"I can't believe Mike Lee is now comparing Trump to a righteous leader from the Book of Mormon."

[Nevilledog]

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Evan McMullin 🇺🇸
@EvanMcMullin
I can't believe Mike Lee is now comparing Trump to a righteous leader from the Book of Mormon. What a disgrace. Mike knows that Trump is a threat to the republic, but chooses to enable him anyway because doing so serves his personal ambitions in Washington. Utahns deserve better.

Heidi Hatch
@tvheidihatch
Senator Mike Lee campaigning in Arizona, hard selling Trump to religious groups from Evangelical to Mormons. Comparing Trump to Captain Moroni from the Book Of Mormon. Saying @potus does not seek the praise of the world.
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[madaboutharry]

1. That sounds like blasphemy to me.

Cults are a dangerous drug.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. may that magic underwear burst into flames....

what we are hearing and seeing this last week stretches imagination further than I thought possible. The right wing is truly sick.

[dweller]

3. I bet it sounds better

in the original German ..


✌🏻

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I didn't know there was a Captain Moroni

in the Book of Mormon. I know about the angel Moroni, but the captain?

[Nevilledog]

6. He got a promotion.

[FreeState]

14. He was a military leader

According to the Book of Mormon, Captain Moroni was an important military commander and patriot who lived during the first century BC. He is first mentioned in the Book of Alma as "the chief captain over the Nephites." (The Nephites were the white Indians - the brown ones were evil and not righteous so their skins was darkened - called Laminates) .

[LuvNewcastle]

18. I need to read all of the Book of Mormon.

I’ve tried reading it before, but it’s difficult to pay attention to. It comes off like a half-literate person decided to write a novel with an Elizabethan English vocabulary in order to make it sound like the KJV of the Bible. I need to read it so I’ll have that reference knowledge, just like I need to read the Koran for the same reason. One of these days. Thanks for the reply.

[Raster]

20. No need to read the book of mormon, unless you like a marginal fictional read...

...NOTHING, repeat NOTHING in the book of moron* can be authenticated or verified. NOTHING. Not one bit of the book of moron* holds up to scrutiny.

No evidence archaeological.
Nothing anthropological.
Nothing biological.
Nothing historical.
Nothing linguistical.
Nothing genetical.
Nothing.

Full disclosure: born and raised LDS, and am now fully recovered.

[My Pet Orangutan]

16. I can see the resemblance immediately

Captain Moroni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moroni

Captain Moron

[Archae]

5. Considering the founder of Mormonism was a con man...

And his successor as leader of the Mormons was a murderous bastard, I'm not surprised.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Young ran the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

As well as his Militia being part of the Circleville Massacre . Book of Mormon,geesh,a stolen Manuscript from a Printer in Pennsylvania .

Mike Lee,now there is a messed up POS.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Captain Moroni. Is that another Trump alias?

Oh sorry. It's Captain Moron.

[njhoneybadger]

8. Mike Lee's granddaddy, murderer John D. Lee would approve.

John Doyle Lee was an American pioneer and prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah. Lee was later convicted as a mass murderer for his complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre, sentenced to death and was executed in 1877.
Lee had 19 wives and 56 children, and his descendants are now numerous. Former Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is a direct descendant of John Lee, as are his sons SENATOR MIKE LEE of Utah and Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Lee. Another descendant, Gordon H. Smith, was a U.S. Senator from Oregon.
Died: March 23, 1877, Mountain Meadow, Utah
Born: September 6, 1812, Kaskaskia, Illinois
Wikipedia

[Wellstone ruled]

10. The Lee family has

a major foot print in Washington County Utah as well as Clark County Nevada. Their annual Family Reunion draws upwards of a thousand Family members each year.

[Solly Mack]

11. I can see Trump as Captain Moron.

Oh, he said Captain Moroni.

Sure that's not Captain Moron I?

[Blue Owl]

12. Shoulda bought stock in Disposable Magic Diapers

n/t

[msongs]

13. why not, the utah crowds love trumps family values nt

[JI7]

15. This is just White Supremacy hiding behind Religion

[MurrayDelph]

17. The only character Trump is like in Book of Mormon

is Arnold Cunningham,a hapless moron who keeps making up shit because studying is too much work.

Hasa Diga Donald Trump

[Mariana]

19. Trump's Evangelical supporters have likened him to various Bible heroes since 2015.

Usually it's King David, but there have been others too. Mike Lee is pretty late to that party.

In 2008 they did the same thing with Sarah Palin.

[theaocp]

21. I can't believe mike lee hasn't been caught doing his favorite:

Manually masturbating oxen for artificial insemination. Weird.

[Buckeyeblue]

22. I'm surprised that he would speak so openly about the book of Mormon

LDS politicans typically keep their cult a tight lipped secret.