#LDS FREEDOM QUOTES FREE#

Today we celebrate the 230th anniversary of one of those great creations: the passage, in 1786, of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. The inscription, as he stipulated, reads “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.” McKay that the land in the Soviet Union belongs to the people and is not for sale.Thomas Jefferson wanted what he considered to be his three greatest achievements to be listed on his tombstone. McKay, kept on asking during our visit, ‘Isn't it at all possible to buy in the Soviet Union, at least five acres of land and begin preaching there our Mormonism?' Naturally we answered Mr. “The head of the church, its president Mr. Susan Oman, “East German Communists Welcome Mormon Temple,” Sunstone Review, November 1982, p. The Church is no threat to the government, and they know it's no threat.” I'm sure the government hopes that this will make members of the Church more satisfied to stay in the GDR.

“A temple would…be an ensign to the people that the government is not as repressive as the press indicates. John Heinerman and Anson Shule, The Mormon Corporate Empire, p. It had clearly caused a backlash, and a few days after its publication, 69.3 percent of Utah's votes went for Franklin D. One historian noted that over 1,200 Latter-day Saints canceled their subscriptions to the Deseret News because of the editorial. Many saw the conservative hand of the Church presidency in the editorial over seventy percent of the letters sent to the First Presidency office soon after its publication condemned the editorial. advocating communism,' among other things. Roosevelt of ‘knowingly promoting unconstitutional laws and. Grant (who detested the Democrats' New Deal policies) had another member of the Church's First Presidency write an unsigned editorial accusing Franklin D. During the 1936 presidential campaign, Church President Heber J. “Church attempts to influence Deseret News readers have sometimes backfired. Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference talk, October 1966 Should we counsel the people, ‘Just live your religion – there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.” They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism. “There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, Civil Rights: Tool of Communist Deception, 1968, p. “The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.” Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, as quoted in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, by D. “No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.” Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, April 1960, p.

Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.” People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist ‘has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. Clayton Brough, His Servants Speak, 1975, p. Latter-day Saints cannot be true to their faith and lend aid, encouragement, or sympathy to any of these false philosophies.

#LDS FREEDOM QUOTES FREE#

“Communism destroys man's God-given free agency. On the outcome of this conflict depends the future of mankind.” This conflict mirrors our age, its toils, its tensions, its troubles, and its tasks. Cleon Skousen, we find this quotation, (and I admonish everybody to read that excellent book of Chief Skousen's) : ‘the conflict between communism and freedom is the problem of our time. On the flyleaf of the book, The Naked Communist, by W. “Well, the era through which we are passing is no exception. Back to Mormon Quotes Index Prophet David O.

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