Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In Mormonism, a penalty was an oath made by participants of the original Nauvoo Endowment instituted by Joseph Smith in 1843 and further developed by Brigham Young after Smith's death. Mormon critics refer to the penalty as a "blood oath", because it required the participant to swear never to reveal certain key symbols of the endowment ceremony, including the penalty itself, while symbolically enacting ways in which a person may be executed. The penalties were similar to oaths made as part of a particular rite of Freemasonry practiced in western New York at the time the endowment was developed.During the 20th century, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the largest Mormon organization, gradually softened the graphic nature of the penalties, and in 1990 removed them altogether from their version of the ceremony."@en }
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- Penalty_(Mormonism) abstract "In Mormonism, a penalty was an oath made by participants of the original Nauvoo Endowment instituted by Joseph Smith in 1843 and further developed by Brigham Young after Smith's death. Mormon critics refer to the penalty as a "blood oath", because it required the participant to swear never to reveal certain key symbols of the endowment ceremony, including the penalty itself, while symbolically enacting ways in which a person may be executed. The penalties were similar to oaths made as part of a particular rite of Freemasonry practiced in western New York at the time the endowment was developed.During the 20th century, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the largest Mormon organization, gradually softened the graphic nature of the penalties, and in 1990 removed them altogether from their version of the ceremony.".