Yeah, we saw the snake.

My last post had me thinking about Richard Dutcher, and I ended up reading part of a post about him on By Common Consent. While I was there, this link in the sidebar caught my eye:

The post is called "Look. At. The. Damn. Snake," and it begins with a quotation from the infamous 2021 First Presidency letter in which those who imagine themselves the heirs of Joseph Smith endorsed the "safe and effective" you-know-what and urged everyone to "follow the wise and thoughtful recommendations of medical experts and government leaders." My first impression, just from what I could see in the sidebar, was that it was urging church members to remember this disgraceful episode and learn from it. Remember that one time your leaders turned out to be snakes? Don't try to sweep it under the rug and forget it ever happened. Look at the damn snake and understand the ramifications.

Then I realized that this was actually a post written in 2021, not a retrospective, and when I clicked through I found that it was comparing the birdemic pecks to the miraculous brazen serpent of Moses and mocking sane people as "'anti-brassers' or 'brazen-serpent hesitant.'" It even uses this illustration -- unironically, if you can believe it.

So I'm repurposing that old post for what I mistakenly thought was its intended purpose. Click right now, read what this jackass wrote in 2021, and read all the comments. Lest we forget. To appropriate a line from Don McLean, "Do you recall what was revealed" in those days?