Comments for Caught between Truth and Error at http://www.ldsfreemen.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.ldsfreemen.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/charity-angel/caught-between-truth-and-error.html#comment-82 I appreciate the chance to know your thoughts on this fundamental issue, that of compulsion versus individual agency. At the risk of sounding jaded about our current opportunities to influence our system of government, the experiment of attempting to change it to eliminate it's userous confiscation of individual productive labor was run long ago when several states attempted to work inside the system to address these very issues. When it became evident that any and all peaceful efforts were in vain, they resorted to arms to attempt to protect their rights and this proved to be disasterous. I understand their cause and therefore their people weren't prepared to draw the Lord's support but they were, in general, God fearing people caught in oppression (while they practiced oppression themselves). History has been written by the victors to lead it's students to false conclusions about the nature of that struggle. Observing this I conclude that it will take the Lord to lead us to our freedoms when we are prepared and have done all we are able to clean our own hands and hearts. I believe this process is currently ongoing and this site is evidence of that. I pray for our people and that glorious future. I am grateful for those, like yourself, who desire and seek to make those righteous principles a reality. - least of these Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:25:04 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/charity-angel/caught-between-truth-and-error.html#comment-78 Least of these, I agree. We must submit to the bondage while we are in it. However, in our nation we can get involved, and change that government which no longer protects our God-Given rights. - Charity Angel Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:18:23 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/charity-angel/caught-between-truth-and-error.html#comment-77 I believe we are called by the Lord through those authorized to speak for him to remain subject until we aren't. This extends, in my thinking, to laboring in an unrighteous system untill the day when we are humbled and learn His precepts. There are numerous examples throughout the scriptures, particularly the Book of Mormon (the people of Alma), who, when they humbled themselves to their yoke and began to progress (learn) had those yokes made light untill they were free of the "foolish traditions of their fathers" (king Noah's society). I will continue to bear the yoke untill the Lord decides I no longer need it and pray that he will make it light. thanks for sharing your fine views. - least of these Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:11:00 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/charity-angel/caught-between-truth-and-error.html#comment-75 "Should Latter-day Saints support the welfare state as part of the Law of Consecration?" Absolutely, positively NOT!!! - ed42 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:34:11 +0100