Posted on 04/26/2021 6:37:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A $100-billion cult rooted in white supremacy and an experimental vaccine manufacturer with financial links to pro-abortionist Bill Gates are among the controversial sponsors of the Vatican's forthcoming summit on global health.
Mormon leaders give Francis a statue of the Mormon Jesus
Mormon elder William King Jackson and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel will address the Pontifical Council for Culture's conference on "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul" from May 6–8. The conference will also host abortion advocate Chelsea Clinton and New Age guru Deepak Chopra.
The Vatican invitation to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints follows Pope Francis' unprecedented 33-minute meeting with Mormon president Russell M. Nelson in 2019 when the cult dedicated its new temple in Rome, not far from the Vatican.
Receiving Moderna sponsorship and hosting Bancel is also raising questions about Francis' conflict of interest in pushing the jab — especially after some vaccine oligarchs (including Bancel and Moderna's co-founder Noubar Afeyan) became billionaires profiting from the COVID-19 crisis.
The health summit has already triggered a firestorm of criticism for parading a gallery of the mostly Western, elite, globalist, super-rich speakers in the name of "global health." The Vatican is facing mounting calls to cancel the conference.
"It causes some cognitive dissonance to see Pope Francis rubbing elbows with billionaire oligarchs, population controllers and social engineers, given all his prattle about the poor," academic Dr. John Zmirak told Church Militant. "But, in fact, we're just glimpsing the other side of the papal coin."
"If globalist utopians are going to run the world, they can't face billions of free citizens with sovereign votes and disposable income," Zmirak remarked, as conference organizer Robin Smith earlier boasted that the Vatican gabfest was "like Davos, but for health care."
It causes some cognitive dissonance to see Pope Francis rubbing elbows with billionaire oligarchs, population controllers, and social engineers, given all his prattle about the poor.GabTweet
"No, you need billions of beaten-down, reeducated, disarmed proletarians living from paycheck to paycheck. People so terrified by an ordinary virus that they'll toss away their liberties with both hands, gladly, in return for the promise of 'safety,'" Zmirak said.
Zmirak's reference to the pontiff's "cognitive dissonance" also covers the contradictions between Mormon and Christian doctrine and more recent controversies over the cult's adherence to religious texts preaching white supremacy.
Racism in Mormonism: An Invitation to Repent
In a 2001 statement, the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog rejected the validity of baptism conferred in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, changing "the past practice of not questioning the validity of such baptism."
Even though "non-Catholics can validly administer baptism," the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) rejected Mormon baptism because, according to Mormons, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are "three gods who form one divinity."
The differences are so great that one cannot even consider that this doctrine is a heresy which emerged out of a false understanding of the Christian doctrine.GabTweet
In Mormon doctrine, God the Father has a wife, the Heavenly Mother, and they procreate sons — of whom the firstborn is Jesus Christ, equal to all men, who acquired his divinity in a pre-mortal existence. Even the Holy Spirit, according to Mormons, is the son of heavenly parents. Four gods are directly responsible for the universe, the CDF explained.
"The differences are so great that one cannot even consider that this doctrine is a heresy which emerged out of a false understanding of the Christian doctrine," the CDF declared.
The recently built Mormon temple in Rome
Mormonism, which renounced polygamy in practice but not in doctrine, has yet to explicitly reject doctrinal racism in its religious texts, even though the Mormon hierarchy issued a statement in February 2012 rejecting all racism during Mormon Mitt Romney's campaign for the U.S. presidency.
"Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse," the statement said, after a 1978 "revelation" to Mormon president Spencer W. Kimball removed restrictions on ordaining black people to the priesthood.
But scholars have observed that "these statements appear more as responses to crises than as significant changes in practice" and coincide with the Mormon cult's extension of its proselytism to Africa.
The Book of Mormon explicitly states that God cursed the Lamanites with a dark skin for their wickedness: "Wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, therefore the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." The Book of Abraham also contains similarly racist texts.
"A clear theological challenge for the LDS Church is that a genuine repudiation of racism would raise fundamental questions about the historical validity of scriptural texts, both in their means of production and message," scholars maintain.
A 2020 whistleblower exposé with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that the cult's investment fund, Ensign Peak Advisors, had stockpiled $100 billion. Notably, there are pending allegations of improper use of some of the funds — allegations denied by Mormon officials.
A clear theological challenge for the LDS Church is that a genuine repudiation of racism would raise fundamental questions about the historical validity of scriptural texts.GabTweet
Attention has been drawn to the Mormon support for the COVID-19 vaccine, with Vaticanist Edward Pentin exposing the Vatican's health conference as a vaccine-advocacy vehicle to combat COVID-19 "vaccine hesitancy" and "provide a platform for promoting vaccines" produced by "Big Pharma."
In January 2021, eight senior Mormon leaders (including president Russell M. Nelson) and most of their wives received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Salt Lake City, Utah, issuing a statement in support of the experimental shot.
Controversial Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel
Last month, the Mormon cult updated its handbook, encouraging members to "safeguard themselves, their children and their communities through vaccination."
The Vatican's invitation to vaccine oligarch Stéphane Bancel is also coming under the spotlight after revelations that Moderna Therapeutics received an initial $20 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2016, before the COVID crisis — with a total commitment of $100 million in funding toward mRNA-based treatments.
Bancel sold nearly $2 million of his stock ahead of Moderna's emergency-use vaccine filing, according to filings registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is now worth $3 billion.
The vaccine oligarch's "stock sale was carried out through a routine Rule 10b5-1, a predetermined trading plan that allows company executives to sell shares at set times without facing insider trading accusations," a Business Insider investigation revealed.
If globalist utopians are going to run the world, they can't face billions of free citizens with sovereign votes and disposable income.GabTweet
According to the report, "Through the safe-harbor 10b5-1 trading plan, Bancel and other insiders have been offloading their shares throughout the pandemic."
In March 2020, Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan, whom Forbes estimates to have a net worth of $2.3 billion, sold more than $1.5 billion in shares, cashing in on the Wuhan virus crisis.
Moderna Therapeutics, valued at over $5 billion, is estimated to be the United States' most valuable private biotech company, with a number of top executives raking in billions in sales of Moderna shares.
Meanwhile, earlier in April, the Mormons, who are well-known for their aggressive door-to-door proselytism, announced the construction of 20 more temples around the world — including in traditionally Catholic countries like Belgium, Austria, Brazil, Columbia and Mexico.
Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned proselytism as "solemn nonsense" and "the strongest poison against the ecumenical path."
Church Militant contacted the Pontifical Council for Culture a second time asking why the Vatican was inviting speakers and accepting sponsorship from bodies who were likely to be a source of scandal. We received no response on both occasions.
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The Rome Mormon temple looks huge. Are there that many Mormons there that they need something that big, or is it more for show?
Does the pope get a temple recommend card?
I hadn’t heard about a temple built in Rome. Very interesting!
Mormons- Muslims with a haircut.
No worries. I’m sure not a few cardinals are pissed for having voted for Bergoglio in 2013.
Christus (also known as Christus Consolator) is a 19th-century Carrara marble statue of the resurrected Jesus by Bertel Thorvaldsen. It is located in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark’s Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen
Many different topics in this article. It would be complete without the Mormon-bashing.
Would you also complain about muslim "bashing"?
mitt romney... AND them voting for him... is all I need to know about mormans.
Space alien Jesus and Space alien Lucifer are bros.
You gotta remember that Rome has some of the most impressive Religious buildings in the world, with whole art styles developed in part there.
If it isn’t big or eye catching, no one would give it a second glance.
Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come." This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?" But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins." "Who are you?" they asked. "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning," Jesus replied.
That may mean that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are unsaved, depending on the interpretation of "believe that I am he".
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