KO quotes TS re: use of Mormonism to spread the American empire.

Date
Jan 2008
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
Työkansan Sanomat
LDS
Hearsay
Reprint
Translation
Secondary
Reference

“Amerikka lähettää Suomeen mormooneja” [America Sends Mormons to Finland], Työkansan Sanomat [Working People’s Gazette], March

13, 1948, 5, translated in Kim B. Östman, "Mormon Espionage Scare in Finland, 1982-1984" Journal of Mormon History (Winter 2008): 88

Scribe/Publisher
Työkansan Sanomat, Journal of Mormon History
People
Työkansan Sanomat, Kim Östman
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Imperialistic countries spread out their dominion also under the disguise of religious missionary work. At first usually come the missionaries, then the diplomats and the merchants, and after them the police and the military forces. . . . The United States has begun conquest work under the disguise of religion even in Finland. . . . It is a far-reaching business. . . . The people of Finland do not need a religious revival arranged by strangers. Even less do we need the kind of revival where religiosity clothes itself in the kaftan of Mormonism, and of which it can never be known whether it serves more the grubby spirits of the Mormonites or the foreign capital with which this activity is upheld.

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