Mormons at the CIA?

A CIA recruiter told the Salt Lake Tribune that returned missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who served in South America are valued assets in the CIA because of several characteristics: Foreign language skills, abstinence from drugs and alcohol, and their ability to integrate with the local customs and a respect for authority.

The church’s private university, Brigham Young University or BYU is also a focal point for recruitment. A professor of Foreign Studies said, “With a degree from BYU, the CIA and FBI hire almost all who apply.” The unnamed CIA recruiter said, “The number of Mormons who work for the CIA and FBI is disproportionate compared to other private and government agencies.”

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LDS writers

There more LDS fiction writer than in any other religion?

Orson Scott Card, Award wining Science Fiction writer said, "Mormons are theologically not so far removed from science fiction. We literally believe that God has created sentient beings on other worlds, that there really is faster-than-light travel and that God can go hither and yon. In many cases, we are writing about a universe we have already thought about from childhood on." (Publishers Weekly, Other Worlds, Suffused With Religion, 4/16/01)

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Popular Television

The original television series Battlestar Galactica, was extrapolated from Mormon doctrine.

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Popular Books

Why was the Da Vinci Code so popular?

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Influence and Growth of Mormon Church
“A Yale Professor, Harold Bloom and a reporter for the New Yorker made an astute observation. ‘There will come a time with Mormons are so numerous and so wealthy that governing our democracy will become impossible without Mormon cooperation.’ Even now this is becoming a reality, with only 1.8 of the US population being Mormon.

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Mormons in Government

There is already a disproportionate amount of Mormons representation in the Government. Five out of the one hundred United States Senators are LDS.”

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Mormon Doctrine:

The reckoning of God's time, angel's time, prophet's time, and man's time, is according to the planet on which they reside. (Doctrine and Covenants, 130:4.)

And were it possible that man could number the partials of the earth, yea, millions of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy creations. (Pearl of Great Price: Moses 7:30)

This would seem to suggest that they have fundamental acceptance that other people reside on other planets. More…

There are many worlds that have passed away.... And there are many that now stand ... " (Pearl of Great Price: Moses 1:35)

The worlds are and were created and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God (Doctrine and Covenants, 76:24).

Worlds without number have I created. (Pearl of Great Price: Moses 1:33)

To follow on that thought a few words from their leadership.

"We are not the only people that the Lord has created. We have brothers and sisters on other earths. They look like us because they, too, are the children of God and were created in his image.” (Doctrines of Salvation: 1:62).

"We do not know how many inhabited worlds there are, or where they are. But certainly we are not alone." (A Wonderful Flood of Light p.25, Neal A. Maxwell.)

People of influence: