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Originally posted by sycamore
IWolf, was it you that was telling me about the Hawaiian cultural center and its Mormon connection?
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Yes, it was.
To recap for everybody else ... a friend of mine travelled to Hawaii, and came back telling exciting tales of a "Hawaiian and Polynesian Cultural Center" that she and her daughters had been to. In addition to showing me their own photographs of the place, she had the brochure. I flipped through to the back and saw the LDS info, and replied "Oh, so you went to a museum which shows element of the traditional culture that the Mormons are working so hard to eradicate?"
She had noticed the Mormon stuff, but never really made the connection. She's a good hearted woman, but not all that swift on the uptake. She was once astonished to find that before Jesus, pretty much everyone was pagan. Blew her mind.
Anyway ... here's an article on the Hawaiian Mormons:
http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/oahu.html
And here's what they have to say about themselves:
http://w3.byuh.edu/devotionals/media...924britsch.htm