I'll be taking this course starting this week. There are still spots left if you're interested in writing about religious trauma.
https://www.narrativelyacademy.com/p/writing-about-religious-trauma
I'll be taking this course starting this week. There are still spots left if you're interested in writing about religious trauma.
https://www.narrativelyacademy.com/p/writing-about-religious-trauma
Also, since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints insists, I've taken to painstakingly spelling out their full name when it's connected to their criminal activities.
You can change what you call it but the stink still follows. By their fruits and all that. Jesus can come down and take issue with them if he wants.
Oh yeah, these chumps have nothing on the wealth controlled by President Oaks, crime boss of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It's popular to call The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a corporation, but I think that's completely wrong.
I think it's much closer to a crime syndicate:
1. Controls regional government, police, and courts. Outsized influence in national legislature, bureaucracy, law enforcement, and executive branch.
2. Sets up various fronts for committing crimes and laundering money.
3. Child sex rings that have run undetected for over a century.
4. A finger in dozens of exploitative businesses that aren't quite legal or wouldn't be legal if they didn't control the state and national legislature. A finger in dozens more "legit" and very successful, influential businesses.
5. Openly ran several kidnapping rings in the US in the mid-20th century until today.
6. "Family" style secrecy pacts, loyalty tests, and ritualistic inductions.
7. Literal protection racket that scares victims into paying billions of dollars with nothing in return.
8. Largest bankroll of any "religion" in the US.
What am I forgetting?
It's fair to say at this point that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest organized crime syndicate that has ever existed in the United States.
I did not expect the Lego heist to have a Mormon element.
But there it is.
It's THE element.