Arnold Friberg, Lehi and His People Arrive in the Promised Land, 1952-1955.
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My views on faith and spirituality have matured as I have gotten older. But when I was a teenager, heavy metal was my life and my religion. Unfortunately, this led to conflicts with my father as he returned to the Mormon Church. Despite rebelling against my father and the Mormon Church, I gained some important insights on human nature, self-reliance, and perseverance. These lessons can help the Dissident Right build communities across religious lines while still maintaining our personal views and beliefs.
My father came from a broken home in Idaho. Thankfully, the Mormon Church provided food, clothes, and support through church activities and youth groups. In many ways, the Mormon Church treated my dad better than his own family did. For various reasons, my dad stopped attending the Mormon Church as an adult. He eventually found a career as a police officer and married my mom. While I was baptized as a baby, my family never attended church regularly. All that changed when I was 12 years old.
As I was practicing my guitar one day, my father came into my room and told me that he wanted to take me to the church he grew up in. He then told me about the history of the Mormon Church and how they kept an important “secret.” Long ago, there was a war in heaven between angels and demons. The angels had white skin and the demons had dark skin. After the angels won, the demons were cast down into a barren wasteland. The Mormon Church believed that Africans were the descendants of the demons and that is why they committed so much crime. This story caught my interest, as I wanted to meet other people that knew about this secret. However, my father explained that due to political reasons, the church had to hide this secret and let Africans into the priesthood in 1978. This is one of the reasons why he left the church as an adult. Nevertheless, growing up in the church taught him a lot of life lessons that he also wanted me to learn and experience.
The next day I went to the Mormon Church for the very first time. After a general meeting in the main room, my father went to the men’s group while I was put in a classroom with the other boys in my age group. Some of the boys knew me from school as the heavy metal kid that didn’t have any friends. After the initial introductions, they started talking about abortion. This was my chance to let them know that I also knew about the secret. I told them that without abortion, there would be much more “demon” minorities committing crimes and that any sane father would get his daughter an abortion if she were raped. After all, no one would want to raise a mulatto demon grandchild. The room went completely silent. Didn’t their dads tell them about the war between the angels and the demons? Apparently not, as I was immediately taken out of the room and brought to my dad to explain my choice of words.
When the teacher met my father and found out that he was a police officer, things turned awkward very quickly. A church member at this branch had just been arrested for inappropriate actions with a minor. This happened only a few days before my father brought me to the church. The teacher tried to ask my father if he was a real LDS member or not, but he was too scared and intimidated by my father to get the words out of his mouth. The Sunday school teacher then took me back to the class and asked me to keep my opinions to myself. After returning home, I told my dad that I didn’t like the church and that I didn’t want to go back. Unfortunately, my father was set on becoming active within the church again. As much as I begged, argued, and fought my dad, I had to go to church with him every Sunday. This was when I became a rebellious teenager.
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I hated going to church. I didn’t get along with any of the people there. None of the teens my age listened to heavy metal and they all knew that I didn’t share their faith and beliefs. Most of all, I hated the way they treated my dad. My dad was always considered an outsider to them. They didn’t have the balls to confront my father on his views and opinions, but I could tell that they looked down on him. I tried to tell my father that they didn’t accept him as one of their own. I tried to tell my dad that the modern Mormon Church was different than the Mormon Church he experienced in Idaho growing up. Why respect a community that doesn’t respect you?
During the five years that I attended the Mormon Church, I learned a lot about their community. If a religion is a product of its time, then Mormonism can be viewed as a pioneer religion that promoted strong communities with individual responsibility. For the average Mormon, life revolved around the Mormon Church. Youths groups held morning bible-study classes before high school. There were social activities for different age groups throughout the week that were held at the church and at different homes. After going on the obligatory missionary trip, many Mormon men got engaged and married within the church. Being part of the Mormon Church gave its members a community and a social circle.
When you think of Mormons, you often think of polite, happy, and successful white people. Their success and personalities do not come from magical plates translated by Joseph Smith. Their behaviors come from the culture they create and the life lessons they teach in between the sermons. Lessons on avoiding credit cards teach financial responsibility. Having different classes for men and women enforce gender roles while teaching valuable skills like cooking and home repair. The Mormon Church is also concerned about the pressures and temptations of modernity, which the Mormons call “the ways of the world.”
Within the five years that I went to church with my dad, he started to notice that the values of the Mormon Church were slowly being eroded by political correctness. Church elders could no longer tell the young adults to stick to their own race. They could no longer criticize people for having children out of wedlock. They spent so much time preaching to Tongans and Samoans that they ignored the demographic problems occurring in their own churches back home. The Mormon Church was a religion of white settlers and they can only maintain their identity with those demographics and those values. The Mormon Church is not even sustainable without white people. Do you think that Jamaal and Mohammed want to become missionaries? If I wasn’t opening my door to white missionaries, you better believe I’m not opening my door to demons and monsters.
As much as I hate to admit it, I learned some valuable lessons from my time attending the Mormon Church. I learned about fiscal responsibility and self-reliance. I also learned about the importance of dedication and perseverance. Most importantly, I learned that God helps those that help themselves. Some may find this concept counter-intuitive or cynical, but having faith in a higher power also means having faith in yourself and doing everything in your power to get the desired outcome. And whether people like it or not, I always try to have a positive outlook on life. After attending the Mormon Church for a few years, it just rubbed off on me. Such is the way of the world.
A few days ago, YouTube deleted the channels of Millennial Woes and Way of the World. They were de-platformed for their beliefs and for standing up for our people. In some ways, we are like the Mormons of the 19th century. After endless persecution, the Mormons decided to journey through the wilderness in search of a new home. They faced numerous hardships and struggles, but they eventually found a home of their own. Whereas Mormons were persecuted for their religion, we are persecuted for our race. No matter how many Coca-Cola training videos we watch, we are still going to be white. Although each person in the Dissident Right has their own faith and beliefs, we can put our differences aside to come together and strengthen our communities. Regardless of religion, we are all trying to stand up for our identity, our rights, and the lands of our fathers.
After my father passed away, I never returned to the Mormon Church. If man is a computer and religion is an operating system, then the Mormon Church was never meant to run on my hardware. Heavy metal was my religion as a teen, but that was always an implicit gateway to European mythology, heritage, and identity. Ironically, some of the heavy metal musicians I worshipped as a teenager became Christians as they got older. Even within our community, some of my best friends are Christians. So whatever religion you believe in, I hope that you can follow the Mormon example of finding success and happiness in your life. God helps those that help themselves. So let’s help each other take back our homelands. Such is the way of the world.
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11 comments
I love the choice of visual for this piece of content. How does Greg or whoever does the graphics select paintings for the articles? It’s one of my favorite things about the website. I was the one who requested that they include the name of the artist, so everyone can thank me for that. You’re welcome.
Thank you. I enjoy the little paintings, too. Every reminder of the excellence of white heritage is good. To be fair, though, I often laugh out loud at Phil Newman’s cartoons, and appreciate them, too. I can never forget that one of a smirking Jim Goad, a mushroom cloud in the background, and a sign saying “Portland 25 miles”. Perfect. And to think at one point about a quarter century ago, I came close to moving there – and thinking that in doing so I would be leaving diversity for an old fashioned whitopia! Near miss.
CC should crowdsource an essay on Why Portland is Such an Antifa Hellhole. I’d like to know what really happened.
Thank you, everybody has different experiences growing up, there are do many religions, denominations within each, impossible to keep track of.
It’s too bad the Mormons are cucking I did admire them for how they stick togeather and take care of each other. That will be a thing of the past soon enough now that they have bent the knee. I think people want truth and they’re not getting it from woke fake religion. I think that’s one reason so many congregations are fading away. Why would you want to listen to feel good BS when you know in your gut they are lieing.
Full Moon, I have read a lot of your posts for a while now and we have a lot in common. Heavy metal was my religion when I was a teenager and it still is in middle age. It’s not some adolescent stage. It is a complex and sophisticated form of music. Fortunately, I had enough friends in high school that were also metal heads, many of them still are. I’m not religious, however, like you I have constantly sought truth and meaning in religion. In the part of the country I’m from, the Babtist religion is the predominate faith. It to has been corupted by political correctness over the years. I’ve watched this transform over the years since I was a young boy. Clergy doesn’t critisize unwed mothers, black pathology, and other social ills. The Southern Babtist leadership is constantly apoligizing for slavery and attempting to court favor with blacks who have contempt for them regardless of how much kindness and good will they display. One thing that I find annoying about a lot of the clergy from diffrent faiths is how naive they are about society and human nature. Many of them have simplistict answers for the racial tension that exists in the country. They also think that because some black congregations have the same view of things like abortion (at least on the surface), that this is going to transcend our political diffrences and we will some how come together. Now, you are right about the mormons teaching about self reliance. Our people should embrace prepping to at least some extent because of natural disasters, like what just happened in Texas with the cold weather and the power outages. I lived through Hurricane Katrina and went without electricity for 3 weeks. Most of the crime and looting was done by blacks that occurred after the storm. We should also help each other out in times like that. Let me remind you of something, be mindful of who you express your views to, especially your coworkers and what you post on social media. We live in a survelieance culture. The state doesn’t have to do it, someone can get offended by something you post on social media that a year or six months ago was not considered offensive or controversial. Also keep in mind that someone can record what you say with a smart phone and send it to you employer or where your enrolled in school. You didn’t mention it in this post, but you have in past ones about finding a girlfriend that likes heavy metal. Keep looking, I believe you will find her. It is my view that in the past 20 years, that form of music has become more popular with women. Although, it I beleive it will primarily be popular mainly with males. I just pray that metal doesn’t get sucked into political corectness the way some country music performers have.
You must be in south Mississippi. I’m in Jackson, but I never lost power!
You are persceptive. I’m glad you didn’t lose power.
Cicada 31; I too, enjoy the rich illustrations Countercurrents offers. This one is actually from the Book of Mormon, and there are several similar illustrations in a good book illustrating incidents from the Mormon scriptures.
As for Mormonism, I actually read the Book of Mormon, and find it kind of boring and derivative of the Bible. It is for this reason that Gore Vidal argued that the Book of Mormon should be considered the great American novel, as it combines the Bible obsessed views of Americans and their frontier spirit to conquer anything west of the Appalachians…and beyond, if you count WWI and WWII.
I visited a new Mormon Church in St. Louis over twenty years ago, and it was fairly elaborate but also kind of bland. Mormons never quite transcend their middle American roots. I kind of want to like Mormons, but they’re a bit cultish for me. The race thing is good as well as the large families,, but they have gone gung-ho in converting Samoans and other lesser breeds without the law, to quote Kipling.
I have problems with the spiritual underwear thing.
And Mitt Romney. Really?
I never had quite the religious agonies Fullmoon had. I began as a Baptist, shocked my family by converting to Methodist (!)…mostly because of a girl. Very typical. Then I dropped out of religion, and in my mid thirties I went to a Unitarian church in Boston. I liked it, and when I moved back to Missouri, went to an Episcopalian church. I liked the liturgy and music as well as sermons, but the church closed up during Covid, so I couldn’t attend, and the online stuff doesn’t interest me. It began services again, but a new bishop banned them for safety’s sake.
The new bishop is black, non-American, a big defender of gay, lesbian, and LGBT. He’s homosexual, and enjoys life with his ‘husband.’
Remember, the Episcopalian church is 98 percent white, and they chose this thing to be the state bishop.
After that, I saw no use in continuing with this church. Back to having Sundays off, and I’m quite happy.
I’ve discovered some of my favorite artists(visual and otherwise) through CC. The artist Arnold Friberg was a Swedish convert to Mormonism, who as you say did a series on the Book of Mormon. I read a brief history of the Mormon church yesterday too. It’s a weird romantic thread of American history that few would believe.
It’s amazing how the wokeism seeps into every pore of western cultural influence. No institution can resist the Goodness of anti racism.
I’ve often thought we need a white religion, something akin to Mormonism that stresses not racism, but racial preservation, let’s say. The races are allies. Distinct and essential. I think that’s what Hale was trying to achieve but he went about it the wrong way, stressing racial slurs. An anonymous holy book with some real spiritual power should be written. I mean if people will believe Qanon they’ll believe anything.
Why are whites so self destructive? Why would they chose a black gay non American leader for their church that is 98% white??? 😱 This is why I can’t attend church. They are so woke it’s painful. The pedophilia problem also doesn’t help convince me to take my child amongst them. I DO however defend any Christian if they are attacked online or in person provided they also share my European heritage. I love the churches of Europe and I wound go into my local church outside my window when I lived in Brussels to just take in the sights and smell and ponder life. Then one day without explanation they made it into a makeshift refugee camp and I never went back obviously.
Long ago, there was a war in heaven between angels and demons. The angels had white skin and the demons had dark skin. After the angels won, the demons were cast down into a barren wasteland.
As those war is mentioned in many religions and traditions, I suggest there was something real behind the legend. For example, the primitive humans could see some “air and space battles” between different extraterrestrial races and perceive the aliens as angels and demons.
Sorry that I’m late to this discussion.
Wonderful article, I really enjoyed it as well as the Comments here. And, I will add my thanks to the Commenter Cicada31 for getting the names of the artwork. At first, I didn’t plan on reading this article as I scrolled through the article choices. As far as Counter Currents goes, I came for the Goad and stayed for the content. So, when I saw this article with the Friberg artwork, it surprised me because I am Mormon and I know this Friberg painting very well. In addition, I am a Romney, a distant cousin of Mitt. His father and my grandmother were cousins. To the point of this article, I am not happy with Mitt, I do feel he is the tip of the spear for the Mormon church, rather, the new Mormon church, the woke Mormon church. There is, as the author noted, a shift in the church to both proselyte to and feature colored people. It’s overwhelming. The church magazines routinely feature either colored populations or red-headed whites. It’s the same trend in the world at large: companies have turned their advertising over to woke marketing firms who now force blacks, and mixed couples with overtly-black children, on us. When they do show Whites, the Whites are stupid, fat, in need of help from blacks, or so inept and because of this ineptness, they strangly inhabit beautiful homes, have great jobs, lives, etc. despite their Whiteness. Thw only cool, upscale, slightly goateed White man you’ll see almost always is with a black woman, or is in some other level of wokeness and therefore “gets it.” For some reason, another thing advertisers do when showing Whites is limit them to red-headed Whites. I’m not sure why they show red heads, perhaps red-headed Whites represent such a low number of White population. There’s also talk of red hair becoming extinct at some point and if so, how perfect to again and again show defective Whites living but for the grace of blacks. Heaven forbid that a blonde, blue-eyed White be shown in a commercial.
The reason I veered of Mormonism into advertising is The Great Reset. My understanding of this reset is that a big part of it is that corporations now don’t only sell widgets, they are duty-bound to tell us how to think. For example, look at Dove soap’s twitter page @Dove. What is the soap’s mission statement?
“We’re committed to ending systemic racism by:
• Expanding the CROWN Coalition
Funding
• Empowering young people
• Amplifying Black voices”
Let me repeat: THIS IS FROM DOVE SOAP!!! And every, every tweet is about colored people, or muslim woman wearing hijabs. Why does Unilever, the conglomerate that owns Dove soap, feel the need to lecture us on these mission statement points? At my local Walgreen’s in the lotion aisle, here’s a Unilever/Vaseline shelf talker card hanging perpendicular to the Vaseline jars. The card sports a picture of a dour, pissed-off black woman. The card says, “See how Vaseline is working toward equity in care for Black and Brown skin (reverential capitalization was done by Unilever).” What? Didn’t we grow up believing all skin was equal? Yes. Well, that’s no good anymore. Corporations are lecturing us that equity is the new benchmark. Why? As Tucker Carlson brilliantly points out, they do it to hide their own misdeeds.
I feel the Mormon Church is doing the same, doing The Great Reset. People say how the Mormon Church denied blacks the Priesthood until 1978. Compared to what lots of other religions did to blacks (Islam being a huge murderer and enslaver of blacks for centuries), this seems pretty minor but being a largely-White religion, let’s attack it for this grievous sin. I like this site that discusses Mormon treatment of blacks versus other religions:
https://mormonfaq.com/mormon-beliefs/what-is-mormonism/blacks-and-the-priesthood
In addition, historically, many top church leaders said to only marry within your race.
Conference – teary-eyed church authority made an impassioned plea for help for immigrants. What? Never a big issue the church’s welfare program has been helping all sorts of people (many times fat and indolent) and this welfare system historically really does foster independence, but as of late it seems like another handout, im not imvolved so …
A few years ago church donated 250K to the Lutheran volag. Again, what? Why? As members we pay 10% of our earnings/gain in tithing. I have a very solid belief that when my wife and I pau our full tithe, we are abundantly blessed. It happens year after year and that is the promise of paying tithing: you pay it, you are blessed. For us, the blessings are many but I would say mainly financial. No hocus pocus, we really believe in its power. But when the chirch takes that money and gives it to an immigrant group, it doesn’t sit right. Lutheran volag is paid by the head from our taxes. Lutheran volag gets its marching orders from the President who decides how many immigrants should be allowed. The UN “suggests” how many and from where the US should take in and as we all know, UN never suggests the real needy as far as asylum ( Christians/South Aftican White farmers, Why has the church, with its own vast and world-class best welfare system giving money to the immigrant-settling VOLAG Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)? The chiech gave LIRS $650,000 in 2016 while promising $5 million to be divided among the 9 total VOLAGs that jam the UN-selected refugees into cities in our country that never asked for them, never voted to have them, yet are shamed if they complain. The church’s semi annual conferences are increasingly populated by colored leaders. The general conference going on today and tomorrow have numerous hispanic and african speakers. When White leaders speak on topics about children and families, there will be picturea of children and families. Most are of blacks, hispanica, and asians. An White leader stated
“As followers of Jesus Christ, we are dismayed when we hear of how children of God are mistreated based on their race. We have been heartbroken to hear of recent attacks on people who are Black, Asian, Latino, or of any other group.” —
Or any orher race?? There is a war on Whites, the White race, everything that Whites have created. Why can’t this be called out by a top church leader? Because the church, as part of the Great Reset, is falling in line with all corporations: Coke, Delta, MLB, Amaerican Airlines, Dell, NFL. That’s is for now. It’s not rhe chirxh I grew up with but I guess the same can be said for so many things. Each generation feels it is living theough the last days but I re eally wonder about this generation, these times. Even when crazy things were happening in the world, most institutions remained strong, stable, unchanging and an anchor to cling to during crazy times. No more.
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