Ex-Mormon Influencer Says the Angel Moroni Is a Demon in Viral Interview

A clip from Allie Beth Stuckey’s show“Relatable”is blowing up after ex-Mormon influencer Kighley Medrano said Mormonism has“satanic underpinnings”and described the angel Moroni as a demon. Medrano was raised in the LDS church and later became an evangelical Christian after marrying her husband. She backed her claim by pointing to temple endowment videos, where she says Satan instructs participants to put on fig-leaf aprons.

The moment she calls her turning point is striking in its simplicity. A Christian friend told her that“Satan comes dressed as an angel of light,”and Medrano says she immediately concluded that Moroni, the figure central to LDS origin accounts, was a demon. She also argues that temple rituals re-erect the veil and undo the work of Christ.

The interview is fueling a much bigger conversation about whether Mormonism should be considered part of mainstream Christianity, and ex-members are jumping into the comments with their own stories. The clip is short, but the debate is anything but. Where do you land on the question of ex-members as critics of their former faith?