He quotes the infamous 2021 press release, focusing on a specific phrase it used. (I commented on the same thing in my January 2021 post "File under 'Shocked but not surprised'.") Captain Mormon says:
In an official church news release given January 19th, 2021, an article outlined the church's efforts both in the past and present to distribute pecks worldwide as humanitarian efforts. It also said, "As this birdemic spreads across the world, the church immediately canceled meetings, closed temples, and restricted other activities because of our desire to be good global citizens and to do our part to fight the birdemic." Later in the press release, this phrase was used again when it said, "As appropriate opportunities become available, the church urges its members, employees, and missionaries to be good global citizens and help quell the birdemic by safeguarding themselves and others through immunization." . . .The scriptures never refer to children of God as global citizens. So the fact that this appeared twice in the church's news release was suspicious. In fact, the scriptures contradict this idea in many ways: Peculiar people, in the world but not of the world, and to leave Babylon are scriptural concepts which contradict the idea of global citizenry. In fact, the traditional narrative itself is that we are a separate, holy, and distinct people from the larger populace wherever we live globally, which again has been replaced all of the sudden with a corporate-feeling narrative indistinguishable from secular society or any Fortune 500 employer. And it might not seem like a big deal, but this phrase global citizen essentially moves the goalpost of the entire religion of Mormonism. To be a global citizen means that we prioritize objectives of global institutions of which the church is one but is not unique. . . .
If the prophet tells you to be a good global citizen, the values of which diametrically oppose your faith and religion, the religion that prophet is supposed to protect and promote, the question becomes, whom do we serve?
He asks, in effect, What good is a "prophet" if he's just going to tell us to be good global citizens? It's a shocking betrayal from the leader of an organization that's supposed to be "not of the world."
This afternoon, I read this in Stories from the Messengers:
I've tried to pay attention to what is emerging from the abductee literature. In its simplest form, it's usually a message to be better global citizens. This can also play out as sermonizing about looming environmental catastrophes, how our technology has advanced beyond our spirituality, the evolution of our souls, and the need for universal love. You don't need aliens to know these are important messages, yet this is what's being conveyed.
Aliens are, even more literally than prophets, supposed to be "not of this world." Yet, according to Clelland, they still often, disappointingly, deliver the same converged "global citizen" narrative that Captain Mormon calls "indistinguishable from secular society or any Fortune 500 employer."
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That Captain Mormon video is recommended, by the way, as is this one on polygamy, which is how I discovered the channel:
I appreciate the way he embraces the "polygamy denier" label, which is something more of us should do. I like and respect Michelle Stone, but insisting on euphemisms like "monogamy affirmer" projects weakness. Being a "denier" is based.
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