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Summary
- LDS Living, a Latter-day Saint magazine published by Deseret Book, described Mark Rober as a Latter-day Saint in articles of October 14 and November 3, 2021.
- Rober graduated from Brigham Young University, which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founded and supports, in 2004.
- He worked on the Mars Curiosity rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and later at Apple before turning to YouTube full time in 2019.
- No reliable published source says whether he served a mission, and none reports that he has left the church.
- In 2001 the Catholic Church ruled that baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not valid.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Danielle Christensen, “Glitter bombing YouTube prankster Mark Rober featured in ‘Y Magazine’,” LDS Living, 14 October 2021. https://www.ldsliving.com/glitter-bomb-youtube-prankster-mark-rober-featured-in-y-magazine/s/10101
- Emily Linder, “Latter-day Saint YouTuber rallies the internet to purge trash from the ocean: 12 million pounds and counting,” LDS Living, 3 November 2021. https://www.ldsliving.com/latter-day-saint-mark-rober-rallies-the-internet-to-remove-12-million-pounds-of-trash-from-the-ocean-so-far/s/10167
- Brittany Karford Rogers, “YouTuber Mark Rober Is Mr. Curiosity and King of Pranks,” Y Magazine (Brigham Young University), Summer 2021. https://magazine.byu.edu/article/mark-rober/
- “The Mission of Brigham Young University,” Brigham Young University. https://aims.byu.edu/byu-mission-statement
- “Are ‘Mormons’ Christian?” Gospel Topics Essays, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/christians?lang=eng
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Response to a ‘Dubium’ on the validity of baptism conferred by ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’, called ‘Mormons’,” 5 June 2001. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni_en.html
- Luis Ladaria, S.J., “The Question of the Validity of Baptism conferred in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2001. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni-ladaria_en.html
