Mormon Church Increases Pressure To Get Vaccinated. Congregations Divided

Just a few weeks ago The WinePress reported that the Church of Latter Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, strongly urged vaccinations and masking protocols.

The Mormon Church Urges Vaccination And Mandates Masks

But reports indicate the congregations are divided amongst themselves, disobeying guidance from their leadership and elders.

The Associated Press begins their report noting the story of one Mormon, Monique Allen, who has participated in the services virtually, who has trained her daughter to think that wearing a mask is “Christ-like.” But now Allen fears if her child has become an outcast. Though the Latter Day Saints eldership have urged vaccinations and masks, Allen believes this is not enough, and many of her fellow congregants ‘have succumb to vaccine-misinformation.’

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Of course Christ would wear a mask, of course he would get vaccinated because he’s a loving person. And that’s the only way you can take care of people these days is doing these simple things.

What Allen would tell her daughter

Allen attends a Mormon church in Wisconsin, and many members there do not wish to comply with warnings from their elders. In general, many Mormons are frustrated that they are not allowed express their faith without having to mask up and take a vaccine.

Citing a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and Interfaith Youth Core, revealed that roughly 65% of Mormons that responded are acceptant of a Covid-19 vaccine, meaning they have gotten at least one shot or plan to. 15% are on the fence and another 19% refuse.

Patrick Mason, associate professor of religion at Utah State University, says that more of the political conservative-leaning Mormons are the ones who have been more hesitant, and is indicative of a much broader pattern in America.

The common perception of Mormons and Mormonism is that when church leaders speak, church members listen and do what they’re told. This has revealed sometimes how conditional that loyalty can be.

Church President Russell M. Nelson is continually urging vaccination after he got his in January. Brigham Young University (BYU) requires students to report their vaccine status, but are not yet mandated to take it. Masks are required however. Their American missionaries must be fully vaccinated to travel. Masks at services are left up to the decisions of the elders to encourage and reinforce state and federal guidelines.

‘Some Latter-day Saints have accused those who promote anti-vaccine rhetoric of apostasy, a term that is associated with wickedness and describes when individuals turn away from church principles,’ according to the AP report.

Kristen Chevrier, co-founder of a freedom-based health group in Utah, says that the Mormon church has no business enforcing personal health policies, and cites church history from her religion as to why this should be a personal choice between the person and God.

How can we say that there’s a blanket statement that applies to everyone regardless of their personal revelation.

Other Mormons are still frustrated that more are not obeying the eldership.

You can find something on the internet to support any position you want to take. Why would you choose the side that doesn’t include your faith leader?

Marie Johnson

One temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, urges that all congregants wear masks and get vaccinated, and those vulnerable should participate virtually.

Our faith leaders have been so consistent from the very beginning. This is a hoax, it doesn’t matter, it’s not affecting us,’ when millions of people have died, it’s heartbreaking.

Søren Simonsen

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. [2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. [3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. [18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. [19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

2 Peter 2:1-3. 18-19

If you are a Mormon reading this, you are not saved and are on your way to hell. Your antichrist “church” preaches a false gospel, a false Jesus, and whole of host of false doctrine and traditions.

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

Revelation 2:15

A Nicolaitan is someone that subjugates its people, its flock: you have to obey their words and decrees, and what they say trumps the scriptures or previous traditions they made up. And Jesus HATES that. And these little pretentious dorks behind the pulpit are getting angry because their preeminence is being questioned and denied.

But the bottom line is if you are a Mormon you need to be born again. Stop trusting in your vain religion (that has revealed whom they REALLY serve); stop trusting in your good deeds, your baptisms, your false depiction of Jesus Christ, your eternal progression, and yourself. Turn, repent, to the true Jesus Christ, the one and only Lord God Almighty, trusting in the gospel and nothing else: the death, burial, and resurrection; and calling upon his name to save you. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 10:1-13; Acts 20:21).

But with all that being said, when the bodies really start to hit the floor this fall and winter, then I can pretty much guarantee you that will start excommunicating members and revoking their “salvation card.” Moreover, these pagan temples of theirs will be converted into FEMA camps, and the pastors will be preaching the gospel of getting jabbed. And I am referring to all these denominations, by the way.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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