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President Obama promised to fundamentally change America. President Trump put the  world wide socialist movement in such a panic that they have shown their true colors by succumbing to anti-Trump mania and becoming a hate-filed mob. Promoters of rioting and looting are pretending to know that President Trump’s trips to visit damaged areas are being done to stir up more rioting. Those who thus foment unrest should be recognized as terrorists. The same goes for black leaders who advise blacks to resist arrest and run from the police.

Church attendance had been losing ground while biblical morals and family values were also diminishing. Left wingers and fascists (globalists) saw in covid19 an opportunity to pile on to the influences changing our culture. They forced the issue by shutting down social gatherings, businesses, churches, and schools on a nearly world-wide basis.. Many are wondering if the shutdown Is causing more suffering and death than the pandemic. Covid19 is not the only pandemic in recent history nor is it the worst.

The pandemic came at a time when the radical atheist priorities of the left had Christians at a disadvantage even in America. There was widespread fear of saying anything political in a church meeting for fear the IRS would take away our church’s tax exempt status. Bakers who refused to decorate cakes with messages promoting gay marriage were sued. If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016 instead of Trump we would have grown much closer to a socialist state instead of becoming great again. Now covid19 has cost us a lot of ground and speculation about what some governors may yet do to interfere with our ability to live our religion and worship together is a serious concern. There is a rising amount of evidence that covid19 statistics are being exaggerated and even testimonies that a well known cure is being withheld.

Many of our churches are lowering their standards of behavior. The L.D.S. Church has a history of covering up its failures and false doctrine. The reason I continue to stand by my  L.D.S. leaders is because the Lord promised to one day heal them and convert them. They will have to confess their sins and the sins of their fathers before that happens. They will have to stop dishonoring the partaking of the emblems of the sacrament by remembering what third Nephi and the D&C says about not partaking before being baptized and taught the basics of our religion.

Our leaders and scholars are not troubled about quoting items in our history which accuse Joseph Smith of having extra wives. I am troubled by their failure to quote Joseph’s denial of having extra earthly wives. He acknowledges having extra wives sealed to him for the celestial kingdom, but not for his mortal lifetime. The Book of Mormon tells of people in times past and in modern times seeking political power in order to more easily commit adultery. The Lord told the saints that He would give them anything that they asked for which was expedient for them, but if they asked for anything which was not expedient for them it would turn to their condemnation. Do we really believe that though the Book of Mormon declares the having of extra wives as an abomination and a whoredom, it was acceptable for Joseph Smith to have extra wives? Adultery is still adultery whether committed by a crooked politician or a prophet of the Lord. It has not been explained to my satisfaction how it can be an abomination for mortal men to have extra wives, but okay for celestial beings.

Many Christians don’t understand the nature of heaven, so it should be no surprise that the socialist promoters of equality also get it wrong when they attempt to create a heaven on earth for us as some communists and socialists do. The Declaration of Independence, in defining our freedom/equality, declare  the pursuit of happiness as an endowment from our creator. Notice it reads, “the pursuit of happiness”, not the necessity of having happiness defined by a tyrant. Though the Bible speaks of equal heavenly rewards for those who labor for the Lord, it does not limit our heavenly existence to those things of which we all receive equally. In other words there is more to heaven than singing praises to God while we are equally cared for. They miss those verses which describe our earthly existence as a place where we have the opportunity to serve our heavenly Lord in order to provide Him with the criteria for assigning us responsibilities when we obtain heaven; responsibilities which will define our differences, and our glory.

Our governor and legislators preside over a culture of corruption which is so deeply imbedded in every facet of our economy and has been for so many years, that the political party with the most successful crooks has become the dominant party. In California, Republicans have become scarce and honest politicians of any party even scarcer. Covid19 is providing tyrants with opportunities to speak out in favor of prolonging the shutdown in order to increase the suffering and prolong the power of the anti-religious over our ability to worship together. I have heard some boasts that last years changing of meeting schedules was inspired in order to prepare us for the changes required by the covid19 shutdowns. I can’t help but wonder if the enemies of our freedom would have been so bold if we had been more true to our faith.