by Dan Wees | Aug 23, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Bonneville International Corporation [LDS owned communications corporation] receives approval today from this Commission [FCC] to add to its stable of industrial and mass media properties an AM radio station, and an FM radio station, in the second largest market in...
by Dan Wees | Aug 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“It might seem strange, almost slightly blasphemous, to refer to a church as a corporation, but the analogy here is simply inescapable. The Church is undeniably corporate.” Jeffery Kaye, New West – 8 May 1978, “An Invisible Empire: Mormon Money in California”...
by Dan Wees | Aug 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Analysis of Joseph Smith’s ‘Civil War Prophecy’ (D&C 87)… “Very thus saith the Lord, concerning the…” Four weeks before this prophecy, on 24 November 1832, a tariff nullification ordinance was passed in South Carolina. This ordinance dismissed...
by Dan Wees | Aug 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Although transcribed in 1832, this [Civil War] prophecy did not appear in any LDS publication until 1851 (in the Pearl of Great Price), and then again in 1854 (in The Seer). On both occasions, however, it was not considered Holy Scripture, as it is today. Only after...
by Dan Wees | Aug 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The South will secede from the North, and the North will secede from us, and God will make this people free as fast as we are able to bear it… The day is not far distant when you will see us as free as the air we breathe, and we will be ruled by those men whom...
by Dan Wees | Aug 21, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“In the past decade [1984-1994], potential jurors in every Utah capital homicide were asked whether they believed in the Mormon concept of ‘Blood Atonement.’” Salt Lake Tribune – 5 November 1994 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Salt Lake Tribune, 1994),...
