It gets worse: An even larger number are touting Trump as the messiah. Unfortunately, Dr. Peterson has sworn an oath to not talk about this in order to help bind the Interpreter Foundation to donation monies. Right-wing threats to the Church which include Trump delusions must be addressed by someone, but who? Need to find someone who can speak without being beholden to Trump-loving donors (who have already left the building and who held greater loyalty to the deceptiveness of Trump than the Interpreter).I have in mind, rather, a small handful of (I’m guessing) once stalwart and (hyper?)orthodox Latter-day Saints that I’ve seen and heard — to choose just one example — compare the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve to the Gadianton Robbers.
The shame about that non-political oath is that Dr. Peterson would be an ideal person to talk distraught Church members off that Trump-messiah ledge.
Good thing Dr. Peterson does not have owners of the Burlington Coat Factory on his donor's list! There is a wonderful irony in that story, although anti-maskers might not get it.Finally, a thought about anti-pandemic mask-wearing that somebody shared with me quite a while back:
I see people wearing winter coats and hats. What a bunch of sheep! LOL! I did my own research and found out that only 1500 people die from hypothermia in the US per year. That’s only 0.0005% of the population. They live in fear of something that 99.9995% of people won’t die from. And it gets better: A lot of the people who died from hypothermia were wearing coats and hats, and they still died! Coats don’t work!
Of course, if the Church had never allowed itself to be yoked to right-wing politics, this would not be a problem.