S. VanWagner, printed by Signature Books in Salt Lake City, a quasi Mormon publisher in Salt Lake City intimates that Polygamy is “an embarrassing relic of the past.”      How could that be true when 70% of Utah’s population is Mormon and 30,000 or more people are practicing it without question in Utah?

It appears to be widely practiced too, in Arizona and Montana, etc. 

Polygamist’s businesses thrive in Salt Lake City.     

This book says (2nd edition) page x that a sect practicing polygamy in Ogden (UT) also “advocates divinely mandated lesbian practices as well as polygamy.

      The book mentions a San Francisco Examiner’s 4/7/85 article, which cites the testimony of those trying to leave the group, “where women wear ankle length dresses, shun make-up, wear their hair in buns and do little but breed.”  Sect leaders “squabble over desirable young girls.”     

But among the more sophisticated people in Utah’s larger cities, it’s “the thing to be!”

 It is only reasonable that the likelihood of lesbian practices would develop among polygamous wives during those times when the husband was cohabiting with one of his other wives.  Young women, once sexually active, I would think would more likely be involved under these circumstances.  Their limited funds would make the likelihood of their cohabiting more likely.


BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD!

There is a verse in the Bible (1st Corinthians 15:29) which says, “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all?  Why are they then baptized for the dead?”

Mormons use this verse for much of their doctrine.  Note: It does not say that Paul, or the Corinthians, Christians, or any other group of Bible believers ever did, or taught such a thing as “baptism for the dead!” Yet much of Mormonism’s most important teachings depends on the correct interpretation of this single verse. Note:  It is never mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, nor is it ever even hinted at in the Book of Mormon.

However, hundreds of thousands every year are being persuaded to become Mormons, and assuming Mormon temples are costing an average of a million a piece, they have spent $100,000,000.00 on their temples, plus up keep and maintenance. Mormon missionaries are persuading our people, their converts, to participate in their program of temple work.

Note the passage.  It is never even mentioned but this one time in the Bible and never in the Book of Mormon    

Note too, the passage never says that Paul, nor the Corinthians, nor any church ever baptized “for the dead.”      Perhaps someone did?

 

How should this passage be interpreted?  Verses 3 and 4 of this passage speak of Christ who did not sin, died in our place so that we could be saved, He died for us. Now baptism, immersion, teaches that though we must die, because of Christ’s death, we have the promise of being resurrected.

When one is baptized, it is a picture of his death to sin and as he is raised up out of the water, resurrected, to walk with Christ together. Baptism is a picture of our death to sin and rising to walk with Christ, that does not mean that we won’t sin anymore, but that we are looking to Christ’s death for our salvation.

This does not mean that we won’t sin anymore, but that because of His death we have the promise of the resurrection. Therefore Mormon temples, promise of baptism for dead relatives and temple marriage ceremonies are all in vain.

It is wrong to promise people something that is not Biblical, nor is it ever taught in the Book of Mormon. Mormonism is built on a false hope!  It is fooling hundreds of thousands of sincere people a year!

 

 

PROVO, (UTAH) HOMES ONLY 42.6% OWNER-OCCUPIED

\I haven’t seen other statistics,  but the July 27, 2002 issues of the Salt Lake Tribune reports only 42.6% of its homes are owner-occupied.  The article implies that the figure is very low.

It appears that many of its landlords have ignored zoning laws and that residential homes are actually single-family homes being illegally converted into “triplexes and even mini-motels.”      Provo, the home Brigham Young University, is among the largest private universities in the world, and the largest in the continental United States. 

It is roughly twice the size of Baylor. Provo has 16,752 rentals the paper says, too many to keep track of.  They want owners to buy business licenses and to allow zoning officers to make inspections, crack down on illegal apartments and make owners subject to fines or closure.

Councilman Dave Knight calls conditions there “appalling.”  Some places on the west side have cockroaches, rotting carpet and broken toilets forcing occupants to use bathrooms in neighboring apartments or nearby convenience stores, one BYU alum says. Other Utah cities, Salt Lake City, Ogden and West Valley City for example, already require owners of larger rental complexes to get business licenses. 

Ogden’s business license and permit supervisor says their fees generate more than $61,000.00 a year for zoning enforcement. Provo city officials will be discussing proposals next month.

 


ORIGINS OF THE BOOK OF MORMON       

 It is our conviction, that the Book of Mormon is not a book of scripture.  It is the work of perhaps two or more men,  either to fulfill their intention to use their writing ability to write a novel, or perhaps, thinking themselves providentially endowed to present religious fact as they believed, or desired, to reveal them.

It is, of course, my many years’ conviction that the Book of Mormon is not a new revelation from God, but a very human effort to develop a new book of scripture.

The two theories generally presented by those who do not consider the book divine, is that one of two men endeavored to write a book that would be accepted as scripture.  One, I think, did not intend that it be considered scripture, the other, I suspect, intended that it be accepted as a revelation from God.

Its obvious use of the King James translation of the Bible should be evident to anyone knowledgeable of the King James Version and the events relevant to its source and production. Its thousands of verses word for word from the King James Version cannot be explained apart from the observation that many, many passages are obviously simply copied from existing material.     

To assume that the book is a translation from “Reformed Egyptian” is neither reasonable nor explainable. Particularly 2nd Nephi 12-24, 13 chapters almost word for word from the King James Version first printed in 1611, supposedly a translation by inspiration from the golden plates found by Joseph Smith buried in a hill in upstate New York.  Even including many italicized words from the King James Version for which there was no word for word translation.  These italicized words were added by the King James translations for which there were admittedly no original Greek words.  These words, often, “that,” “men,” “even,” “them,” “shall,” “how,” etc. were included, not translated, to give sense in the English language.     

The supposed translator’s were evidently not aware of these facts, therefore proving to knowledgeable and educated readers, that the book is not what it claims. Too, other proof that the Book of Mormon is not scripture, the writers speaking of Adam and Christ as though they were contemporaries, and the word “church” long before its use in scripture. 

And speaking of Christ by name centuries before his birth, and its mention of cities and peoples whereas in Scripture practically every country and city is known to have existed.  Its use of animals, coins, names Nephi, Lehi, and many others not known in ancient history, whereas practically every place, city, stream, lake, king, nationality, etc. mentioned in scripture is otherwise known.

Not a city, country, mountain, lake, sea, ruler, etc. mentioned in the Book of Mormon but was obviously fabricated, except those excerpted from the Bible.

 


GRASPING AT A STRAW!

          Now Mormons have come up with the idea that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon at or near Susquehanna, PA, according to a story in the 8/16/02 Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner         

For years I’ve tried to find one Mormon who can show me Mormon teaching’s about God in the Book of Mormon         

I’ve discussed Mormonism through the years with Mormon Apostle LeGrande Richards, Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr., the church historian and later prophet, Leonard Arrington, President of BYU, and many Mormon missionaries, and ex-missionaries, I’ve talked, not one has shown me a single verse that plainly, or even remotely, teaches that God did not create the heavens and the earth, that he has a body, physical children, except Jesus, or that men now living can become gods or Gods.          

Who wrote the Book of Mormon?  It wasn’t a pre-25-year old uneducated Joseph Smith, Jr.!           

The Book of Mormon wasn’t written in 600 BC to 421 AD.  How do I know?  Because claiming to be several hundreds years BC it quotes almost verbatim from the King James Version, 2nd Nephi 12:24, 13 chapters from the King James Version which was not printed until 1611.           

Let’s be honest now, if you found a book claiming to have been written in the 1800’s, would you expect it to mention Chevrolet, Ford, and Dodge automobiles?           

Honestly now, would you?           

Would you expect to see the words “church,” “Jesus Christ,” “Holy Ghost” and “Holy Spirit,” and “Bible” supposedly hundreds of years before those words existed.  You don’t find them in the Old Testament!           

You say, “What’s the point!”  “What difference does it make?”           

For one thing, it determines whether the Book of Mormon is what it claims to be or not.            I defy any BYU professor, any Mormon General Authority, or even any Mormon missionary, to show me a single verse in the Book of Mormon that even implies that, “as man is, God once was; as God is, man may become."          

That’s a pretty big order!           

The Book is obviously the work of someone in the past 200 or so years.  Someone who was aware of the disagreement with Catholicism must have written it.  It wasn’t written by a catholic, 1st Nephi 13:5 – 14:17.           

There are verses that were plainly written after the work of Alexander Campbell, 2nd Nephi 25:23.           

If a Congregationalist on Presbyterian had anything to do with it, it would have had to later be edited.           

It had to be written by someone familiar with Baptist teaching’s, Mosiah 27:25-28.           

 In fact, if it were scripture, it would contradict modern day Mormonism in many passages throughout the book.  Jacob 2:24 and verse 27 and 3:5.           

Strangely, in such and important subject as the doctrine of God, it obviously denies the Bible teaching that God, Christ and the Holy Ghost today have omnipresence and it obviously and plainly teaches that there are only three in the Godhead.  Christ had a body until his resurrection.           

Anyone with any training in Biblical studies would have to admit that the two words, “Ghost” and “Spirit” are really just translations of one word.           

In checking it is obvious that educated Mormons are beginning to see a little light.           

The tragedy is that educated and intelligent Mormons, in their effort to be right, are often becoming agnostics or atheists.  Someone responsible may have to account for leading others astray!  


DID THEY TELL YOU THIS AT SALT LAKE CITY?

MORMON DOCTRINE EXAMINED 

Many years ago I wrote a tract entitled Did They Tell You This at Salt Lake City.
It was printed several times and I was recently sent a copy of it.  I would like to reprint it.
Here is the tract as it was written 25 – 30 years ago:

 

A visit to the famous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City does not make one an authority on the Mormon Church.  In fact, a tour of the Temple Grounds often blinds one to the true teachings and practices of Mormonism.  I do not choose to be unkind, but a thorough knowledge of Mormon teachings, and a number of visits to the temple grounds convince me that the “Temple Tour” is misleading.


Your visit through the Temple Grounds was no doubt a pleasant one.  Courteous guides conducted your tour past the “Monument to the Sea Gulls” for a brief stopover in the Assembly Hall, into the Famous Tabernacle and finally back through the Museum to the Information Desk where you were no doubt given a number of tracts, including a small card with a colored picture of the Salt Lake Temple on one side, and the Article of Faith on the other.  (You were not allowed inside the Temple itself – it was far too “sacred” for your eyes to behold).


The first Mormon Article of Faith starts like this: “We believe in God, the Eternal Father.”  What they did not tell you, and what most new converts to Mormonism do not seem to realize, is this: they believe in a HUMAN GOD.  The quotation by Mormon President Lorenzo Snow is familiar to all Mormons, “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.”


Brigham Young, a Mormon Prophet, Revelator and Seer said of Adam, “He is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do.”  (Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, page 50.) Their authorities are teaching that God was a man, that he was not and is not perfect, that he had wives and a human body.  They even teach that men today can become gods, and may someday reign over another world.


 Another oft-quoted statement attributed to Joseph Smith is: “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man…”  (Journal of Discourses, Vol. VI, page 3) The Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt, in Vol. I, No. 3 of “The Seer” (page 37) said, “In heaven where our spirits were born, there are many Gods, each of whom has his own wife, or wives, which were given to him previous to his redemption, while yet in his mortal state.”


  Continuing the “First Article,” “We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son…”  But they do not tell you that they believe that Adam is Father, “When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness.  He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.  (See Matt. 1:20-21) And who is his Father?  He is the first of the human family (Adam)….” (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, Page 50).
 

Orson Hyde, a Mormon Apostle, said:  “We say it was Jesus Christ who was married.”  (At Cana of Galilee)  Hyde later names Mary and Martha as “two” of his wives.  He later made another reference concerning the “wives of Jesus” in the Seer, page 159.  Truth does not change, therefore, Mormonism teaches a POLYGAMOUS CHRIST.

The Mormons believe in AN IMPERFECT BIBLE.  Article eight, of their Article so Faith says: “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly;…”  Mormon missionaries carry their Bible and are ready at any time to cast reflections upon its reliability.  One quotation is enough to prove this point.  In his pamphlet, “Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon” (No. 3) Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt said, “Add all this imperfection to the uncertainty of the translation, and who, in his right mind, could for one moment, suppose the Bible in its present form to be a perfect guide?  Who knows that even one verse of the whole Bible has escaped pollution, so as to convey the same sense now that it did in the original.”  (Page 47)


Though hundreds of verses are quoted verbatim from the King James Version, and thousands of changes have been made in the Book of Mormon since the first edition was printed in 1830, the remainder of the eighth article reads, “we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.”  Joseph Smith claimed to be the author of the Book of Mormon according to the first edition.  Later editions call him the translator,  Rather inconsistent!


 Mormons believe in a CHANGING PROPHET.  The President of the church is even today the Prophet, Revelator and Seer.  One “Prophet” made plural marriage a “commandment from God” – the other, delivered the “Manifesto” and advised his people to “refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”  Yet Section 132 in the “Doctrine and Covenants,” which relates to plural marriages, has not been stricken from the book.  It is still taught in Sunday schools and is vigorously defended by the elders and priests of the Mormon faith.


Mormons have a PROSELYTING MISSION PROGRAM.  Over 60,000 Mormon men, and women are today traveling throughout the world, largely at their own expense, and at the expense of their relatives, to turn people from their own churches to Mormonism.  Missionaries unashamedly speak of “going proselytizing Thursday evening.”


Their ideas about baptism for the dead and celestial marriage seem to appeal to people with a feeling of guilt or shame concerning their deceased.  Jesus said, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”  (Matt. 23:15) Mormon missionaries are doing just that.


 Mormons are being taught a TEMPORARY HELL.  Contrary to the teachings of the Book of Mormon about an “Awful Hell,” and a “lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment,” they do not teach that there is such a place.  They scoff at the idea.  Their idea of proxy baptism makes it possible for them to live as they choose and repent at death.  Only those who leave the Mormon faith or had some part to do with mobbing the so-called “Prophet” Joseph Smith have anything tangible to worry about.


They believe in an EARTHLIKE HEAVEN.  Some even go do far as to say the Jackson County, Missouri is Heaven.  Others say that it is the American Continent.  Dozens of businesses thrive in Utah with the name ZION in their title.  This is an expression of their belief that Utah, with its “River Jordan,” “Salt Lake” and numerous Book of Mormon names, is Heaven?


They believe that marriages solemnized in a Temple will continue after death, and that children will be a part of the “family group” in heaven.  They teach that mothers will go on bearing children heaven, to populate worlds and elevate their husbands.  Without her husband, according to the Mormons, a woman has little chance of resurrection.  The husband is to call his from the grave “if he wants her resurrected.”


 Jesus said, “in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” (Matt. 22:30) They say a women can be sealed to a man for “eternity” and though she cannot be his plural wife here, according to the law, she can be a part of his “harem” in heaven – where she will still bear children, cook, keep house and sew.  Mormons do not think of heaven apart from sex and family relationships.  That’s why I say, an EARTHLIKE HEAVEN.


Yes, Mormons have a human god, a polygamous Christ, and imperfect Bible, a changing prophet, a proselyting mission program, a temporary hell and an earthlike heaven – but it didn’t sound that way on “Temple Square” did it?  That’s why I say that information given there is “unfair, unjust and misleading.”


 Aside from these disgusting facts about Mormonism, the oft-mentioned “Word of Wisdom” forbidding the use of coffee, tea, cokes, tobacco and other items is almost a joke in Utah.  Almost every grocery store sells beer, even some owned by Mormon “Bishops” and “Elders.”  The Deseret News, published by the church, advertises coffee, cokes, tea and cigarettes.  The same is true of church owned radio station KSL.  We might close by saying, a CHURCH GREEDY FOR GAIN.  Remember the old adage, “All that glitters is not gold."
           

This is written in your interest that you might not be soon turned from the faith.  Paul said, “there be some that trouble you, who would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” (Gal. 1:7-8)

 


The Adam God Doctrine!
Brigham Young, the second Prophet of the Mormon Church said, "When our Father Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives with him.  He helped to make and organize this world.  He is Michael, the archangel, the ANCIENT OF DAYS!  about whom holy men have written and spoken - HE is our FATHER and our God, and the only God with whom WE have to do.
Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non-professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later....When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the father had begotten him in his own likeness.  He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.  And who is the Father?  He is the first of the human family, and when he took a tabernacle it was begotten by his Father in heaven after the same manner as the tabernacles of Cain and Abel, and the rest of the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve,....."  (Journal of Discourses, vol. I, pg. 50)
Now the Bible says, "If there arises you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto the, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou has not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not harken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul...And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD, your God..." (Deut. 13:1-3, 5)
And there is a further problem!  More recently, on 10/9/76, the Deseret News Church News (Mormonism's official newspaper), page 11,  quoted the then LDS prophet, Spencer W. Kimball who emphasized during the Priesthood session of the conference (10/2/76): "We warn you against the dissemination of doctrines which are not according to the scripture and which are alleged to have been taught by some of the General Authorizes of past generations.  Such, for instance, is the Adam-God theory.  We denounce that theory and hope that everyone will be cautioned against this and other kinds of false doctrine."
There you have it!  One or the other taught false doctrine, or BOTH!
   
 "Come ye out from among, and be ye separate, sayeth the Lord..." (2nd Cor. 6:17b).
   
When prophets disagree on such important subjects, LDS leaders should lead the way!
   
Mormonism is NOT of God!
 

JABEZ

 

I could be Jabez or Jason, or Jasper, or Jehu, or Jephthah, or Jeremiah, or Jesse, or Joe, or John or Jonathan (or Joseph), or whoever, but the important things are the facts that are presented here!

 

I just ran across some interesting information:  a website (according to the Deseret News, the Mormon newspaper, April 25, 2000 Utah rates higher than the national average in work-related injuries in the workplace during the year 2000.

 Too, Utah has more tax protesters for its population than any other state in the union!  Tax protesters either refuse to file or attempt to avoid payment!  Deseret News, 4/13/02.

Utah’s rate of suicides has exceeded the national average for several decades in a row!  Only 9.4% of the people nationally commit suicide while Utah rates 14.3%, according to the Deseret News, 4/1/02.  Historically, the leading cause of death of 24 to 44 year-old men in Utah, is suicide.  It ranks second as the cause of death in 15 to 24 year old men.

According to the 4/16/02 Deseret News, Utah ranks ninth in deaths by suicide in the nation!

How about the use of Antidepressants in Utah, the 2/20/02 issue reports that Utah leads the nation in their prescribed use!  Their use is twice that of other states and three times the rate of New York and New Jersey!  (Los Angeles Times, 2/20/02)

What state has the highest MS (Multiple Sclerosis) cases?  Utah. (Deseret News, 2/8/02)

Prenatal Care in Utah:  Nationwide, 3.8% of birth mothers in 1999 received little or no prenatal care during pregnancy.  In Utah the rate of mother’s receiving little or no care was 4.4%.  But as late as 1993, the number was only 2.4%.  The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2/02.

Utah is the second driest state in the U.S., Nevada was first!  More than half the drinkable water in Utah goes to sprinkle gardens and residential lawns.  (National Geographic, 2/02)

What state has the greatest piracy of software, according to Microsoft, (Web Reviewer Cleotis.com 3/26/02) “Utah is the worst and they say that Mississippi is the second worst in disregarding copyright laws and license agreements.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 20:02
 

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