Shupe's research is extremely accurate with the CIA recruitment of blindly-obedient LDS members who have been brainwashed to "follow the prophet" because "when the prophet has spoken the thinking has been done." This is a must read expose of what really goes on behind the Mormon Money-driven Empire which is devoid of spirituality or revelation by the so-called Profits [sic]/Prophets (who are not as foretold in D&C 64)
Also the LDS temple ceremony prior to 1990 required the pantomine of the blood oath penalty to "suffer your life to be taken" if you revealed the dark secrets of the temple. We had to take our thumb across our throat as if slitting our throat, act like we were cutting our our heart and disemboweling our intestines. This was the "sacred" penalty if we talked about any of the masonic ritual secrets we did in the temple. Common sense would have a thinking person reflect on the simple and pure teachings of Jesus Christ who warned us to NEVER swear by heaven or earth or by our head (or neck) to "only say yea, yea, or nay, nay as ANYTHING more than this comes of EVIL."
Also, investigate polygamy and masonry which Joseph Smith was warned of (D&C 3:1-11 e.g. "following his own will and CARNAL DESIRES or he would fall") and the little-known fact that Joseph Smith REPENTED of polygamy and masonry (see D. Michael Quinn's award-winning LDS research; Mormon Hiearchay of Power) just weeks prior to his MASONIC murder. An excellent resource for how it really was is contained in Eliza Ann Young's historical account of the goodness of the church prior to the infiltration and justification (for adultery) of polygamy and masonry and how evil it was afterwards. People were murdered (blood atonement preached and carried out by Brigham Young e.g. Mountain Meadow Massacre) by "Danite Warriors" for dissension and then it was blamed on the Indians.
Then you can see why the Book of Mormon warns prophetically of an apostacy after the restoration. Joseph Smith had seven good years (no polygamy, masonry, priesthood for the women and blacks, and no alteration of the Book of Mormon e.g. taking out the "plain and precious truths"
We've seen Monson giving a satanic masonic "sacred"? handshake with Bush as depicted in a newspaper photo (SLTribune/Deseret News) as a hint of the scandals behind the facade of "all is well in Zion." Do your research and wake up sheep of Utah; the most depressed/corrupt state in the U.S!
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The Darker Side of Virtue: Corruption, Scandal, and the Mormon Empire Hardcover – May 1, 1991
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Anson Shupe
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherPrometheus Books
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Publication dateMay 1, 1991
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Dimensions6.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
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ISBN-100879756543
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Focusing on the highly visible Mormons, Shupe, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Indiana/Purdue universities, observes no lack of moral difficulties among this religious minority; indeed, he argues, their old-fashioned values place the Mormons at special risk within the American mainstream. Citing loyalty to the "Mormon Mafia" as the "dark side" of patriotism, and detailing the Latter-day Saints' disturbing involvement with the U.S. intelligence community, Shupe draws a startling picture of Mormon influence, including preferential treatment of LDS agents in the FBI and the Church's supposed culpability in the Challenger explosion, a case of white-collar crime. His controversial, negative view of the Latter-day Saints is not altogether credible.
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Shupe writes about the different "suspicious" events that the Mormon Church has undeniably been a part of. I checked most of his information out and found it to be extremely accurate. An excellent, easy to read, well written book.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2011
Anson D. Shupe (b. 1948) is an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct. He has also written books such as
In the Name of All That's Holy: A Theory of Clergy Malfeasance
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Televangelism, Power and Politics on God's Frontier
, and
The Mormon Corporate Empire
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He wrote in the first chapter of this 1991 book, "Mormonism represents a moral beacon anchored firmly to bedrock in a sea of relative values and situation morality. Even the faith's theological opponents in other denominations give it that much in grudging admiration. But all is not as it seems. There is a darker side to many of these well-known Mormon virtues. They can be two-edged swords, destructive as well as constructive to those who unquestionably take them for granted." (Pg. 10)
Here are some other quotations from the book:
"(After the Mark Hofmann murders) Concerns were also fueled by the possibility that, at a time when the LDS Church hierarchy had become especially touchy about critical 'historical research' by scholars, some rogue squad of LDS Security enforcers might be running amok, marking victims it considered dangerous to Church interests." (Pg. 78)
"Thus, respected historian Leonard Arrington was demoted from Church Historian to head of the Church's lower status Historical Department, complete with budget and staff cuts, and his works on the history of the Church... were indefinitely placed on hold while still in press. By the early 1980s, Arrington was even removed from the Historical Department, replaced by a Church loyalist who could be counted on not to make waves." (Pg. 85)
"Ironically, it was the anti-LDS evangelical Christian Utah Lighthouse Ministry, operated by ex-Mormon Sandra Tanner and her husband Jerald, that first questioned the authenticity of the Salamander letter." (Pg. 93-94)
"State and federal statistics do not break down the forms of abuse by religious affiliation. Therefore they cannot be of use to detect how much of child and sexual abuse violence is LDS as opposed to Gentile. But Utah is approximately 70 percent Mormon. Is the one-third of the population that is Gentile disproportionately engaging in child abuse? Counselors and coordinators of social services for abused victims and abusers doubt it." (Pg. 112)
"Modern Mormon families... face special factors that can add to the risk of abuse in the home. Mormon households encounter economic pressure from the Church's well-known emphasis on large families and condemnation of birth control while simultaneously discouraging women from working outside the home." (Pg. 114)
"Parapatriotism is a spinoff of the once more frequently found Mormon sense of millennialism: that the current order of things in society will soon be displaced by Jesus Christ's return, with such a view, ultimate allegiance in a conflict of interest involving like-minded religionists should go to one's Church and fellow believers, for they alone will persist." (Pg. 139)
He wrote in the first chapter of this 1991 book, "Mormonism represents a moral beacon anchored firmly to bedrock in a sea of relative values and situation morality. Even the faith's theological opponents in other denominations give it that much in grudging admiration. But all is not as it seems. There is a darker side to many of these well-known Mormon virtues. They can be two-edged swords, destructive as well as constructive to those who unquestionably take them for granted." (Pg. 10)
Here are some other quotations from the book:
"(After the Mark Hofmann murders) Concerns were also fueled by the possibility that, at a time when the LDS Church hierarchy had become especially touchy about critical 'historical research' by scholars, some rogue squad of LDS Security enforcers might be running amok, marking victims it considered dangerous to Church interests." (Pg. 78)
"Thus, respected historian Leonard Arrington was demoted from Church Historian to head of the Church's lower status Historical Department, complete with budget and staff cuts, and his works on the history of the Church... were indefinitely placed on hold while still in press. By the early 1980s, Arrington was even removed from the Historical Department, replaced by a Church loyalist who could be counted on not to make waves." (Pg. 85)
"Ironically, it was the anti-LDS evangelical Christian Utah Lighthouse Ministry, operated by ex-Mormon Sandra Tanner and her husband Jerald, that first questioned the authenticity of the Salamander letter." (Pg. 93-94)
"State and federal statistics do not break down the forms of abuse by religious affiliation. Therefore they cannot be of use to detect how much of child and sexual abuse violence is LDS as opposed to Gentile. But Utah is approximately 70 percent Mormon. Is the one-third of the population that is Gentile disproportionately engaging in child abuse? Counselors and coordinators of social services for abused victims and abusers doubt it." (Pg. 112)
"Modern Mormon families... face special factors that can add to the risk of abuse in the home. Mormon households encounter economic pressure from the Church's well-known emphasis on large families and condemnation of birth control while simultaneously discouraging women from working outside the home." (Pg. 114)
"Parapatriotism is a spinoff of the once more frequently found Mormon sense of millennialism: that the current order of things in society will soon be displaced by Jesus Christ's return, with such a view, ultimate allegiance in a conflict of interest involving like-minded religionists should go to one's Church and fellow believers, for they alone will persist." (Pg. 139)
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2008
Latter-Day Saints are some of the most "saintly", commandment keeping, genuinely kind people on the planet! If only there were more of them! This confused account is not accurate.
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