Moroni 7:4

It is interesting to see and think about things after they happen with one of them being the recent US election.  I had many people, on both sides of the republican/democratic/independent line, tell me why their party was better or their guy was better than the other in this last election, which may or may not be surprising considering I live in practically 100% republican territory, Utah. 

One thing they talked to me about and me to them was foreign policy.  These conversations also happened with many LDS members.  What is interesting about Mormons and foreign policy is that they can tell you almost unequivocally why people in the Book of Mormon would lose battles or wars against the other people…aggressive warfare that wasn’t sanctioned by God (through his prophet).  However while they hold this knowledge to be true and when exercised would ensure self-destruction or the destruction of God they simultaneously believe that the wars the western powers that be, including the USA, are righteous and good.  How is this possible?  Cognitive Dissonance.

Stick with your gut and walk the way the Lord would have you and don’t listen to Robert Frost.  Moroni 7:4 states to the remant of the Lamanite people AND the gentiles (USA), “Know ye that ye must lay down your weapons of war, and delight no more in the shedding of blood, and take them not again, save it be that God shall ^acommand you.”  If you’re wondering what a country’s foreign policy should be, just listen to the Lord’s mouthpiece.  Can you go wrong with that?

On a side note, can my LDS readers tell me the last time the Lord told us officially through his mouthpiece that He sanctioned a certain war, civil or otherwise, in another country at any time???  I will buy them a king sized candy bar if they can.  If not…were those wars that we as a country/society should’ve fought in?  I think you know the answer to that.  People, Mormons included, would probably say that the Civil War was needed to free the slaves.  Really?  Where were the Mormons when that happened?  The question could be asked, “Did the Lord sanction anyone’s involvement through his prophet…WW1?  WW2?  Korea?  Vietnam?  Iraq/Afghanistan?”

If you wonder what a good litmus test would be for a political party you should support or not is whether or not that party supported a war that wasn’t sanctioned by God.  If not sanctioned, but one party or another went to war, probably not the best idea to vote for and support that party.  Just a thought.

By the way you can buy anything in this world with money.  Perhaps my LDS readers know the threat made by Satan in the temple.  If so is it possible that Satan can buy armies and navies today?  If so, what would be the best way to do so?  Perhaps a private central bank?  If you wanted control and power would that be the way to go?  The following quotes will answer that for us.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
- (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (23 February 1744 – 19 September 1812) was a German banker and the founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty that became the most successful business family in history. In 2005, he was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of all Time". The magazine referred to him as a "founding father of international finance”)

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

–        Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

So here I’ve got a past president and super/mega/uber rich international banker who both say the real powers that be are those who control the money supply.  How do you then stop unsanctioned wars and bloodshed if it takes money supply to do so, or perhaps the lack thereof, both of which you can’t ultimately control?  You don’t.  We do.  As…INDIVIDUALS!  We stop electing with our votes and our dollars and self-imposed debt that we really do want in the form of student loans, mortgages, and consumer debt for crap we don’t need.  Then you vote with competing currencies that aren’t controlled by those “financial element(s) in the large centers”.  Those “currencies” may be food, water, guns, ammo, precious metals, and just good commodities in general.

            Good luck!