Senator Mike Lee: Trump's another Captain Moroni!

[deacon blues]

Oh brother! https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/20 ... ys-donald/
I apologize if this is too political, but it's the "mormon-inanity" of it that makes me. . .

[Red Ryder]

[moksha]

Has anybody in the Church responded to this insult on Captain Moroni?

Was Elder Lee suffering from heatstroke in the Arizona sun when he made this Sieg Heil?

[græy]

You just have to understand his comments in the context of scripture.

Alma 48: 17-18

Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Donald Trump, behold, the very powers of democracy would have been shaken forever; yeah, truth would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.

Behold, he was a man like unto Noah, the son of Zeniff, and even the priests of King Noah, yea, and also Cain and his sons, for they were all men of dishonesty, deceit, and selfishness.

At least, that's how Lee remembers it.

[wtfluff]

You just have to understand his comments in the context of scripture.

Alma 48: 17-18

Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Donald Trump, behold, the very powers of democracy would have been shaken forever; yeah, truth would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.

Behold, he was a man like unto Noah, the son of Zeniff, and even the priests of King Noah, yea, and also Cain and his sons, for they were all men of dishonesty, deceit, and selfishness.

At least, that's how Lee remembers it.

Ha! The original version of that "used to be" one of my favorite fictional passages.

Your new version, græy, is so brilliant... Well, I might have to print it out and tape it to my mirror.

[Not Buying It]

Idiot.

[alas]

Captain Moron—I.

[moksha]

Kevin Christiansen from MD&D put it well:

Having read the Book of Mormon, and Nibley's essay on Freeman and Kingman in the Book of Mormon, I missed the parts of the story where Captain Moroni paid off mistresses, separated children from refugee parents as deterrent, hired corrupt and ignorant people to undermine the government, flattered and schmoozed tyrants, stacked the courts, deregulated environmental and financial protections, sought to gut healthcare, refused to personally go down to battle himself (bone spur deferments), denigrated science, undermined relationships with close allies, cut both taxes and accountability for the rich, demonized immigrants and refugees, pressured Ukraine to provide smears of his legitimate political opponents, had his science office declare victory over a pandemic at the same time that infections set new record highs and leading all nations in deaths by a shocking margin, demonstrating in every divisive superspreader rally that he cares nothing for the blood of his people, and lied constantly and shamelessly.

I think the Church needs to speak up before Lee requests that Trump be placed alongside the Christus statue in the Visitor's Center.

[DPRoberts]

ROFLMAO

[Hagoth]

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[wtfluff]

I think the Church needs to speak up before Lee requests that Trump be placed alongside the Christus statue in the Visitor's Center.

Or...

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[oliblish]

I think the Church needs to speak up before Lee requests that Trump be placed alongside the Christus statue in the Visitor's Center.

Or...

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I think that was a different Moroni...

[wtfluff]

I think the Church needs to speak up before Lee requests that Trump be placed alongside the Christus statue in the Visitor's Center.

Or...

MORONi-Trump.jpg

I think that was a different Moroni...

Meh. True Believers won't care...

[wtfluff]

[græy]

[Mormorrisey]

I thought this tweet from Will Swenson was great:

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[moksha]

Captain Moroni would have never referred to the fallen Stripling Warriors as "a bunch of losers" as Trump did to the American veterans buried in France.

[Wonderment]

This is absolutely great from the Tribune. Their cartoonist is telling it like it is. - Wndr.

[Wonderment]

The golden statue photo is great also ! Watch out for a golden statue to appear in the Visitors' Center. :Wndr.

[Not Buying It]

I thought this tweet from Will Swenson was great:


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Perfect!

All joking aside, the Church really should have spoken out about one of their religious figures being co-opted by an idiot politician. But hey, if the Church is OK with it, before long every politician in Utah will be comparing themselves or whoever they support to Book of Mormon heroes. And everyone else can think the place is even crazier than they already do.