Do you believe in destiny? Manifest destiny?
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America, Mormon Belief, Mormon Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
God Bless America: Weekend Poll
America, Mormon Belief, Mormon Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Do you believe in destiny? Manifest destiny?
[poll id=”142″]
Discuss.
Wheat & Tares 
America sits on an exceptional basket of raw materials, this and a capitalist economy positioned it well for the industrial revolution resulting in the greatest economy and most powerful military in the world. If we don’t have it we can take it by force.
I’ve gone back and forth on this in my own mind over the years. There’s a New Testament scripture that talks about parts of the body having need of each other, which I often used to proclaim “unexceptionalism” in my younger days, until a chem professor pointed out that you really can get along without your foot a lot better than you can get along without your head. In fact, you can get along without your appendix perfectly well.
Nations and regions that matter more than most change over time. I used to have a computer game that allowed you to take real nations using the CIA fact book as a data base and try to guide their future. I liked to pick nations to play at random, and I discovered it was fairly easy to get Iceland to prosper, until some nut in Europe would try building a financial empire. Then it didn’t much matter what I did.
America matters exceptionally in today’s world. Other nations have had their times, and still other nations will have theirs. And, hopefully, God is guiding them all for a purpose that’s best for all of them.
I tend to believe the Book of Mormon and D&C, both of which testify to America’s greatness; and, as long as the people are righteous it will remain the promised (Gods) land.
With the last election, I think we are seeing the downfall of the US, which will transform the US into just another nation. This will pave the way to the last and final battle, which could not happen if the world has one nation that could single handily defeat the rest of the world. How long this will take is the unknown.
America has been and is a promised land for some people, but not for all. In early days of the church members where gathered together. It was a gathering to a temple (Kirtland, Nauvoo, Missouri – although that temple was never build, Utah). Now temples plot the world and members can stay in their stakes.
America is not special for me.