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world. For the Mormons, the United States is literally a God-designated nation, the place where it decided to anchor its church.
90% of Mormons firmly believe that the US Constitution is a divinely inspired document and a doctrinal element. In the Doctrine and Covenants, the sacred book of Mormons, God would have provided that the Constitution of the land would be established, "by the hands of wise men." Even if Joseph Smith was assassinated at age 38, his ideas would be part of what would politically inspire the notion of the new American century, which will make politicians believe, their messianic mission of leadership in the affairs of the world.
Many Mormons and their doctrine will infiltrate the decision centers of the United States and work toward the realization of the United States agenda of great magnitude as opposed to the axis of evil often represented by others as the Muslim Middle East. Also, behind the agendas of spreading democracy, there is no less an agenda of religious civilization that could only be opposed to another religious current like Islam, and suddenly the confrontation between the West and the Middle East could only take on a notion, of shock of culture and beliefs.
Apart from Mormonism, the United States remains a predominantly Christian land, where the swearing of the highest authority of the country is done on a Bible. A position of president of the United States of America that christian lobbies are very influent to concede to anyone who is in league with them. Strong links unite Christian entities, both Catholic and Protestant, and the country of Uncle Sam. Also, the Vatican played a crucial role in the
1980s to fight communism in Eastern Europe, becoming an ally of the United States, at the turning point of the cold war. If the diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican were established only in January 1984. This is because from their birth, the United States has claimed a model that advocated the remoteness of the United States, from the old regime of Europe, considered corrupt, in the connivance which reigned between the Church and the State. The majority of Christians in the United States being reformist, it was normal that like Martin Luther, they continue in the ideology of secession with the Roman catholic church. The normalization of relations with the Catholic Church became more than logical with the election of a Polish Pope John Paul II in 1978. Also, the collaborations that had started since the Second World War between the ancestor of the CIA, the OSS , and the Vatican, will be officialized.
After, the second world war a network of exfiltration called "Ratline" was set up by the Franciscan priest Krunoslav Draganovic who was a member of the Ustashi movement, to protect Nazi or fascists war criminals. OSS agent Emerson Bigelow reported on October 21, 1946, about a 200 million Swiss gold shipment from the National Bank of Croatia to finance these channels. Source: US News and World Report, A Vow of Silence p. 36, March 30, 1998. The exfiltration of the Nazis in Latin America, facilitated by the Vatican's laissez-passer paperwork, aimed to protect useful elements of the Nazi regime. which later had to be used to subdue Latin American regimes that tended to pour into communism. On August 29, 1947, Pius XII published in the Osservatore Romano a letter addressed to him by President Truman in which the latter called for a union of moral forces in the world and considered "that a lasting peace can only be established on Christian principles. So, for much of the thirteen years of his post-war pontificate, Pius XII will follow an uncompromising anti-Communist line and "placing the moral weight of Catholic teaching against the USSR and its allies, while drawing closer to West.
The ties between the Vatican and the United