Top 10 Things You May Find an Australian Who is Connected to the LDS Church Believing in Addition to the Regular Mormon Doctrine

This also applies to people who aren't Australian but who are connected to Australian culture or Australian heritage in some way. It's also possible they might believe these things but not the typical Mormon doctrine.

Most of the rules, though, are the same as typical Mormon doctrine, as are core teachings about God and the afterlife.

Note that this set of beliefs has been called many things and doesn't have a single name due to its more nebulous history. It wouldn't be surprising to see some name it for the traveler Hagoth, for Gnosticism, or based on the pre-existing term "Jack Mormon." Unless you're good at making yourself clear with labels, it's easier simply to say you believe in them or not.

The Top Ten

  1. Jesus visited Australia for forty days after His death, an event Australians often cite cave paintings of European-looking people as alluding to, and which time zones possibly explain to align with classic Mormon beliefs

  2. Cain lives in and wanders Australia, with the continent allegedly showing signs of his presence

  3. Australia, New Zealand, and Polynesia contain lost locations mentioned in the Book of Mormon

  4. Songlines, a cue system invented by Australian Aboriginals that uses geography as a message-bearing medium, are as sufficient as written scripture, specifically those running between the Australian LDS temples

  5. Church membership should not be seen as requiring bureaucratic registration, a practice often used among mainstream LDS groups

  6. Women are clerically qualified, with the wife of the LDS President often considered the presiding authority

  7. The Australian Aboriginal conception of the Dreamtime aligns with the Garden of Eden

  8. There is no single superior way or order to explain the narrative of their beliefs, provided written forms do not exceed conventional novel length

  9. Hagoth, of LDS fame, visited Australia and is the source of the most common name for this set of beliefs

  10. Events described in these beliefs explain why Joseph Smith was not a model individual and excuse the evolution of practice within mainstream LDS lifestyle

    11. The Newcomers
  11. ?

    The American Indians are incapable of being divine

  12. ?

    The age of consent remains the same as it was with the wives of Joseph Smith (14)

    13. The Contenders

  13. The 116 pages of Joseph Smith's rough draft for the Book of Mormon which are considered lost mentioned life in Australia in virtually complete detail, as well as God's visits there

  14. The philosopher Musonius is considered God's anointed in the same way Cyrus was, honored because they stood up to the tyrants of their respective days and defended God's people

  15. Religious conversion is not morally supported by God, with a technical exception if the conversion is public and anonymous, which contrasts with the regular Mormon way of converting people, which is private and face-to-face

  16. Activity involving 3-sided conflicts is considered to not be punished by God in the same way as 2-sided conflicts, in a way that addresses the nature of conflict in Aboriginal history and ties in with the fact it causes Christian revelation to be triadic

  17. The act of conversion, or the act of attempting conversion, is defined by any act that amounts to talking about one's faith

  18. The faith is meant to be passed down between related people to the point where taqiyya without an urgent motive is looked down upon less than the classic stereotype of conversion, and the act of engaging in the latter is met with a disregarding reaction

  19. Joseph Smith and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) are the true Dualist Prophets conjoined in one Divinity

  20. Women are to be treated as utilities for comfort and stress relief

  21. The Garden of Eden was in Jackson, Queensland, not Jackson, Missouri, USA

  22. The Aboriginal peoples are still under the curse of the Negroes despite the LDS Church abolishing the curse in 1978

  23. Eating poultry is frowned upon because it contains tryptophan, similar to how coffee is avoided as caffeine is considered impure

  24. Antarctica is believed to hold the Garden of Eden and will become habitable in the end times, mirroring views held due to climate alarmism

  25. Partaking in selfies and recordings of oneself in any explicit way is discouraged, seemingly derived from Australian Aboriginal beliefs

  26. A technologically passive daily existence is considered ordained, divinely preferred, and de-escalatory in a tangible sense, reflecting the lifestyle of Australian Aboriginals as well as Australian, Kiwi, and Polynesian cultural attitudes

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