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Evil deeds cause depression and captivity

Letter to the editor;

The Bible and the Book of Mormon both testify to us that the key to peace, prosperity and freedom is to obey the Commandments of the Lord.

You can check this out: When a critical mass of the people of any nation fall away from the morality of their ancestors, the innocent suffer with the guilty and the whole population falls into wars, depression and bad government. This is history.

We are taught that the way out of these bad situations is to take government handouts, create our own version of morality, invest correctly and vote for the lesser of two evils.

WRONG-O! The correct answer starts out, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy might and with all thy mind.

It includes Honor thy father and thy mother.

It goes on to list things NOT to do: Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s. There are more. You can look them up.

And it’s not enough to slavishly follow these Commandments. We have to have the right attitude about it.

The connection between morality and prosperity are not immediately apparent to the atheistic mind. The modern, politically-correct, sophisticated, college-educated mind is likely to scoff at this as antiquated, superstitious and simplistic.

However, it follows from “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
(Notice that it doesn’t say, “In the beginning, the self-existent elements sort of fell together at random and the earth and its atmosphere were the accidental results”.)

(However, if you want to take it from the atheistic perspective, you can still make the connection between morality and prosperity. It’s there, and it’s real.)

We are not going to get out from under this by electing magical politicians who can create wealth out of thin air. We should work, pray, be thrifty, read the Scriptures, take care of our families, grow gardens, sing hymns, patch our clothes and help our neighbors.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona