Words of wisdom from my greenie (a new mormon missionary) days.
"Commandment #11: Don't be a Prick!"
"The covenants we take in the temple are serious, everything else is a joke."
I also enjoyed
Michael Thoming's recent post about war.
I offer my prayers for the security and safe return of all those who serve in our armed forces. These brave men and women deserve our support as they put their lives in jeopardy to satisfy the demands of the warlike people that we have become.
In 1976 Spencer W. Kimball said:
"We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel—ships, planes, missiles, fortifications—and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan’s counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior’s teaching:
“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.” (Matt. 5:44–45.)"
the full text of his remarks can be found here -http://www.lds.org/ensign/1976/06/the-false-gods-we-worship?lang=eng
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