[jonestown]

Thanks for posting this.

Don't be bothered by the posters knocking you. It is true that you're supposed to give a link to the article's source. But I strongly suspect the reason they're taking such issue is because they don't like what your article said, and they absolutely refuse to discuss the issues.

I am fully convinced that if the founder's ideas you posted were postulated today by 'unknowns', these posters would consider those ideas as alien and seditious.
They will not come out and say so because they are governed by the Cult of Personality, and the founders still have too much clout for them to outright attack.
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Thanks. The 'unknown' factor is indeed the reason I didn't credit the author, Ezra Taft Benson.

I don't agree with Benson in every detail on the "Proper Role", but in general, his 1968 essay is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, imho.

The Proper Role of Government by Ezra Taft Benson
Address:http://www.zionsbest.com/proper_role.html Changed:11:51 AM on Monday, December 6, 2004

[pageonetoo]

Ezra Taft Benson was a former head of the Mormon Church. These folk have a wonderful social system, and take great care of the tithing members of their "stakes". He expounds quite well here, on Gum'ts role.

Unfortunately, The Mormons also believe there is more than one God, and that Jesus failed to accomplish His mission... As a Bible thumping evangelical, I strongly disagree with them.

Mormons are fiscal and social conservatives, but, IMO, their theology belongs in the "rat poison" category. 90% of its content is wholesome food, 10% is the active poison. You die when you partake of it, but never see it coming!

Jonestown was the site of the "kool aid" massacre... Also deadly to your health... Your choice of nom dujour is interesting!

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