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The whole section under my dispute tag is not only strange to me, but not reflective of LDS/Mormonism belief of secret combinations.
It is uncited, and the article needs heavy cleanup. This is really bad. -Visorstuff 16:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Another comment, from a Mormon living in Utah .....
"I agree, this article is too much speculation. A shorter document that's less doomsday and more scripture and quotes from modern and ancient Apostles and Prophets would be more appropriate."—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.187.0.164 (talk • contribs) 02:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
fwiw, i find this fairly bland and defensible and supportable with references to the BofM. 2007/01/06.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.203.146.168 (talk • contribs) 21:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I removed the following statement from the article:
"In addition, LDS Apostle Ezra Taft Benson has described socialism, evolution, rationalism, and humanism as secret combinations (Conference Report, April 5, 1975)."
I checked the original source, and no where in the speech cited does Benson equate these with secret combinations. All he says about these is: "Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the book [of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, etc."
Saying something contains "falsehoods" is a far cry from calling it a secret combination. –SESmith 23:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
This page is going to have to be moved to make room for a disambiguation page. What would an appropriate name for the new page be? The other page will be Secret Combination (song). It is a song by Kalomoira. Grk1011 (talk) 20:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Considering the Church Committee (and Marks/Marchetti before, for that matter) found that quite a few Mormons in the intelligence community protested/resisted various activities during the Cold War they were otherwise being compelled to participate in, have Mormon leaders *ever* stated anything about the history or threat of secret combinations within their own government that has nothing to do with communism, aside from these occasionally using the 'defense against communism' as a justification & facade for? Many of these secret activities over the years that are highly embarassing were specifically for the personal gain of the operators, their family, friends, or those who would later employ them... often large companies seeking to gain greater wealth by utilizing covert actions, tax payer money, and criminal conduct to oppress, imprison, or murder people. Some were even downright lunatic cults engaged in gunrunning and murder in Latin America for Christian fundamentalist (even new-age & occultist-laced) ideologies, with home bases within the USA and quasi-legit covers. Seems like a convenient, jingoistic selective myopia Mormon general authorities are exhibiting talking exclusively about communists and the mob. If their motivations were of divine origin, one would think The Almighty would have the prescience to realize communism was a dead-end that would implode on itself out of its own mismanagement and inefficiency. Any quotes of them ever broadening their targets other than in the most generic sense? -Reticuli 71.65.115.103 (talk) 20:57, 1 July 2012 (UTC)