| BlueK |
04-21-2015 09:25 PM |
I feel bad for those who can't see that Libertarianism is the only true political view endorsed by God.
Seriously though, members who elevate their political ideas to the level of the Gospel are usually extremely annoying and hard for me to tolerate sometimes. Of course it depends on how nice they are. In my experience though, they're often jerks.
An example from my BYU experience: I took freshman Book of Mormon from Reed Benson, the son of Ezra Taft Benson. He was the most egregious example of mixing politics and LDS beliefs I have ever seen. Yet, in his case he really was a very nice, sincere man as far as I could tell. Still, I kid you not, I literally felt the Spirit enter and leave the room in that class based directly on what topic he was addressing at the time. So he's reading from the scriptures and talking about establishing faith in Christ? Spirit there! Five minutes later switches to talk about how the flat tax is the only way to tax us that God accepts because we all pay the same 10% rate on tithing, so that's how the government needs to do it to be in line with the Lord? Spirit hightails it out of there! Five minutes later back to faith? Spirit runs back in! It didn't matter even if I agreed with his political opinion, it was the same thing. It kind of made an impression on me as a young freshman as to what the Lord really seemed to care about, and worldly politics wasn't it. At least what he sent his Spirit into the room to testify about was what was in the scripures. Other than that, he apparently wasn't going to give me his opinion or endorse the teacher's political views.
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