Posted on 10/07/2001 7:50:13 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
That's just what we need now at a time like this from the clymers who infest this site.
I wonder if Dr. Ag Thorn would be dismayed by the disproportionate numbers of us members of a "quasi-Christian cult" who serve in the FBI, the CIA, all branches of our armed forces, and other government agencies whose members protect our nation and put their (our) lives on the line every day....
Thanks for those kind words.
The recommendation to be prudent and prepared for hard times is good advice anytime. It is especially important now.
http://www.lds.org/media/newsrelease/extra/display/0,6025,317-1-486-2,FF.html
I must confess, I wish he had been more like J. Golden Kimball when it came to this.
My response, at least here, will be two appropriate words from a hero. Let's roll.
You'll get no argument from me when you talk about the fundies, the extremists who support OBL.
But I'm willing to cut mainstream Muslims a little slack. The Arabs he preached to were practicing idol worship, human sacrafice and all other forms of ancient paganism. It would've been like sending Christ to preach to the Molech worshipers.
Mohammed esentially gave his people the law of Moses because they weren't ready to receive Christ and, 1400 years later, most of them still aren't ready. You've even got the BinLaden types who want to return to the pre-Mohammed fundamentals of human sacrafice. So getting them to follow the limited truths Mohammed taught might be the first step toward eventual conversion.
The Jews may not be ready to receive Christ, but at least they are well past the point of wanting surpress competiting religions, save for a few like Abe Foxman who claim to be Jews but are really members of the secular humanist state church, albeit somewhat less fanatical than the Taliban.
Can't disagree with anything you say. There certainly are a tremendous number of "Bad" so called "Christians" .. and there are a lot of "Good" Mormons, Muslims, Hindu's, etc.
Amen
What I expect to unfold is for the USA to eventualy gain a clear victory. Perhaps this will come soon with little pain, perhaps after a long and difficult struggle, but afterwards there will be another period of great prosperity and also and even further turning away from God than what happened after the Gulf War. In short, a following of the pattern the Nephites fell into that eventually lead to their destruction.
This war might lay the foundation for the gosple to to into the Arab world and for further growth in the church as well.
We must use this time to prepare, free ourselves from debt and become as self-sufficient as we can to weather the greater storms ahead.
Of course I could be totaly wrong.
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