Dave Daubenmire:

"The problem in America is not that the god-less are acting like their father, but that Christians are not acting like theirs."

From D&C 123

13 Therefore, that we should waste and awear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—
14 These should then be attended to with great aearnestness.
15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

On the war in Afghanistan:

"We're not leaving Afghanistan prematurely. ... In fact, we're not ever leaving at all."

Defense Secretary, Robert Gates

"You have to recognize that I don't think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives."

General David Petraeus

Thomas Jefferson:

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."

Important Message

Trade war with China??

"Today, the downturn is rolling ahead full bore and the rhetoric against the Yuan is nearing fever pitch! Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated this past week that a 20% Yuan devaluation would trigger severe job losses and social instability, putting his country at risk. That is to say, the Chinese are presenting this (falsely) as a matter of life and death for them, a situation that requires an extreme response if escalation occurs. . . . Some U.S. business leaders have spoken out against pressure on the Yuan, pointing out that China holds all the cards if a currency war is initiated. . . . This is absolutely true. The problem is that the elites in our government fueling this conflict are well aware that China can and likely will begin a T-bond dump that will implode our currency. They know that China has absolutely no incentive to increase imports from the United States while it holds all the industrial capability necessary to supply itself with needed goods and a solidified ASEAN trading bloc to support its expansion. They also know full well that tariffs and trade embargos in the midst of economic meltdown tend to inflame retaliation and lead to even greater collapse, just as the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act did in 1930, right before the Great Depression spiraled out of control."
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Prepare To Be Betrayed by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

"all candidates tend to water down their positions after the primaries . . . to get funding from the corporatists allied with both parties.

The larger problem occurs once they take office. Here is where the serious problems begin. They are leaned on by their new colleagues, the party elites, related financial interests, the press, and the entire system of which they are now part. Are they going to make themselves enemies of that system, or are they going to work within the system in order to achieve reform, and not just for one term but more terms down the line? Doing a good job means being part of the structure; doing a bad job means being an enemy of the very system that they now serve."

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From Søren Kierkegaard’s "Works of Love"

"If honestly before God you wholeheartedly forgive your enemy . . . then you may also dare to hope for your forgiveness, because they are one and the same. God forgives you neither more nor less nor otherwise than as you forgive those who have sinned against you. It is only an illusion to imagine that one oneself has forgiveness although one is reluctant to forgive others . . . It is also a delusion to believe in one’s own forgiveness when one refuses to forgive, for how could a person truly believe in forgiveness if his own life is an objection against the existence of forgiveness!"
. . .
"God will do unto you exactly as you do unto others. In the Christian sense, you have nothing at all to do with what others do unto you – it does not concern you; it is a curiosity, an impertinence, a lack of good sense on your part to meddle in things that are absolutely no more your concern than if you were not present. You have to do only with what you do unto others, or how you take what others do unto you. The direction is inward; essentially you have to do only with yourself before God."

The LDS Church & Islam: some headlines . . .

"McKay Coppins: Why I defend Muslims"
"LDS Church, Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney oppose Quran burning"
"Orange County, Calif., Muslims, Mormons break fast"
"LDS church gymnasium open for Muslim worship services"
"Muslim 'Day of Dignity' observed in Baltimore" (Muslim-Mormon team catches some people by surprise)
"Fast broken, ties built in New Haven, Conn" (Muslims, Jews, and Mormons from the community to share both in the nightly celebration of Ramadan and in a discussion about the traditions of fasting in all three faiths)

Gunning for Islam by Justin Raimondo

"The very idea of forbidding the building of a mosque, or any religious edifice, is anti-American to the core, and must be fought tooth and nail. What could be a clearer confirmation of the libertarian contention that a foreign policy of global intervention necessarily means the rollback of our civil liberties here at home? For libertarians, there is no question but that Muslims must be defended against the gathering lynch mob."

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Seeing Third Nephi as the Holy of Holies of the Book of Mormon by John Welch

"the Sermon on "the Mount" recalls the fact that the temple in Israel was equated with "the mountain of the Lord." Matthew begins chapter 5 in his gospel with these words: "And Jesus went up into the mountain (anebē eis to oros)" (my translation). It does not say, "And Jesus went out on a gentle hillside." Significantly, these words in Matthew are precisely the same as the words in the Septuagint text of Exodus 19:3 and 24:12, when Moses and the elders went up into Mount Sinai (anebē eis to oros). In the mountain, the seventy elders "saw God" and received the law. In the sermon, Jesus similarly promised his disciples that if they are pure in heart, "they [too] shall see God," and he likewise gave them a new dispensation of the law. As some recent biblical scholars have said, these points of parallelism "clearly cannot be ignored." 15 Moreover, when Psalm 24 asks, "Who shall ascend into the hill [or mountain] of the Lord" (anabēsetai eis to oros—the same words again), the psalm is asking, who is worthy to enter the temple? The precise verbal similarity between the Greek texts of these passages in Exodus, Matthew 5, and Psalm 24 comes as further confirmation of the temple setting for the Sermon on the Mount."

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Church Statement on the Burning of the Koran

SALT LAKE CITY 8 September 2010 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, through a spokesman, issued the following statement today in response to news media inquiries:

“A key tenet of our faith is to accord everyone the freedom to worship as they choose. It is regrettable that anyone would regard the burning of any scriptural text as a legitimate form of protest or disagreement.”

The Triumph of Evil by John Kozy

". . . the war against evil by the good cannot be won using evil tactics. Evil never yields goodness, and by using these evil practices, the amount of evil in the world increases both in amount and extent. Attempting to save the nation by becoming what you are trying to save the nation from is suicidal."

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Quote from Anthony Gregory's "The Persistence of Red-State Fascism"

"The idea of religious tolerance should be sacred in America. If there is any reason to be patriotically proud of America’s legacy of freedom, religious freedom is at the top of the list. We were all taught as children how great America was in this regard. And, unlike some other examples of American exceptionalist propaganda, there is actually truth to this. We have no religious wars within our borders. We have no official state religion, thank God. Catholics, Protestants, Jews, atheists, Buddhists and others get along in nearly perfect harmony. This is the crown jewel of American liberty.

The rightwing, however, considers it "politically correct" or even "treasonous" to defend the right of Muslims to pray on their own private property. The explosion of hysteria over the Islamic Community Center in Manhattan was not, as some would have it, an example of political trivia taking over the national debate – it was rather an important national debate over a very fundamental issue on which Americans should by now be mostly united, but instead the rightwing clearly took the wrong side, showing their craven willingness to reject private property rights and the foundation of civilization simply to express their love of the U.S. government and their hatred of Islam."