While gathering info for a new article earlier this week, I came across an interesting story in Mormondom.
In 2009, the Deseret News published an article ‘20 little-known facts about the Mormon Angel Moroni statue’. They showed a different Moroni statue with each fact they shared, and one in particular caught my immediate attention.
Did You Know?
Sitting atop the Los Angeles, California temple is a Moroni statue unlike any other (#9 of
20). This Moroni, standing just over 15’ tall, is dressed in Mayan regalia, complete with the sandals, headband, robe, and a set of ‘gold plates’. Additionally, his robe is covered with the typical Mayan geometric patterns.
A pro-Mormon site said this Moroni’s garb is designed from the inspiration of the commissioned sculptor who was heavily influenced by the man he studied under whose specialty was in Mesoamerican cultures.
We’re wondering…
Which of God’s angels wears robes in the fashion of a localized pagan culture?
If angels are eternal, why did this Moroni fellow dress in the fashion of the day from whence he supposedly sprang? Is heaven filled with Mayan designs?
What do the Mayan geometric patterns have to do with God, or any temple clothing He commissioned for the Israelites?
Not to be outdone, there’s yet another angel we’d be remiss to not shine a light upon. In the November 2009 issue of the New Era Magazine, there’s an article about the many versions of Moroni statues, one of which is part of the Hill Cumorah Monument.
This Moroni sits on a 365 ton marble obelisk. (That’s another story altogether.) His right arm is bent ‘to the square’ indicating the Masonic oath of loyalty to the false god Jahbulon. The other arm is fashioned to look as if he’s holding a set of gold plates…sigh… For images, see ‘Chad’s Random Musings’. This is the same oath Mormons take in the temple, at their baptisms, and when they vote ‘yes’ for induction of new General Authorities.
If these statues don’t fit the graven image warning God gave us, nothing does! See Exodus 20:4-6.
Two specific scenes from the Bible come to mind when I think about Moroni. The first is when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai to find his brother Aaron leading the Israelites in a frenzied orgy of worshiping the golden calf Exodus 32:1-35, and Paul’s episode of the trouble he faced in Ephesus with the silversmith Demitrius who was making false idol gods in Acts 19:19-29.
Ask your Mormon friends/loved ones what their thoughts are about Moroni and God’s endless warnings not to have graven images in your life!
Reblogged this on The Vine Vigil and commented:
What horrible things are accepted as being “Christian!”
Amen! More disturbing on top of that is the amount of money they dump into such harlotry. How many homeless people could they have fed?
I think it would only be fair to point out that the LDS in no way worship that statue, just like we in no way worship the cross that adorns all our church buildings.
Thank you James Banta. We do not worship that statue we only honor the resurrected being known as Moroni who was the son of Mormon who compiled the multiple books written by the men who chose to be Gods Prophets who who preached the word of god to the ancient Nephites and Lamenites Jaredites and Zarahemlaites. Moroni died as the last righteous man in that period and was then chosen out of Gods Angels to bring forth the true and everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ the fore ordained Joseph Smith in his youth. (Our lives on this earth are all fore ordained. Research the Plan Of Salvation) We honor this man for his perilous days spent in his human life protecting and finishing the Book of Mormon and hiding it to come forth in the latter days, this dispensation. He is honored, not worshipped, through the placement of thes statues atop our Holy Temples as a symbol of the true and everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ because he revealed it to our dispensation. Jesus Christ is who we worship and follow as the head of our church and redeemer of the world. The Book of Mormon is the truest and complete book of the Gospel of our Lord. It is sad how easily people are swayed by a few words online. Read the scriptures and pray about them and be ready to except the answers that come through the warmth of the Holy Ghost. I love you all as the Savior does and hope you will open your hearts to the truth and come unto Christ through His scriptures and acts of faith, for only in him is the strength to overcome the world and rest in paradise.