The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches its members to "renounce war and proclaim peace."

Through its investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, it has held more than $250 million in the world's largest defense contractors — Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin — documented in its own SEC filings.

Four hundred feet from the angel Moroni on the Salt Lake Temple sits the fund that owns them.

In this episode, combat veteran Dan McKnight — born and raised in the faith — lays the contradiction out plainly: the prophet who called missiles "gods of stone and steel," the sermon the church later edited, the 1942 declaration that "war is of Satan," J. Reuben Clark's warning from inside the First Presidency, and the widow's tithe that funds it all.This is not an attack on the Latter-day Saints or the gospel. It's a search for it — and a question for the men who manage the money.

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING

• Ensign Peak Advisors — SEC EDGAR filing history (13F holdings):https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001454984&type=13F

• SEC enforcement action & 2023 settlement (Church + Ensign Peak, $5M penalty): https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

• Spencer W. Kimball, "The False Gods We Worship" (Ensign, June 1976): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/06/the-false-gods-we-worship

• Doctrine and Covenants 98:16 ("renounce war and proclaim peace"):https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.16

• Gordon B. Hinckley, "War and Peace" (General Conference, April 2003): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2003/04/war-and-peace

• J. Reuben Clark — General Conference address, October 1946 (Conference Report)

• J. Reuben Clark — Church News, 2 April 1952• First Presidency statement on war, 1942 (Conference Report, April 1942)

• Jerreld L. Newquist, comp., Prophets, Principles, and National Survival (1964), ch. 20, "War and Peace" — print source for the Clark, Madison, and First Presidency passages

• Robert Pape, "Escalation Trap" — https://escalationtrap.substack.com

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