Mormonism

Yes, TobyMac is a Christian. He preaches during his concerts to his fans about Jesus Christ. He has a strong Christian faith, and has stated that he is a Christian to the public.
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No, Schwarzenegger is a catholic Christian.

That would be the conference center on temple square.

Of course! Some of the more well known actors and actresses who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church) include:

Amy Adams (no longer practicing)

Wilford Brimley

Eliza Dushku (no longer practicing)

Aaron Eckhart

Jon Heder

Katherine Heigl (no longer practicing)

Rick Schroder

Paul Walker (no longer practicing)

You can see some lesser-known Mormon actors and actresses at the "Related Link" below.

Selena's grandfather was a devout Jehovah's witness and his son Abraham[Selena's Dad] was raised in the religion. However, the Quintanilla family are currently non-practicing Jehovah's Witnesses. As for Selena, she wasn't an official member of the J.W. religion, but she was a believer and was studying the religion before her death.

The routes they pioneered across mountain men explored most of the west

Early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) founded hundreds of settlements throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Most of these are thriving cities today, however some of them failed. The reasons that different Mormon settlements failed varies. Some failed beacuse the Mormons were kicked out (Most of these were in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois). Some failed beacuse of severe weather. Others failed because they were too isolated.

After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in Carthage Jail, the Mormons were being more and more terrorized by mobs in Illinois. During the year of 1846 Brigham Young, the new leader of the Mormons began to assemble the people to get ready to leave Nauvoo and go west. The first wagons began their trek west on February 6th, 1846, and arrived in 1847 the exact date isn't known but the city was founded on July 24th, 1847, and consisted of 148 people with 143 of them being men. For the years to come more and more people came in the following years on the trail that would come to be known as the Mormon Trail and under the direction of Brigham Young.

Early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) founded many cities and towns, the majority of which are still thriving today. These towns are located in the mid-west and western United States, as well as a handful in Canada and Mexico. You can find these early Mormon cities in western Illinois, southern Wisconsin, western Missouri, southern Idaho, northern Arizona, eastern Nevada, nearly the entire state of Utah, and scattered throughout California, southern Canada, and northern Mexico. In fact, there are so many early Mormon towns throughout the western United States that the I-15 corridor, (an interstate from Idaho through southern California) is commonly referred to as the "Mormon Curtain."

According to an article in The Salt Lake Tribune, In 2007, 80% of all Mormon missionaries were young single men, 13% young single women, and 7% retired couples. The ratio remains approximately the same today.

The Mormon Pioneers left Missouri in 1838 because the governor, Lillbourn W. Boggs, issued an extermination order against them, saying that all Mormons should be "exterminated or driven from the state." This extermination order was in place until 1976.

In pretty much all cases leading up to the consolidation of the Church of Latter Day Saints in Utah, the Mormons moved to avoid violence or when they were asked to move by process of law (whether or not due process was correctly followed remains an issue of contention to this day). From the very start, Joseph Smith tried to create a tightly knit group who acted as a bloc and wielded both economic and political power together. Other groups in the areas where the Mormon migration paused, resented this. LDS tend to explain the resentment as a natural reaction of the unholy, and they also note that they follow God's laws and not necessarily the law of Man (which tended to raise havoc with the local authorities). Local non-Mormon groups give reasons that lean towards the perceived Mormon tendency (intentional or otherwise) to effectively exert economic and political control over the area -- and in some cases forced the Mormons to move, sometimes by act of law; sometimes by grass roots reactions (legal and otherwise). A sociologist might add that, when groups don't integrate and yet live in close proximity, violence tends to erupt. Whichever view you prefer, it's accurate to say that violence followed the Mormons on their journey out west and likely was the primary motivating factor in their moves.

No. American Mormons have never fought against the United States in a war or military operation. They have disapproved of what the United States government was doing at times, and they have spoken out against things that are commonly accepted in American culture, but they have never had a battle.

The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.

Yes. Most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) believe that some or all of the Native Americans descend from three groups described in the Book of Mormon - the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. These were groups of Israelites which left the Old World (the Jaredites at the time of the Tower of Babel, the Nephites and Lamanites at the reign of Zedekiah).

The Mormons were able to settle successfuly at the Great Salt Lake due to their faith, strength, steadfast determination to settle together in a place where they would not be persecuted for their religious beliefs and where the lord wanted them to be.

People died, babies were born, they sang, slept, ate, went to the bathroom, basically they just lived their lives. Except...they did all this in severe blizzards, boiling heat, chill winds, and in harsh climate, too. But mostly people died.

Brigham Young lead the first group of Mormon pioneers along the Mormon Trail to Utah in 1846-47. Subsequent groups came over the next 25 years lead by various experienced trail guides.

The Mormon Trail followed a similar route to the Oregon Trail until Wyoming, when it went south to Utah rather than north to Oregon.

Improved answer - Brigham Young was the president of the church at that time, when the Mormons were being driven out of Missouri by mobs, including an illegal extermination order by the USA government. The leaders of the church sent expeditionary parties west to find a place where Mormons could live in peace without being persecuted.

After gathering information about the west from trappers, mountain men and a Jesuit missionary, Brigham Young and the other church leaders decided to move west, although they did not have an exact place in mind.

As the Mormons moved west along the trail, some families were left in certain places to establish resupply points and/or settlements, such as Winter Quarters, (now Council Bluffs, Iowa). When one of the first groups with Brigham Young left Winter Quarters, there were 73 wagons, various animals and supplies.

Brigham Young met Jim Bridger and discussed the possible routes to the Salt Lake valley and if the valley would be feasible for settlement. The wagon train continued on, facing many challenges such as severe illnesses, extremely rugged and hazardous mountains to cross, worn out wagons and exhausted people and animals. They arrived in the Salt Lake valley in July of 1847 and started the settlement.

Many thousands of Mormon pioneers continued the trek across the USA to the Salt Lake valley. Mormons from Europe traveling by ships continued on in wagon trains and hand carts too. Mormons arrived on the west coast and traveled over Donner Pass to get the Salt Lake valley. The wagon trains and hand cart pioneers had a leader, such as a wagon master or trail boss as they traveled.

His greatest goal was to lead the Mormons from Illinois to Utah. Once that was achieved, he continued to lead the Mormons through peace and prosperity. To that end, it was very important to him that Utah become a state, and that the rights of the Mormons be preserved and protected. To lower the infant mortality rate, he sent many women back East to learn medicine.

The United States of America is home to 5,974,041 of the 13,508,509 baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly called "Mormons) worldwide. Which means that about 44% of Church members live in the United States.

The Mormon population of each country and state can be found by going to:

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/statistical-information

then clicking "Map View"

The migration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Utah helped the idea of Manifest Destiny progress in that a new territory was settled by the Church. However, there is a subtle distinction between the two migration patterns. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the United States had the moral privilege of expanding from coast to coast; the Church migration, on the other hand, was done out of necessity to escape persecution and was done as a group of colonists rather than as agents for United States expansion.

The Mormons generally got on a bit better with the Native-Americans than many of the other western pioneers but the record was certainly not unblemished. One reason for the somewhat better relations was that their belief that the Native Americans were at least partially descended from the people whose record was found in the Book of Mormon. That didn't prevent all conflicts but it certainly lessened them and encouraged the early members of the church to treat the Native Americans more equitably. Funny how that works - you treat other people with some respect and you get along better with them...

There is folklore to the effect that a treaty signed by Brigham Young with some of the Native Americans is one of the only treaties ever signed with them that was never broken by the white men. It would be interesting to find out if that is true.

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The name "Mormon" comes from the "Book of Mormon," which Mormons consider scripture. The Book of Mormon is about early immigrants to this hemisphere from Jerusalem and about their history, culture, and religion. Mormons have long regarded Native Americans as a remnant of those Book of Mormon people and have been interested in proselyting or preaching to them to share what they believe is Native American scripture. Many "Indians" have joined the Mormon Church, but many have not. Native Americans obviously have a variety of ancestors, and perhaps most are not descendents of Book of Mormon people; modern archaeological research suggests that the most likely descendents of Book of Mormon people would be from Central America. Interestingly, the Mormon Church has experienced some of its greatest growth among those people of Central and South America, who obviously feel a kinship with the Book of Mormon people. During pioneer times, because of that interest in who the Native Americans were, Mormons treated them with more kindness and consideration than they often got from other American settlers, and the two groups generally got along very well. Even so, there were some clashes early in Utah history, most notably the "Walker War," a very short dispute between Chief Wakara and settlers in Utah County. In an effort to help Native Americans receive needed education, in the 1950s, the Church started a program of fostering Native American children with Mormon families throughout Utah and Idaho (and possibly other areas) during the school year. The "Indian Placement Program" continued for 20 or 30 years and resulted in many close ties between Mormon and "Indian" families. There were certainly problems and disappointments on both sides, but many children benefitted greatly before the program was eventually discontinued.

The Mormon Pioneer Trail is a 1,300-mile travelled by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1846 to 1868. The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississipi river, passing through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Eastern Utah to Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Mormon pioneer movement began in 1846 when, after having been driven once again by mob violence from their settled home, the Saints decided to establish a new home for the church outside the established boundaries of the United States. The trail was used for more than 20 years, until the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856-1860. Two of the handcart companies, led by James G. Willie and Edward Martin, met disaster on the trail when they departed late and were caught by heavy snowstorms in Wyoming.

Once the Mormons arrived in Salt Lake, some were asked by the Prophet Brigham Young to go settle other places such as Genoa, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Cardston, Alberta, Canada and many other settlements in the territory of Deseret.

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