I'm reading an interesting book entitled "Liberalism, Conservatism, and Mormonism" by Hyrum Andrus, who used to be a Professor of Modern Scriptures at BYU. From the introduction:
No man-made philosophy or school of thought is completely compatible with the gospel of Jesus Christ and its divine program for the spiritual and temporal well-being of man. This is true for both modern liberalism and modern conservatism. They are both deficient in certain respects when measured by the divine plan that has been revealed by the Lord.
More to come...
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
I would have to agree with this. I'd expand further, but I'm going to bed now.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
From the "About CATO" page on the CATO Institute's web site: ..."liberal" may well be the perfect word in most of the world--the liberals in societies from China to Iran to South Africa to Argentina are supporters of human rights and free markets--but its meaning has clearly been corrupted by contemporary American liberals.
In comtemporary American politics, the word "liberal" has become inseperably associated with the Democratic Party, and is used almost as an epithet by conservatives.
Here's an interesting perpsective on LDS liberals from Hyrum Andrus:
- True LDS liberals recognize dependency on Christ. Through Christ, we will establish peace and social union and justice upon the earth. By contrast, false liberals believe essentially that man can bring about the millenium.
- True LDS liberals still espouse the ideal of human freedom, an ideal from which false liberalism has departed in an effort to socialize the state.
- True LDS liberals seek for the cause of Zion and work for that ideal against the ignorance of the world and the sophistication of those who falsely call themselves liberals.
- True LDS liberals believe that Zion must achieve economic independence above all other systems beneath the Celestial Kingdom. Other liberals would have the Saints swallowed up in the leviathan state, where they would lose their identity and distinctiveness as a people and fail to meet their God-given responsibility of pointing out the way of temporal salvation for men.
From "Liberalism, Consevatism, and Mormonism" p 89-90.
Your thoughts?
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
If the mainstream media ever affords us the opportunity, it should be interesting to note which of the presidential hopefuls has in the past actually demonstrated the closest conformance to "the divine plan revealed by the Lord" while campaigning for or acting in elected political office.
Hmm.... I don't have any thoughts yet, I guess, without reading his description of "true conservatives"... I'm picking up the book tonight from the library.
Do you know why he "used to" be a professor at BYU? That phrase is popping up more it seems...
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
All I got's to say is what has often been misattributed to Winston Churchill as saying "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
In other words, I agree that no man made political or intellectual philosophy encompasses the fullness of truth and correct behavior that is found within the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
