Almost anyone who truly knows me, knows that I am passionate about a few things.
I stand by what I feel is right until I have been proven otherwise. Usually peoples differing opinions just send me to doing more research on what is truly the correct principle. Always a friendly debate is welcome. If I have a differing opinion than someone else, I let them do the research on there own beliefs, and come to their own conclusions. Recently I sent out a quote that I felt was good and true, without doing the research. Several people asked me for hard copies of this quote, I was only able to give them my reference to H. Verlan Andersons book A Moral Basis to a Free Society. Thankfully there are others who are greater scholars than I who went directly to the source.(Far greater Scholars;) So for anyone who is interested here is the quote and a link to the information Mr. Connor Boyack is sharing with us. I appreciate his diligence in searching this out. I know its quite a read. Yet, I truly learned a great deal from reading it thoroughly. So if you are willing to pay the price, go ahead and read away.
This is a quote from the First Presidency of the LDS Church to the treasury from 1941.
"The church as a church does not believe in war and yet since its organization whenever war has come we have done our part.. we do thoroughly believe in building up our home defences to the maximum extent necessary, but we do not believe that aggression should be carried on in the name and under the false cloak of defence. We therefore look with sorrowing eyes at the present use to which a great part of the funds being raised by taxes and by borrowing is being put.. We believe that our real threat comes from within and not from without, and it comes from the underlying spirit common to Naziism, Fascism, and Communism, namely, the spirit which would array class against class, which would set up a socialistic state of some sort, which would rob the people of the liberties which we possess under the constitution, and would set up such a reign of terror as exists now in many parts of Europe..( LDS First Presidency, 1941)Here is a link to the rest of Connors Research. I feel it is definitly worth reading.www.connorboyack.com
2 comments:
This is awsome mel. thanks!
It is pretty cool huh. Thank Connor though. He went to all the work.:)
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