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<\/a>My attention has been called to a Latter-day Saint blog \u2014 located, like mine, here on Patheos \u2014 that is entitled Ye Shall Prosper in the Land<\/em>. \u00a0The entry that I first read on it was this one: \u00a0\u201cWho Is Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk and What Happened?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 It turns out that former Senator Mitt Romney, Senators John Curtis and Mike Lee, and especially Governor Spencer Cox may well be involved in Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination; that the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was very likely staged; and, for that matter, that Charlie Kirk may actually still be alive.<\/p>\n Intrigued by these insights, I decided to browse further on Ye Shall Prosper in the Land<\/em>. \u00a0I haven\u2019t yet had time to read more than three or four entries, but I can certainly recommend \u201cShould Latter-Day Saints Eat Cheetos?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0as well as \u201cHas The Lord\u2019s Church Lost Its Way?\u201d<\/a> \u00a0And \u201cEveryone Is Lying To You\u201d<\/a> is definitely worth careful contemplation:<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the biggest surprises for me and lots of fellow Latter-day Saints I\u2019ve talked to about this unfortunate situation is that our own church leaders were at best willfully ignorant about the lies involved with COVID-19, and at worst were complicit with them. There followed a massive loss of trust by some of the most faithful Latter-day Saints towards those who they previously had seen as the Lord\u2019s watchmen on the tower. I have personally seen many individuals and families who have either left the Church or who are now feeling marginalized and wondering what the future holds for them as they can no longer sustain a group of men who knowingly lied to them about something so critical. . . .<\/p>\n \u201cThe entire premise of vaccines is a lie. <\/strong>God created each of his children with an immune system that was sufficient for keeping us healthy unless we treat our bodies poorly.<\/p>\n \u201cContrary to government\u2019s and Rockefeller healthcare\u2019s death grip on the information and perspective we\u2019re \u201callowed\u201d towards vaccines (i.e. that they\u2019re necessary for survival), vaccines do nothing to improve health, and they do a lot to destroy it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Two scriptural passages come to my mind:<\/p>\n Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, a<\/span>nd say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. <\/span>Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. (Matthew 23:29-31)<\/span><\/p>\n A<\/span>nd the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people . . . \u00a0[E]very man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall. \u00a0(Doctrine and Covenants 1:14, 16)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And I think of this story, recounted by the late President Marion G. Romney:<\/p>\n \u201cOne day when President Grant was living, I sat in my office across the street following a general conference. A man came over to see me, an elderly man. He was very upset about what had been said in this conference by some of the Brethren, including myself. I could tell from his speech that he came from a foreign land. After I had quieted him enough so he would listen, I said, \u2018Why did you come to America?\u2019 \u2018I am here because a prophet of God told me to come.\u2019 \u2018Who was the prophet,\u2019 I continued. \u2018Wilford Woodruff.\u2019 \u2018Do you believe Wilford Woodruff was a prophet of God?\u2019 \u2018Yes, I do.\u2019 \u2018Do you believe that President Joseph\u00a0F. Smith was a prophet of God?\u2019 \u2018Yes, sir.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThen came the sixty-four dollar question. \u2018Do you believe that Heber\u00a0J. Grant is a prophet of God?\u2019 His answer, \u2018I think he ought to keep his mouth shut about old age assistance.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cNow I tell you that a man in his position is on the way to apostasy. He is forfeiting his chances for eternal life. So is everyone who cannot follow the living Prophet of God.\u201d [In Conference Report<\/em>, April 1953, 125]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As an example of the deceptive propaganda being fed to us by evil and designing \u201cexperts,\u201d I offer this, from an infectious disease physician named Jake Scott<\/a>, who is based at Stanford University\u2019s School of Medicine<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve worked with infectious diseases for years \u2014 vaccines are safe and effective:\u00a0The evidence for vaccine safety and efficacy exists in overwhelming abundance, accessible to anyone willing to examine it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Although it comes from MSNBC, a left-leaning news source that I don\u2019t much like and that I look at perhaps once annually, I found the article interesting. \u00a0It is the text of testimony that Dr. Scott presented to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on 9 September 2025, about a week ago.<\/p>\n In view of the position for which Dr. Scott argues, I presume that he\u2019s a Communist, a Marxist, and a Muslim, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Skull and Bones, the Jesuits, Antifa, and the Bohemian Club, and that what he says can be dismissed without further attention as a conspiratorial tissue of lies.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Two new items went up yesterday on the static and unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n The Interpreter Foundation Podcast \u2014 September 3: The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and Evolution<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n For the 3 September 2025 episode of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, Terry Hutchinson and Martin Tanner discussed with special guest Ben Spackman the newly published The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and Evolution<\/em>, edited by Jamie L. Jensen, Steven L. Peck, Ugo A. Perego, and T. Benjamin Spackman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe Angel<\/em>: A Review,\u201d<\/a> written by Stephen O. Smoot<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor many Latter-day Saints, the word horror<\/em> may sound like the opposite of anything uplifting or edifying. In cinema, the genre often conjures images of gratuitous violence, demonic spectacle, or nihilistic despair.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I was saddened to read, a few days ago, of the passing of a man whom I first met in London many years ago, before he had been called to serve as a General Authority:<\/p>\n \u201cScottish emeritus General Authority Seventy, Elder David S. Baxter, dies at age 70:\u00a0Elder Baxter, who served as a General Authority Seventy since 2006, received emeritus status last month\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n It was in connection with an event at the British Library for BYU\u2019s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. \u00a0Brother Baxter, was a high-ranking British Church leader and a senior executive with British Telecom at the time, and he had taken a leading role in organizing the event. \u00a0I was deeply impressed with him, and I was impressed by what other members of the Church told me about him in conversation. \u00a0They were dazzled by his competence. \u00a0If something needed to be done, they told me, no matter how difficult it might be, you just had to ask David Baxter to handle it and it would get done.<\/p>\n He was also remarkably gracious. \u00a0Unassuming. \u00a0Kind. \u00a0Not at all smitten with his already high status in the Church and his lofty position in British industry. \u00a0But it is a very slight story from years after that event in the British Library that sticks in my mind as an illustration: \u00a0Quite a few years back, I gave a presentation that Elder Baxter attended. \u00a0I didn\u2019t see him in the audience until afterwards, when he came up to speak with me. \u00a0We talked for a while, and then he made a comment that surprised me very much: \u00a0\u201cMy wife will be so jealous,\u201d he said, \u201cthat I got a chance to visit with you tonight.\u201d \u00a0I was amazed that a man of such accomplishment, a General Authority, considered it a remarkable thing to talk with me<\/em>.<\/p>\n I have no doubt that, although his life was too short by our standards and although it was too limited by a lengthy and grave illness \u2014 David Baxter has been joyfully welcomed home from his mortal sojourn of service, faithfulness, and discipleship. \u00a0\u201cWell done, thou good and faithful servant. \u00a0Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.\u201d<\/p>\n I close with two additional horrors that I\u2019ve retrieved for you from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u2122:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 My attention has been called to a Latter-day Saint blog \u2014 located, like mine, here on Patheos \u2014 that is entitled Ye Shall Prosper in the Land. \u00a0The entry that I first read on it was this one: \u00a0\u201cWho Is Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk and What Happened?\u201d\u00a0 It turns out that former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":42569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39167,39164,249,2905,788,14432],"class_list":["post-112880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-david-baxter","tag-evolution","tag-latter-day-saint","tag-mormon","tag-vaccination"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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