TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Steve Davis has always been an Open Book within the Mormon Church leadership because he believes in direct communication with angels.  He has been monitored since 1957 after he was saved by a guardian angel while he was being drug to his death by a runaway horse at the age of seven.  ATLAS was created by Steve and Clyde Davis after a June, 2003 experience in Utah County where Karen and Steve Davis spent weeks in the Utah County Jail for Civil Contempt Charges for telling the truth about Utah corruption.  Many times between June-August, 2003 were the lives of Karen and Steve threatened by Zions Banker, Gordon B. Hinckley (1968-1990 served on the bank board and controlled the money-laundering of billions of dollars of tithing and other donation revenue through CIA NYFederal Reserve bank account – Central Dominion Trust, $6 Trillion) and finally Banker Hinckley had their civil records converted to “criminal” to the FBI in Washington DC in an attempt to discredit them.  Currently there is a St. Louis FBI investigation in this matter.  Muslim extremists have monitored LDS missionaries for years and their US federal jobs after college graduation!

Attached are copies of this bank account and funds channeled to the FBI by a client of Paul J. Young, a Mormon tax revolt specialist who worked for the White House during the 1983-1986 Iran/Nicaraguan Contra scam with Col. Oliver North and VP/former CIA Director George Bush Sr.  Paul Young was a Mormon Missionary in Nicaragua when Howard Hughes lived at a hotel in that Central America nation.  Steve Davis deliberately hired Paul J. Young in 1998 to expose his secret knowledge of illegal bank laundering by Bush Sr. during the 1980s.  The attempted murder of President Reagan was under the direction of the Bush Family in March, 1981, two months after Reagan became President of the US.  In a 1985 meeting between Steve and President Reagan in Washington DC, both discussed the attempted assassination and Nancy Reagan firing Stephen M. Studdert for being in charge of this 1981 action (plus other attempts)

http://www.stopzion.com/

http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2003/02/02-4110.htm

In 1999 Paul J. Young wrote letters to Mormon President Gordon B. Hinckley and the Mormon Church law firm, Kirton & McConkie warning them about their debt to Steve Davis.  Between 2005-2010 Paul Young was a Federal Felon in high security prison facilities until he had a court hearing before Federal Judge Dee Benson on June 29, 2010 when he became a free man (court transcript available upon request).  Paul had agreed to destroy Steve Davis through a secret deal with Kirton & McConkie so he could keep his Temple Recommend and attend secret sessions in these Masonic Mormon Temples (located all over the world and financed through the money stolen from Steve Davis) and keep working with CIA/FBI agents in money-laundering transactions currently going on through US Treasury Secretary Timothy Franz Geithner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner

The Mormon Church’s Mission Training Centers all throughout the world are the most professional and concise CIA brainwashing machine facilities at it’s best.  It is a system of perfection and trains young men to become “ac/dc gay” (boy’s club) and young women to become “ac/dc lesbians” (celestial wives), all Mind Controlled to follow their leaders blindly in seeking out the conversion of the wealthy throughout the world through a precision operation connected with LDS CIA/FBI agents in the world of financial money-laundering.  This system began it’s quest as a financial machine in 1990 when all ward organizations throughout the world centralized the offerings of members to go directly to Salt Lake City every Sunday night.  Presiding Bishop Robert Hales and H. Clyde Davis directed this centralized financial machine when they hired Ray Anderson from Chase Manhattan Bank, who did this money-laundering for years for David Rockefeller.  Chase Manhattan Bank had a $100 Million lien on Temple Square (Florida Deseret Ranch debt) in 1967 when Clyde Davis got Robert Vincent de Olivierri to pay off the loan.  Robert was the second richest man in the world from Switzerland at the time and a “LDS convert” through this brainwashing missionary operation.

In 1969 after Steve and Clyde Davis got the BYU to give a loan to Bullion Monarch Mining to develop the invisible gold extraction (heap-leach process) process when Gold was only worth $32/ounce, Steve left on an LDS Mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil where he taught leaders of the Mormon Church the importance in allowing each individual (missionary & member families in the mission field) to speak through Example rather than through a process of exact worded lessons.  Missionary Steve challenged his Mission President, Sherman H. Hibbert, to stop giving special benefits for the “numbers game of baptism” after Steve exposed swimming party/cemetery baptism operations by glory seeking missionaries.

In the latter years of his life, H. Clyde Davis was over the “older couples group” as their Branch President at the Provo MTC for years while he also worked as the entrance patron at the Provo Temple.  After his grandson, Olympian Rulon Gardner beat the 4^th richest Russian at the 2000 Australian Olympics, Clyde would display Rulon many times during the years of 2001-2005 to his MTC congregations, special firesides and gatherings.  He enjoyed the dynasty and glory in being in charge and giving pep talks in these strategic positions.  For his reward in these positions, he gladly sold out his son, Steve Davis, to the brethren in their fight against his whistle-blowing on-slaught since 1995 when Steve declared war against Gordon Bitner Hinckley, the Anti-Christ (identified to Steve during his NDE in October, 1960 as a 10 year old, as the person who was the next called “apostle” by dictator David O. McKay), and his own family which hated his success through service in restoring the 1830 Original Book of Mormon and 1833 Book of Commandments as the “scriptures” for the latter-day saints through special near death experiences of 1957 and 1960 in Tucson, Arizona where the Mormon leaders discovered the fact that Steve Davis had a guardian angel (his deceased uncle/real birth-father), Uncle DeMar Rust.

The following article gives a reader an excellent presentation of how people are taught to become professional salesmen with the Altered Gospel and Freemasonry (perfection and secret oaths) Mind Control training at it’s best.

ATLAS Cities of Commerce

Editor's note: This is the first in a three-day series offering a closer look at how the LDS Church trains missionaries before they are sent into the field.

Mormon church's Provo MTC: Exclusive look of the largest missionary training facility in the world

By Scott Taylor, Deseret News, Sunday, March 20, 2011

PROVO — From MLI to LTM to MTC and from TE to TRC to TALL, this is not your father's missionary training experience anymore.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700120167/Mormon-churchs-Provo-MTC-Exclusive-look-of-the-largest-missionary-training-facility-in-the-world.html?pg=1

And certainly not your grandfather's.

With a current missionary force of 53,660 volunteering 18 months to two years of their lives to spread the good word worldwide, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in its ninth decade of formal missionary training and celebrating its golden anniversary of centralized language instruction.

And it is taking its missionary training across the globe and into the future, coupling a 10-year expansion project and technological advances at its flagship Provo Missionary Training Center with 14 satellite facilities in as many countries.

These missionaries "fill the Lord's mandate to go into all the world and preach the gospel," said Elder Richard G. Hinckley of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy and executive director of the church's Missionary Department.

"And they do so willingly. They don't know what they're getting into, for the most part, unless they've had siblings or close friends who have served — they do a wonderful job. They're young, they're inexperienced, and by the time they come home, they are mature and wonderful young people."

And the start of that service begins at a training center.

In 1925, the LDS Church established its Church Missionary Home and Preparatory Training School — or the Salt Lake Mission Home — where outgoing missionaries spent up to a week in training and preparation.

Fifty years ago this fall, the church created a Missionary Language Institute (MLI) on the BYU campus for Spanish-speaking missionaries. The name evolved into the Language Training Mission, with additional languages added and similar language-specific programs spread to at church colleges in Idaho and Hawaii.

In 1976, a separate LTM complex was designed and constructed near the BYU campus, while a year later, the first international missionary training center arose, in Brazil. And in 1978, the LTM became Provo's flagship Missionary Training Center, to prepare and refine all missionaries, not just those learning a language.

But don't think the "language" aspect is lessened with the change of names and focus. The Provo MTC still trains in 52 different languages, serving as the starting point for all missionaries called to serve in the church's North America missions and for many North Americans serving in foreign countries.

English-speakers train for three weeks before departing for their assigned areas. Those learning a language remain for eight weeks — 12 weeks for more difficult languages such as Russian, Finnish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese.

Provo MTC director Richard I. Heaton says the real story of the MTC is found in the missionaries themselves and in their sacrifices and struggles in what he calls "a place of growth."

"They become strong and powerful people to go on to the next level — the mission field — where they go through the same struggles again," he said.

Heaton adds that perhaps the MTC is best described for what it is not. "It's not a boot camp where you drive them, nor is it an intensive program where you break them down to build them back up. … we're not baby-sitting missionaries or trying to get them to comply or control them, to have them become robots."

Rather, the missionaries are expected to benefit from the regimen and self-discipline. "It doesn't force you as much as it allows you to develop these habits," said Elder Bryan Lozano of Long Beach, Calif., preparing to speak Spanish in the Texas San Antonio Mission.

Provo MTC President Gordon D. Brown underscores the spiritual nature of missionary training. "I call it 'the Lord's university' — I really see it that way," he said, adding, "I've never felt the (presence of God) like I've felt it here. This is a holy sanctuary of the Lord's; this is sacred ground."

Missionaries like Elder Payton Holt of Bountiful, also destined for the San Antonio mission, echo those sentiments. "The MTC has really prepared me spiritually and doctrinally," he said. "It has surprised me how quickly one can learn about the gospel."

The Provo MTC hosts an average of about 2,000 missionaries at a time — reaching nearly 2,900 in July and August as more missionaries arrive between school years.

Able to accommodate nearly 4,000 missionaries, the Provo MTC started reaching that level in the 1990s before the expansion of international MTCs. Now nearly a third of all missionaries are trained outside of the United States.

While most think of Mormon missionaries in terms of 19-year-old or 20-something young men in white shirts and ties, an increasing number of young women, older single women and retired senior couples help comprise the missionary force. The young men welcome their female counterparts and older missionary peers with the appropriate courtesies.

"They open the doors, take our luggage, return our lunch trays," said Sister Lindsay Farr of North Ogden, training for the China Hong Kong Mission.

"They treat us like princesses," agreed Sister Diondre Darcey of Tulsa, Okla., also off to Hong Kong.

Elder Jim Okeson and Sister Jeanne Okeson, senior couple missionaries from Idaho Falls, were in the MTC to start their third mission together — as military affairs specialists in the California San Diego Mission — after previous service in Fiji and the West Indies.

"We didn't have to come here this time, but we chose to come because we love what happens here," said Sister Okeson. "We love that special spirit here and how it sets you up for your mission."

Added her husband: "I walked through the front door and realized again, 'This is a special place.' "

The MTC's regimented daily schedule quickly becomes routine. Up by 6:30 a.m. — although some sister missionaries participate in a special 6 a.m. gym class. Breakfast is followed by an hour each of personal and companionship study and then more studying, planning and learning until lunch.

Class work continues until dinner and again afterward, with next-day planning at 9 p.m., a return to their dorm residences at 9:30 and lights out at 10:30.

Missionaries are afforded a 50-minute exercise/recreation period five days a week in the gymnasium/auditorium or — when it's warmer — on a large nearby field.

Other schedule amendments include worship meetings and firesides on Sundays, Tuesday evening devotionals with an LDS general authority and 75 minutes of weekly service — from cleaning to grounds work, and a weekly preparation day or "P Day."

On P Day, missionaries at the MTC do laundry, write home (30 minutes online access to email parents, with handwritten letters to other family and friends) and attend a temple session. But after dinner, it's back to class, where missionaries generally spend nine to 10 hours daily in lessons, workshops, training exercises and practice in developing language and teaching skills.

Supplementing class instruction are the Training Resource Center (TRC), TE program (Teaching Evaluation) and TALL (Technology Assisted Language Learning) computerized instruction.

The TRC provides some 30 rooms — most representing a typical living room — where missionaries are videotaped in teaching and contacting situations with volunteers role-playing as church investigators and nonmembers. The tape sessions are reviewed and evaluated on language, cultural appropriateness and teaching methodology.

The TE is a progressing teaching program with the same role-playing volunteer, as missionaries build upon augmenting lesson material from one session to the next.

The TALL instruction is for missionaries learning a new language, as they listen to words, phrases and longer readings from a native speaker and record and compare their own pronunciations.

"What really makes or breaks you in learning a language is your personal time," said Elder Russell Homer of Holladay, called to serve in the Russia Rostov Mission.

The Provo MTC continues to grow — both in number of missionaries (the LDS Church forecasts an upcoming demographic upswing in prospective missionaries) and a current 10-year expansion and renovation project.

The current construction focus is a three-story, 40,000-square-foot building to house mail services, clothing assistance, medical and clinical services, a book store, a copy center, a maintenance shop and a receiving center. It will also provide additional office space and residence rooms for 30-plus senior couples.

It is scheduled for completion and dedication in ceremonies later this year that will double as a 50th anniversary commemoration of the old MLI.

Still, the best success stories focus on the missionaries rather than the facilities.

Like Elder Gabriel Ribeiro of Brasilia, Brazil, in the Provo MTC being taught in English — his second language – to learn a third language — Japanese — for his assignment in Japan.

"I write home to my parents about the spiritual feast I have here every day," he said. "I learn so much here. I didn't think I could learn that much — about the gospel, about Japanese. I tell them how grateful I am to be here and to see the church really working."

taylor@desnews.com  

Comments from Our Readers, Awakened Mormons like Alma Who KNOW the Corruption and EVIL of the Church Leaders Who HOLD to the Rod of TRUTH of Lehi's/Nephi's Dream and as Contained in the Original Book of Mormon (which states Polygamy is an "abomination" of God, for instance) or Those Who Have Left the "Great and Spacious Building" of the LDS Church and are telling the TRUTH about the EVIL of the LDS Church! (http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_missionaries_section1.html )

I was the rule nazi in my MTC district in Brazil but also had my moments of flaunting the rules therein. The greatest, and in hindsight most beneficial, was doing baptisms instead of endowment sessions during our weekly temple visits mainly because it took much less time and left us with more free time to goof off.

Though, as I've mentioned, it was trying to be the "perfect" missionary out in the field that led me to a nervous breakdown and choosing to come home early with the rest up to the point of my full awakening being history. (Perfection is of Lucifer through control and Purity of heart is of God through Free Agency that allows no-stress growth)

One thing I'll be teaching people is the modern parallel of the church needing more letter of the law/Law of Moses-type "rules" because, just like the ancient Israelites, the church has lost the spirit and thus can't be guided by it. My favorite excuse to things like "Preach My Gospel" and the CHI being necessary is because the church is "so big." Is not God over all? Can Hit spirit not touch and guide all who are worthy and listen? Instead we have the 3-8 weeks of brainwashing/prison camps called training centers and bishops who simply look up the answer to someone's problem in the CHI- and if it's not in there it will be in the next version. Yet people don't realize that the more pharisiacal we are, the less spiritual we become. The same holds true for the temporal laws of nations. For those who exclaim, "There shoulld be a law against this-" often get their wish and much more. I was once told that there are only three valid federal laws: counterfeiting, kidnapping across state lines, and treason. Nowadays you can't even sneeze without violating some kind of federal law. Land of the free indeed.

That also brings something else to mind regarding the burden of being a bishop in the church today. How many of them see their calling as "work" rather than "service" since they're expected to be infallible leaders who don't lead their wards astray and is likely having to deal with confessions of sins/issues that are not only out of the bishop's jurisdiction, but are pretty much none of his business as a human being. I wonder how often Edward Partridge had to deal with such things as telling married couples what they could or couldn't do behind closed bedroom doors or trying to "draw the line" as to how far a young couple should go when dating.

Last week I saw a demo of the new "youth" site portion of lds.org and ended feeling ill when I realized how the "advice" in the "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet (which the site pretty much just copies) basically translates to surrendering agency to church policy rather than exercising it to learn and grow, even if one makes mistakes. While in a conversation the rhetorical question came up of, "At what point does it start to become brainwashing?" The answer given: "From the first day a child enters Primary." Maybe even sooner as the goings on inside the nursery is not known.

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My parent's are retired, and very, very TBM. They believe and obey everything, absolutely, 100%. If the COB decreed that they should sell everything they own, give 100% of everything over to TSCC, and move into a commune, they would do it. No questions asked. So as they've been retired I've watched the COB:

- Send them on 2 missions outside of their home
- Assign them to 2 missions while staying at their home

On one mission, they put over 50,000 miles on their own, personal, vehicle in one year. They were driving all over the damned country side, giving out free BoMs and Bibles. Couple missionaries are required to support themselves. So while on these missions they essentially had two homes to maintain. The house the mission provided them in one area was not provisioned with dishes and other necessary items, meaning they had to stock and purchase these items themselves. While on this mission my daughter had a major surgery. My mother called me, crying on the phone, because she wanted to be there with my daughter. They were very close, and my mother ALWAYS wants to be involved with her children and grandchildren. I told her that we would be ok, and I called her a couple of times a day. We were doing ok. Sure, I missed her. Mission rules stated that she could not come home to visit, for any reason. My mother was suffering over this. One of my siblings told her to just hop on a plane. What would the COB do about it anyway? There was no way my obedient TBM mother would even consider such a thing. So there she stayed, worrying over my DD and desparately wishing she was at the hospital.

A mission that was local to their home required that they feed an office of volunteers, using their own funds. So everyday they made lunch for a dozen or so people, they did this for a year.

A mission that is ongoing, and hasn't stopped for over a decade is hours and hours of typing genealogy information into a computer. I would estimate that they spend about 2 hours a day on this.

And lastly, I guess somewhere recently an arrogant, self serving, money-grubbing church someone or other declared that parents should not leave their inheritance to their children. It was declared that their children should be able to take care of themselves. And if they couldn't, well too bad! That'll learn 'em! And that the church needed their inheritance more than their children did. hmmmph. On a personal level, yes, I can take care of myself. I have siblings who are struggling, and could use help more than the COB needs more money. But what bugs me the most on this is the absolute utter balls with no shame. They have milked my parents over and over and over their entire lives, and even into their retirement years, and they want to continue doing so even after they are dead! It is appalling! Scam artists do less and spend years in prison!

To me all of these things that the COB encourages, asks and requires of old folks to do is unethical beyond belief. They are a multi-billion dollar organization that is very aware of the influence they have over people's very thoughts and actions. An influence that they constantly cultivate, nurture, and enforce correction when the influence is questioned. I'm no longer prescribe to any religion, or belief system. I do remember from my church going days what was taught as Christ like. And taking advantage of people, especially old folks, ain't it! It is the behavior of a CULT.  

Missions are not to bring in new converts to the Mormon Church, Missions are to de-program the missionary and set them up to be lifetime paying members.

Missions for the Mormon Church serve to take a young man out of his element and deprive him of his family, friends and familiarity - all the while cramming his entire day full of rigorous priorities centered around obedience to the Cult.

Two years of this and you have a human being who will spend a lifetime obeying the Cult - and two of the most important aspects: Will pay a lifetime of $$$, have children and repeat the process over.  

 

My son was preparing for a mission a few years ago, but quickly changed his mind after a good friend returned with horror stories of the MTC. His friend told him that once they got you in there, there was no way out. The friend needed to have dental work done. (the MTC was not satisfied that his personal dentist did NOT require his wisdom teeth to be removed) MTC forced him to have the teeth removed by their dentist at the MTC and would not allow him to leave the MTC to have it done! This kid thought that his life would get better, but it only became worse with all the morg regulations and poor companions. He said it was NOT the best two years of his life. He was miserable and wanted to come home but knew that would mean a dishonorable mission. This young man went on to say what a jerk the mission president was when he became ill. He was so ill that they thought he might be sent home. But his TBM mother made him stay and told him not to come home because of what the ward members might think. There were many more tales of woe from him. I always felt bad for the young men who were so sweet before going into this and then coming out with a whole different personality. I'm sure that alot of young men have had great experiences. But what about the poor guys who were miserable and sacrificed the best two years of their life to the morg? I'm sure there are many of them! Again, it's the Mormon way. Brainwash them to serve a mission or get endowments and just like the majority of us, they have no clue of what they are getting themselves into. HOW VERY SAD!

 

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My son was preparing for a mission a few years ago, but quickly changed his mind after a good friend returned with horror stories of the MTC. His friend told him that once they got you in there, there was no way out. The friend needed to have dental work done. (the MTC was not satisfied that his personal dentist did NOT require his wisdom teeth to be removed) MTC forced him to have the teeth removed by their dentist at the MTC and would not allow him to leave the MTC to have it done! This kid thought that his life would get better, but it only became worse with all the morg regulations and poor companions. He said it was NOT the best two years of his life. He was miserable and wanted to come home but knew that would mean a dishonorable mission. This young man went on to say what a jerk the mission president was when he became ill. He was so ill that they thought he might be sent home. But his TBM mother made him stay and told him not to come home because of what the ward members might think. There were many more tales of woe from him. I always felt bad for the young men who were so sweet before going into this and then coming out with a whole different personality. I'm sure that alot of young men have had great experiences. But what about the poor guys who were miserable and sacrificed the best two years of their life to the morg? I'm sure there are many of them! Again, it's the Mormon way. Brainwash them to serve a mission or get endowments and just like the majority of us, they have no clue of what they are getting themselves into. HOW VERY SAD!

The TRUTH about the MTC of the LDS Church

 The place was a prison. The fence was not yet erected and playing Ultimate was the only relief. Noone talks about the fist fights among elders on the Ultimate field, but I got into a few of them.

We couldn't go to the mall without permission from the Branch president and MTC president. I was called in to the MTC President's office due to my attitude was not on par and he told me about a missionary that snuck out with a girl in his district and had sex on the Y stadium grass. He said my attitude was just like that elder's.

Anyhow, I hated the MTC. It was the most miserable experience of my life. 

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A new "Member Missionary Promise" is being instituted in some wards, requiring members to sign the following contract: "MY PROMISE: I agree to pray morning and night to my Heavenly Father and ask Him to help me find someone who wants to listen to the missionary discussions. I will start praying on __________. I agree to be especially obedient to Heavenly Father's commandments during these 21 days. I will think about and do the things that will help me be more in tune with my Heavenly Father. I will read from the Book of Mormon every day. I will show love to everyone I meet, especially my family. I will think about Nephi. He had no idea how to get the brass plates fro Laban. The Lord directed him and showed him how. The Lord will show me how to find and prepare someone to take the missionary discussions. When the Lord prompts me to refer this person or family to the missionaries, I will heed this prompting. If possible, I will invite the person or family into my home to be taught the discussions and I will be a friend for them as they learn the gospel. Member Missionary Name ______________________________________" Blood oaths, signed contracts, new covenants, tithing settlements - the depths to which this "church" reaches into people's lives is amazing, treating them like mindless, spineless, automotons.

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Its called "the commitment pattern" (also taught at the MTC). Its a high pressure sales technique developed by missionaries in Mexico, popular while I was on a mission in Minnesota.

The pattern revolves around making commitments with the investigator. There is always a commitment at the end of a discussion. Questions are phrased as "will you be baptised" and never "so what do you think about baptism? want to give it a whirl?"

Individuals who have a hard time saying no such as individuals who would be talking with the missionaries in the first place also have a hard time saying no to making commitments. They build a pattern of agreeing to do whatever the elders ask, no matter how silly it sounds such as dedicating ten percent of their income to a church they just are learning about.

Also, baptism is pushed as the goal very hard. Investigators are told that if they do not committ to the missionaries commitments that they will jeapordise their promise to be baptised, and what is worse than letting an authority figure down? Often the main tool of conversion is not the gospel message but a strong link between the missionaries and the "mark", AKA investigator. THe let down that the investigator percieves would occur has many dimensions and why it is so controlling is evidenced through the veracity of the missionaries need for a baptism.

The investigators I baptised in Minneapolis did so because they were lonely, in need of support or in some cases were so wrapped up in not letting me down that they didnt care wat the hell I asked them to do...they were going to be baptised and if they werent they thought I would be disappointed.

That is emotional control. No hypnosis, just guilt. 

******** Reading other pro-LDS message boards, and recalling my forty plus years as a True Believing Mormon, it became clear to me that the most important strategies employed by the church are Ignorance and Misinformation. This two-pronged approach first uses the principle of IGNORANCE to hide from uninformed, inquiring minds anything that might be unpleasant about the church. It keeps people ignorant of facts that might make them expect a reasonable explanation. An example of this is sanitizing the problem of polygamy from the church museums. My recent visits to the Beehive House, Mormon History Museum and Temple Square Visitor Centers are glaring examples of this practice. No unsolicited mention of polygamy exists in any of these locations. The second principle in this scheme uses MISINFORMATION when someone, despite the obvious attempts of the Church's PR department to rewrite history by excluding polygamy, raises polygamy in the museums and visitor centers. They are immediately told how only a very small percentage of Mormons practiced it, without explaining why that is relevant; they indicate that it was to care for the overabundance of women, without providing proof that there was, in actual fact, the alleged overabundance; they explain that "god made us do it" when challenged to explain the connection polygamy had with a religious organization; and they distance themselves from the current practice of polygamy by declaring that it is not condoned by the church, anyone practicing it is excommunicated, and by denying that the church practiced it privately long after it had declared publicly that it was no longer practicing it. By perpetuating urban legends about these practices they use MISINFORMATION to inoculate seekers from the truth. What helps these strategies is the obvious ignorance of the 20-something missionaries who are being manipulated by the older shepherds. In the Beehive House there was an array of six or eight sister missionaries being watched over by a very business-like father-figure. I was absolutely certain that if I had started questioning the polygamy in the foyer within earshot of him that he would have accompanied us on the tour. He looked like he'd been pitted against anti-mormons making their way through this holy mecca before and was very keen to the clues that would get him engaged to protect these young women from ...... QUESTIONS. When I got them away from him, though, their testimonies of the hidden mysteries of the Church were weak. They confessed that THEY would not like to practice polygamy and share a husband. "REALLY?" I asked. "But isn't this a commandment?" "Not anymore."

 

 

Reading other pro-LDS message boards, and recalling my forty plus years as a True Believing Mormon, it became clear to me that the most important strategies employed by the church are Ignorance and Misinformation. This two-pronged approach first uses the principle of IGNORANCE to hide from uninformed, inquiring minds anything that might be unpleasant about the church. It keeps people ignorant of facts that might make them expect a reasonable explanation. An example of this is sanitizing the problem of polygamy from the church museums. My recent visits to the Beehive House, Mormon History Museum and Temple Square Visitor Centers are glaring examples of this practice. No unsolicited mention of polygamy exists in any of these locations. The second principle in this scheme uses MISINFORMATION when someone, despite the obvious attempts of the Church's PR department to rewrite history by excluding polygamy, raises polygamy in the museums and visitor centers. They are immediately told how only a very small percentage of Mormons practiced it, without explaining why that is relevant; they indicate that it was to care for the overabundance of women, without providing proof that there was, in actual fact, the alleged overabundance; they explain that "god made us do it" when challenged to explain the connection polygamy had with a religious organization; and they distance themselves from the current practice of polygamy by declaring that it is not condoned by the church, anyone practicing it is excommunicated, and by denying that the church practiced it privately long after it had declared publicly that it was no longer practicing it. By perpetuating urban legends about these practices they use MISINFORMATION to inoculate seekers from the truth. What helps these strategies is the obvious ignorance of the 20-something missionaries who are being manipulated by the older shepherds. In the Beehive House there was an array of six or eight sister missionaries being watched over by a very business-like father-figure. I was absolutely certain that if I had started questioning the polygamy in the foyer within earshot of him that he would have accompanied us on the tour. He looked like he'd been pitted against anti-mormons making their way through this holy mecca before and was very keen to the clues that would get him engaged to protect these young women from ...... QUESTIONS. When I got them away from him, though, their testimonies of the hidden mysteries of the Church were weak. They confessed that THEY would not like to practice polygamy and share a husband. "REALLY?" I asked. "But isn't this a commandment?" "Not anymore."