Political Lessons from the Book of Mormon
No one can hurt the U.S. but us.
2 Nephi 1
31 . . . Nothing, save it shall be iniquity among them, shall harm or disturb their prosperity upon the face of this land forever.
2 Nephi 1
31 . . . Nothing, save it shall be iniquity among them, shall harm or disturb their prosperity upon the face of this land forever.
32 Wherefore, if ye shall keep the commandments of the Lord, the Lord hath consecrated this land for the security of thy seed . . .
I've repeated this a lot. We do not need our military to be so big. We do not need troops permanently stationed in over 100 countries. We do not need army troops on the ground inside the U.S. We do not needs stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
If we are righteous, God will protect us. If not . . .
Majority Rule on Abortion and Gay Marriage
Mosiah 29
People who would be better off with more Democrats in office consistently vote Republican because they worry about abortion and gay marriage.
The President is not the defender of faith. It's his job to carry out the will of the people, and to represent us abroad. If the majority of the people were ever wicked enough to demand abortions from every mother and hands-on learning of homosexual practices, there would be little the president could do about it.
It is our duty (we the people) to protect the sanctity of marriage and of children by living morally, and teaching morals to those who will listen. If ever a law threatens our morality, we, the people, can rise up and oppose it. As many church members have in the case of Prop. 8.
To consistently vote against our own best interests for fear of such a law passing gives power to those who know how to manipulate religion for political gain.
Others
Helaman 6
22 And it came to pass that they did have their signs, yea, their asecret signs, and their bsecret words; and this that they might distinguish a brother who had entered into the covenant, that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do he should not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong to his band, who had taken this covenant.
We are able to harm others if we view them as different from ourselves. We dehumanize them. We think of them as foreigners, illegals, terrorists, Arabs, Muslims, spics, chinks, Jews, Southerners, fags, Democrats, Republicans, druggies, criminals, feminists, tree-huggers, lazy poor, etc.
This "us and them" behavior destroyed the Nephites. The faithless burned the faithful. One side would trump up false charges to invade the other. In the end, this depravity of thought led the Lamanites to starve their prisoners and feed them human flesh. Nephites raped their female prisoners, before torturing and cannibalizing them.
End Thought
Our tendency to use war to solve our problems is an indication that we as a nation lack any real faith and charity.
I've repeated this a lot. We do not need our military to be so big. We do not need troops permanently stationed in over 100 countries. We do not need army troops on the ground inside the U.S. We do not needs stockpiles of nuclear weapons.If we are righteous, God will protect us. If not . . .
Majority Rule on Abortion and Gay Marriage
Mosiah 29
26 Now it is not common that the avoice of the people desireth anything bcontrary to that whichis right; but it is common for the lesser part of the cpeople to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.
27 And aif the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then that is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
People who would be better off with more Democrats in office consistently vote Republican because they worry about abortion and gay marriage.
The President is not the defender of faith. It's his job to carry out the will of the people, and to represent us abroad. If the majority of the people were ever wicked enough to demand abortions from every mother and hands-on learning of homosexual practices, there would be little the president could do about it.
It is our duty (we the people) to protect the sanctity of marriage and of children by living morally, and teaching morals to those who will listen. If ever a law threatens our morality, we, the people, can rise up and oppose it. As many church members have in the case of Prop. 8.
To consistently vote against our own best interests for fear of such a law passing gives power to those who know how to manipulate religion for political gain.
Others
Helaman 6
22 And it came to pass that they did have their signs, yea, their asecret signs, and their bsecret words; and this that they might distinguish a brother who had entered into the covenant, that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do he should not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong to his band, who had taken this covenant.
We are able to harm others if we view them as different from ourselves. We dehumanize them. We think of them as foreigners, illegals, terrorists, Arabs, Muslims, spics, chinks, Jews, Southerners, fags, Democrats, Republicans, druggies, criminals, feminists, tree-huggers, lazy poor, etc.
This "us and them" behavior destroyed the Nephites. The faithless burned the faithful. One side would trump up false charges to invade the other. In the end, this depravity of thought led the Lamanites to starve their prisoners and feed them human flesh. Nephites raped their female prisoners, before torturing and cannibalizing them.
End Thought
Our tendency to use war to solve our problems is an indication that we as a nation lack any real faith and charity.
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