SENATOR MIKE LEE IN DEEP STINKY WITH THE LDS CHURCH?

When I booted up my antiquated HP desktop the other day (still working after all these years... Oh, still working after all these years), I found the following piece on my MSN.com home page condemning Senator Mike Lee for comments he made regarding the shooting of a Minnesota politician not long ago, and suggesting that, as a consequence, he's in hot water with the LDS Church he belongs to:

'Church isn't far-right': Utah Republican's [Senator Mike Lee's] moves a 'problem' for his religion

I posted the following in the comments section of the article:

I am an active member of the LDS Church and was not in the least degree offended by Lee's remarks - and, notwithstanding the rumormongering noted in this article, I venture to guess that the LDS leadership - given their great desire to appear apolitical - and notwithstanding there most certainly - and inexplicably - being split-personality Democrats among them - will, when push comes to shove, have no comment on the matter.

There will always be those who squeal in protest when a spade is called a spade - when the truth is spoken - which is exactly what Senator Lee did with his supposedly "insensitive" comments about the recent shooting of a Democrat politician in Minnesota.

"The guilty take the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center", as one Book of Mormon prophet observed (I Nephi 16:1-3).

All one need do to put Lee's comments in the correct perspective is stand back and ask, from which side of the political spectrum - the right or the left - come the rising lawlessness, violence and attacks on our civil society? Is it coming from the Trump Administration? Trump supporters? MAGA? America First?

These are rhetorical questions.

Every honest person with a few firing synapses knows the answers, which are plainly manifest before our eyes with every passing day. The intellectually, morally and spiritually corrupt element in our society and their political expression, the Democrat Party - who recently called for "blood" in the streets - are America's seditious, treasonous, insurrectionist Fifth Column - the Enemy Within.

Wake up, America!

Let me add here that I vigorously disagree with the assertion in the article’s title that the LDS Church "isn't far right".

If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't "far right", it has, in my opinion, failed to live up to the divine calling God gave it when, via the prophetic instrumentality of the hayseed and bumpkin Joseph Smith, he raised the church up out of obscurity and nothingness, endowing it by means of glorious visitations and manifestations of divine power witnessed by many, empowering it with priesthood authority delivered by angelic messengers from heaven, showering it with modern-day revelation to provide new understanding of what came before and lighting the path forward in preparation for the glorious return of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.

IMHO, though the LDS leadership may do their very best to lay low, depicting themselves as apolitical and the church as innocuously middle of the road and non-partisan - hoping, I suspect, to delay the inevitable as long as possible - that inevitability being the necessity of having to pay the price an evil world has always throughout history exacted and sooner or later will inexorably again exact from those who embrace God's righteousness - there exists under heaven no more "far right" religious organization than The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Though the leadership are loathe to admit it - understandably seeking to quell political conflict among the membership and hoping to avoid prematurely painting a target on the church's back - virtually every plank in the leftist Democrat platform - every point, every value, every dark principle in the evil, lawless, seditious, traitorous, Democrat agenda - is an offense and affront to the doctrines, values and principles of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed from heaven, embraced and taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• (This calls to mind a letters-to-the-editor comment in the Salt Lake Tribune I saw years ago asking, since the policies of the Democrat Party are so compassionate and “Christian”, why aren’t there more Democrats in the leadership of the LDS Church? I responded with my own letter - which, to their credit, the liberal Trib printed - asking, since the doctrines, principles, values and agenda of the Democrat Party are a repudiation of and gross offense to sound Christian doctrine, why are there ANY Democrats at all among the LDS leadership?)

With time running short, again IMHO, the right approach in the church is not to attempt to quiet political contention among the membership by encouraging them to "find something good" in both political parties. Instead, we ought to be refining our spiritual power and insight, via the Holy Spirit, to judge between good and evil, right and wrong (as President Nelson observed, otherwise, we will not survive spiritually) and stand up for what is God's right. Be done with the mealy-mouthed watering down and compromise of God's doctrine and instead double down on calling a spade a spade, courageously calling good good and evil evil, and being prepared to pay the price for doing so.

In doing this, we will certainly move closer to the day spoken of in LDS scripture (D&C 63:54) when there "cometh a complete separation of the righteous from the wicked". When that day comes, we, individually and collectively as a church, do not want to be on the wrong side of that separation as many who claim to be members of the church will be (see D&C 112:24-25). Looking for something good in Satan's lying work, compromising or double-talking on our definitions of good and evil, will not work in our favor as we approach that dreadful day.

In the dire circumstances of our time, when everything precious, all that we hold dear is under sustained satanic attack - that suggestion - find something good in both political parties and hold your peace - again IMHO, is akin to suggesting there must be something good about the Devil and we should do our best to look for it so as to preserve the peace. Paraphrasing the late great Benjamin Franklin:

"Those who would give up essential liberty [truth] to purchase a little temporary safety [peace] deserve neither liberty [truth] nor safety [peace]."

While I believe it is absolutely unassailably true and defensible based on the facts in evidence, some will certainly consider this view extreme. When it comes to the Democrat Party - what I believe - again IMHO - to be a satanically coopted and empowered force for evil in America - a dark power mounting a determined assault on our divinely inspired Constitution, the rule of law, the peace, safety and sovereign viability of the nation, and virtually every single Judeo/Christian principle our great nation was founded upon - this admonition - to look for something good in both parties - I believe misdirects what should be our correct focus - the inerrant guidance of the Holy Spirit - and is an insult to intellectual, moral and spiritual integrity and intelligence.

Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, liberty vs. tyranny, patriotism vs. treason, prosperity vs. penury, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless…

You choose…

Torquemada