March 17, 2005
The Church of Jesus Christ in Zion is sect of Mormonism. They recognizes Roger Billings, who invented the first hydrogen fueled car, as a prophet
Billings, is a scientist, engineer and inventor prior to creating his own sect.
The Billings Business Computer was an early competitor of Apple and he was the originator of many ideas in spreadsheets, databases, etc. He has now created his own following of people who practice the doctrine polygamy as well as other teachings of the fundamentalist beliefs among his members.(more inside)
The Billings Business Computer was an early competitor of Apple and he was the originator of many ideas in spreadsheets, databases, etc. He has now created his own following of people who practice the doctrine polygamy as well as other teachings of the fundamentalist beliefs among his members.(more inside)
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ in Zion are followers of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr, but they believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has strayed from Smith's teachings. The church claims that Smith restored Priesthood keys to Ken Asay, who ordained Billings to be a Prophet and the Patriarch of Zion prior to Asay's death in 1985. The church operates an alternative science and math educational program named the International Academy of Science. Billings runs a number of businesses, including WideBand Corporation (a high-speed networking company), Billings Energy Corporation (a hydrogen fuel-cell research company), and Acellus Labs (a system of educational software).
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Turing was crazy too. Grok?
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Sssssh. Don't say another word. You had me at polygamy.
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More info here.
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Great link Squid. Much more info than I had ever read on Roger Billings. I knew there was someplace up in Gallatin that was considered the Garden of Eden by this cult, but my envision of the Garden of Eden has a much lower humidity in the summer and much less freezing in the winter.(missouri joke)
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The Mormons are a facinating group and one of the fastest growing churches in christendom. Not only that, but they have a lot of strange offshoots. My mom was raised in a jack-mormon family in SLC and I had a bunch of mormon friends growing up as a kid in Southern California. Only recently have I been reading about the early days of the church. One book, written by a believing mormon, yet still not afraid to poke under the rocks, is No Man Knows My History, an unvarnished look at the beginnings of this "cult" which became one of the most powerful protestant churches.