Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p In the Mormonism, a penalty was an oath made by participants of the original Nauvoo Endowment instituted by Joseph Smith, Jr. 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, the largest Mormon organization, gradually softened the graphic nature of the penalties, and eventually removed them from their version of the ceremony in 1990, together with a number of other controversial aspects of the ceremony.. }
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- Penalty_(Mormonism) abstract "In the Mormonism, a penalty was an oath made by participants of the original Nauvoo Endowment instituted by Joseph Smith, Jr. 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, the largest Mormon organization, gradually softened the graphic nature of the penalties, and eventually removed them from their version of the ceremony in 1990, together with a number of other controversial aspects of the ceremony.".