It persecutes and slays members of the church, seeks financial profit, is sexually immoral, takes important information out of the scriptures, has political power over the earth, and will be destroyed in a war.
Robinson finds five of the six characteristics from 1 Nephi attributed to Babylon in the Book of Revelation: persecuting members of the church, seeking material gain, sexual immorality, having political power, and being destroyed by the kings who make war against "the Lamb.
Members of LDS Church leadership under president David O. McKay disapproved of Mormon Doctrine, and made McConkie promise not to publish a second edition.
[4] In a similar vein, the semi-official Encyclopedia of Mormonism states: "Though many Protestants, following the lead of Martin Luther, have linked this evil force described in Revelation 17 with the Roman Catholic church, the particular focus of these LDS and New Testament scriptures seems rather to be on earlier agents of apostasy in the Jewish and Christian traditions".
[11] Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming, in their commentary The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, published by BCC Press, advocate for a reading that identifies the "abominable church" as an archetype, a force that "worships wealth" and "oppresses the saints of God."