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Being Right and Wrong

It seems I upset a few people with my post of yesterday. That wasn’t my intention. Given two of the three examples I used for living according to the scriptural injunction were based on my experience in the LDS church (tithing and polygamy), and that most of my readers are LDS, I knew there might be some discomfort for some people. But I expected it to be in relation to tithing and/or polygamy. I did receive one message from a lovely LDS woman about tithing, but every single other comment was about immigration – and not a single person had a positive thing to say about it. Indeed, quite a few were angry that I dared suggest a scriptural approach to the issue.

On the one hand, I probably should have foreseen this. I know immigration is a hot-button issue for a lot of people, and it does appear to be more prevalent amongst the Christian right, which the Mormon church definitely identifies with.

But on the other hand, it is both bewildering and soul-crushing.

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Discerning Truth From Counterfeit

‘Today Christians … stand at the head of [this country]… I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity … We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit … We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press – in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past … (few) years.’ – Adolf Hitler (Cline, Austin. “Adolf Hitler on Christianity: Quotes.” Learn Religions, Apr. 5, 2023, learnreligions.com/adolf-hitler-on-christianity-quotes-248190.)

Angel Studios recent film release, Truth and Treason, has been getting a fair amount of publicity in the circles I inhabit online. I haven’t seen it yet, but I want to. It tells the true story of a young 17 year old Helmuth Hübener who resisted the Nazis and was executed by them. What the film doesn’t tell you is that Helmuth was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that he was also excommunicated by the Church for his resistance to the Nazis.

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