Virtual, Vodou, and Fundy Temples (Rick B 3 of 4)

We’re taking a deep dive into Virtual, Vodou, and Fundy Temples. It’s a fascinating look at secret and highly controversial world of divergent temples and modern groups of the Restoration. Following the assassination of Joseph Smith, the temple liturgy fractured like a prism, scattering the sacred rites of the Restoration in vastly different directions.

Don’t miss our other conversations on temples: https://gospeltangents.com/mormon_history/lds-temples/

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What you will discover in this presentation:

Lost Rites of Mormonism:

Discover early temple ordinances that the mainstream LDS Church left behind, including the Law of Adoption (sealing members to prominent church leaders rather than biological parents), baptisms for health (ritual immersion for physical healing), and the controversial Oath of Vengeance.

The 1978 Breaking Point: Understand how early 20th-century alterations to the endowment and the 1978 revelation lifting the racial ban on Black members became the “last straw” for fundamentalists, who believed mainstream temples were defiled and set out to build their own sacred spaces.

Inside Secret Sanctuaries of Fundy Temples:

Go behind the scenes of Warren Jeffs’ isolated YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, and the dramatic 2008 paramilitary raid sparked by a hoax call. Plus, hear about an exclusive interview conducted inside the temple of Christ’s Church (the Righteous Branch) in Nevada, where they still practice the multi-hour 1877 St. George endowment and perform second anointings.

Decentralized and Progressive Temples:

Explore Missouri Independents who reject the traditional fundamentalist racial ban to allow Black members to receive full temple ordinances, and the progressive Church of Jesus Christ in Christian Fellowship (CJCCF) & Reform Mormons. Both churches conduct virtual temple worship over Zoom using “home temples” and ordain women to the priesthood.

Mormonism Meets Haitian Vodou: Learn how Haitian Latter-day Saints engage in “bricolage,” beautifully blending Mormon temple theology about the thin veil between the living and the dead with indigenous Vodou ancestral veneration.

Join us as we explore how nearly two centuries of history have led diverse branches of the Restoration to continuously adapt Joseph Smith’s most sacred ordinances to forge their own unique connections with the Divine!

0:00 Discontinued Temple Rites
4:03 Racial Apostasy
4:37 FLDS Temple
6:39 Christ’s Church Temples
10:49 Baptism for Health
12:49 Missouri Independent Temple
16:53 Women’s Authority,
20:17 Internet Temples
22:36 Haitians Adapting Mormon Temples

Don’t miss our other conversations on temples: https://gospeltangents.com/mormon_history/lds-temples/

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