JakeStarkey
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Political discussions on USMB bring out the junior high school in everyone.
Hugh Nibley (a LDS scholar, whom I admired) said, “"Nothing is easier than to identify one’s own favorite political, economic, historical, and moral convictions with the gospel. That gives one a neat, convenient, but altogether too easy advantage over one’s fellows. If my ideas are the true ones—and I certainly will not entertain them if I suspect for a moment that they are false!—then, all truth being one, they are also the gospel, and to oppose them is to play the role of Satan. This is simply insisting that our way is God’s way and therefore, the only way. It is the height of impertinence."
Hugh Nibley “Beyond Politics,” 298.
This goes for not only LDS believers but all theists, deists, atheists, and don't give a phuckeists.
Neither Comrade Donald nor Shrill Hil are devils; nor are they any type of candidates the more we think about the election that we want elected. They are gravely and perhaps both criminally flawed.
Consider Gary Johnson and promise yourself to be more involved in picking candidates at all levels for 2018 and 2020.
Hugh Nibley (a LDS scholar, whom I admired) said, “"Nothing is easier than to identify one’s own favorite political, economic, historical, and moral convictions with the gospel. That gives one a neat, convenient, but altogether too easy advantage over one’s fellows. If my ideas are the true ones—and I certainly will not entertain them if I suspect for a moment that they are false!—then, all truth being one, they are also the gospel, and to oppose them is to play the role of Satan. This is simply insisting that our way is God’s way and therefore, the only way. It is the height of impertinence."
Hugh Nibley “Beyond Politics,” 298.
This goes for not only LDS believers but all theists, deists, atheists, and don't give a phuckeists.
Neither Comrade Donald nor Shrill Hil are devils; nor are they any type of candidates the more we think about the election that we want elected. They are gravely and perhaps both criminally flawed.
Consider Gary Johnson and promise yourself to be more involved in picking candidates at all levels for 2018 and 2020.
