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FreeState

(10,571 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 09:19 PM Jul 2018

Ammon Bundy claims LDS Church infiltrated by socialists

These guys are insane. Harry Reid, along with almost every active Mormon male above the age of 40 is usually a high priest.

https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/ammon-bundy-claims-lds-church-infiltrated-by-socialists/article_0606cac8-f943-5ff6-a8a6-2827a871d87f.html

Ammon Bundy claims LDS Church infiltrated by socialists

Ammon Bundy, a constitutional rights defender to his allies and a domestic terrorist to his critics, spoke in Smithfield on Wednesday and claimed that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is a devout member, has been infiltrated by socialists, globalists and environmentalists.

He claimed that the federal government’s prosecution of him and his supporters following confrontations in Nevada and Oregon is really a “battle of high priests” of the LDS Church. He said his father, himself and his attorney are all high priests in the church, but so are the lead U.S. attorney prosecuting his family, the chief judge in Oregon and former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid.

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Ammon Bundy claims LDS Church infiltrated by socialists (Original Post) FreeState Jul 2018 OP
! rurallib Jul 2018 #1
The guy who abuses government property for personal gain SHRED Jul 2018 #2
So there's hope? dchill Jul 2018 #3
"Battle of the High Priests"? Throckmorton Jul 2018 #4
So if you're an LDS member lordsummerisle Jul 2018 #5
So that means that the Mormons are actually doing something good? Initech Jul 2018 #6
FYI Amon, The Early LDS WAS Socialist Vogon_Glory Jul 2018 #7
United Order - Mormon Socialism FreeState Jul 2018 #8
Cool. Eating their own. shanny Jul 2018 #9

lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
5. So if you're an LDS member
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jul 2018

you can't be a socialist, globalist or environmentalist?
Is that in the bylaws somewhere?

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
7. FYI Amon, The Early LDS WAS Socialist
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 09:53 PM
Jul 2018

As I recall from my historical reading, the early Church of the Latter-Day Saints WAS pretty socialist. The ZCMI Department Store was ownedby the LDS Church and remained under church ownership until 1999.

Maybe some of the Mormons have decided that a bit of socialism is preferable to savage capitalism and an I’ve-got-mine mindset?

In which case Ammon, tough Kibbles!

FreeState

(10,571 posts)
8. United Order - Mormon Socialism
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 09:59 PM
Jul 2018
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Order

It was practice by the early church members. They still believe that when Jesus comes back this is the way things will be done.

It seems almost every cult begins with some way of its leader getting all of the possessions of its members possible. I think that’s where this came from.
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