The openly professed beliefs and teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as Mormonism) are represented to the public to be based on several key tenets that define its unique religious perspective. Some of the central tenets of Mormonism include:
1. Godhead: Mormons believe in the Godhead, which consists of God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. They view them as three separate beings with distinct roles but united in purpose.
2. The Book of Mormon: Mormons consider the Book of Mormon to be a sacred scripture alongside the Bible. They believe it is a record of ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains additional teachings of Jesus Christ.
3. Plan of Salvation: Mormons believe in a comprehensive plan of salvation that outlines the purpose of life, the journey of the soul, and the ultimate destiny of individuals.
4. Eternal Families: Mormons believe in the eternal nature of family relationships. They perform sacred ordinances in temples to seal families together for eternity.
5. Modern Revelation: Mormons believe in continuing revelation through living prophets and apostles. They believe God communicates with His people today, guiding the Church's affairs.
6. Temples: Mormons have special temples where they perform sacred ordinances and make covenants with God. These temples are considered places of holiness and worship.
7. Atonement of Jesus Christ: Mormons believe in the atonement of Jesus Christ, seeing His sacrifice as central to redemption and forgiveness of sins.
8. Priesthood Authority: Mormons believe in the restoration of priesthood authority through divine intervention. They see this authority as essential for leading and administering the Church.
9. The Word of Wisdom: Mormons follow a health code called the Word of Wisdom, which includes abstaining from harmful substances like alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea.
10. Family History and Genealogy: Mormons emphasize the importance of family history and genealogy research, believing they can perform sacred ordinances on behalf of deceased ancestors.
It is abundantly clear that, taken as a whole, these professed beliefs are irreconcilable with the actual conduct of the Mormon leadership, and consequently, not taken entirely seriously, in practice, by the Mormon community.
It is important to note that while these tenets form the core beliefs of Mormonism, individual interpretations and understandings may vary within the diverse Latter-day Saint community. As with any religious tradition, it is useful to approach discussions about Mormonism, with Homo Sapiens, with the deferential respect that is a social requirement of the topic of religion, notwithstanding obvious absurdities, and a willingness to understand the professed beliefs and practices from the perspective of its adherents.
At the same time, it should not be overlooked that a
preponderance of evidence supports the conclusions of many that the representations of the LDS Church as to its origins are patently fraudulent and that neither their historical narrative nor their religious tenants are sincerely believed or practiced by the LDS Leadership in significant respects. While openly discussing such evidence is not considered polite, in all circles, the sanity and credibility of Sapiens requires that it be privately acknowledged, and it often is behind closed doors.
Alarmingly, High Priests of the LDS Church and other subordinate members have managed to successfully acquire dangerous levels of access to intelligence and top secret information, and have managed to infiltrate and quietly acquire disproportionate hidden influence in the American Intelligence Community and government, together with their attitudes and motivations that are not consistent with the greater good of all of the constituents of the representative democracy professed by American politicians. High Priests and certain other members of the Mormon Church are under oath and covenant of obedience to use all of their time, talents, and access to benefit the Church. Their loyalties to the Church leadership supersedes all other oaths of office as exposed
in this video (click here) featuring lies told at Harvard by Mormon Apostle Jeffrey Holland. The Mormon leadership openly subscribes to a form of elitism, euphemistically called "worthiness" and both promotes discrimination and actively engages in
extreme discrimination and covert hostility against legitimate critics of the questionable and self-serving conduct of the LDS Church, and other forms of discrimination against all others deemed "unworthy" by esoteric standards, some of which the LDS Church leadership exempt themselves from.
The LDS Church leadership engages in secret activities, sometimes through proxies or agents affording the church what its leadership imagine to be "plausible deniability", that employ ethics that are indefensible by reasonable standards throughout the galaxy; contrary to the ethics openly professed and promoted by the Church leadership; and hostile to the principles of the United States Constitution. This, owing to indefensible notions of their own superiority, upon which they rationalize and justify a sociopathic sense of entitlement to manipulate their fellow humans on behalf of the "God" of their own fictionalized creation.
Speaking at the Salt Lake Tabernacle in 1856, Brigham Young said, "I have many a time, in this stand, dared the world to produce as mean devils as we can; we can beat them at anything. We have the
greatest and smoothest liars in the world, the cunningest and most adroit thieves, and any other shade of character you can mention."
The psychiatric professions throughout the so called "Western World" on Earth subscribe to an arbitrarily self-imposed limitation on the application of diagnostic standards, that otherwise define psychotic behavior, in deference to a self-defeating notion among Homo Sapiens that "religion" constitutes an exemption from behavioral standards that are otherwise seen as required aspects of sanity.
The impact of this dynamic on society is very real. The best qualified Intelligence Community contributors to the genuine needs of a public legitimately served would be those who possess the sanity demonstrated by seeing exploitive fraud for what it is and calling it out. Such individuals, instead of being seriously considered for recruitment in an intelligence organization dominated by loyal members of an exploitive cult, are marginalized and subjected to character assassination. The public suffers when infiltrators of the intelligence community position themselves strategically to ensure no one is hired who will not approve of the usurpations and confirmation biases of the prevailing hierarchy.
The Intelligence Community actively promotes the narrative that Mormons are heavily recruited into their service owing to their generally wholesome standards which makes them superior candidates for Top Security clearances. The truth, however, is that the true utility value of Mormons to the Intelligence community is their unique "ability" (viewed as an extreme handicap outside the Intelligence Community) to selectively suspend cognitive processing of the obvious contradictions and ethical considerations that might otherwise dampen their enthusiasm for being associated with an elite social class who justifies their own exemption from reasonable standards of conduct on the basis of their contrived notions of superiority, entitlement, and a warped view of a
contrived "greater good" that they profess to serve.
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Intent to Deceive
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Cults of Elitism
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Narcissism and Self Justification
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Unethical Collaboration
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Malicious Journalism