Posted on 08/02/2021 3:37:00 PM PDT by Trump20162020
How’s that “severe Conservatism” going under jao xiden?
History says...
...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844:Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands
that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’
Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.
Grease Spot Prophecy – Mormon Quotes
Millennial Star, Vol. 22, No. 29, (July 21, 1860), pg. 455; “I prophesied by virtue of the holy Priesthood vested in me, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that, if Congress will not hear our petition and grant us protection, they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them, and there shall be nothing left of them – not even a grease spot!“.
So what references have Church leaders made to the Constitution "hanging by a thread?"
Brigham Young said:
Will the Constitution be destroyed? No: it will be held inviolate by this people; and, as Joseph Smith said, "The time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction." It will be so.
With regard to the doings of our fathers and the Constitution of the United States, I have to say, they present to us a glorious prospect in the future, but one we cannot attain to until the present abuses in the Government are corrected.[5]
Orson Hyde said,
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the Constitution should be in danger, and rescue it, and save it. This may be so; but I do not recollect that he said exactly so. I believe he said something like this—that the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said he, If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language, as nearly as I can recollect it.[6]
Brigham Young and Orson Hyde both clearly state that the Constitution will be in grave danger of being destroyed. If the constitution is to be preserved it will be because the "Elders" of the Church will step forward and provide the support that will help to preserve the Constitution. The Elders of the Church will always be in support of the constitution, and will not ever be in a position to replace or supplant the constitutional principles in that document. Note that this belief has nothing to do with the so-called "White Horse" prophecy, but in fact preceded the date claimed for that prophecy.
The concern for the Constitution of the United States of America is a real and valid concern of the authorities and membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Because it was included as part of the White Horse does not give the White Horse any sort of credibility. It is an entirely separate concern.
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Joseph_Smith/Prophecies/White_Horse_prophecy
Do current LDS leaders agree with Hyde's assessment of the situtation?
That filthy bastard.
First, they practiced on Sarah Palin.
As questions go, probably way down on their list below the level of any importance, and that’s if I have any inkling.
I don’t.
And if the leaders don’t care, why should a mere pew warmer give any time at all thinking about it.
It’s like the Legislature should be, there is no difference between leaders and bench warmers. They are both elected by their constituents.
The difference begins with chest puffing power grabs and the like.
So to in the pew, but without the chest puffing stuff. At least in theory.
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