3 thoughts on “Warmongering Christians…”

1. So….was Captain Moroni a warmongering Christian? Were Helaman and Mormon and Joshua and David warmongering Christians? Just wondering…. 🤔 “… There is a time to kill, and a time to heal…”

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   • Nope, they (Moroni & Helaman) weren’t. They advocated defense when the enemy was advancing on their homes and families and religion. They weren’t out there taking offensive action…only defensive if I remember correctly.
     Title of Liberty – A banner raised by Moroni, chief commander of the Nephite armies in the Book of Mormon. Moroni made the banner to inspire the Nephite people to defend their religion, freedom, peace, and families.
     Who is attacking our religion, freedom, peace, and families? Last time I checked…no one.
     And Helaman led into battle an army of two thousand young male warriors (two thousand stripling warriors) to defend their people when they were attacked, threatening their homes and families. I am not seeing anyone attacking our homes and families.
     If I am thinking right…”Joshua and David” were Jews not Christians.
     “… There is a time to kill, and a time to heal…” comes from Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible and became part of the Christian Old Testament. The OT doctrine is replaced by the words of Christ in the NT from what I understand. And I don’t remember Jesus uttering any words advocating for war. There is a God-given right to self-defense but I don’t remember any war in the last 80 years that anywhere resembling self-defense for the US. Actually, I am thinking Mathew 5:9 more than anything. Well, unless we are attacked here in the US. Our Founders thought the same thing…they didn’t want us fighting foreign wars or getting involved in entangling alliances.

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   • Just a thought for those of us who are LDS…

     “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 antienemy 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.)”

     President Spencer W. Kimball, June 1976

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