Between Anger and Complacency: 2 Nephi 28
I know: we're reading the New Testament. I'm such a throwback. I survived the Isaiah chapters only to run straight into this piece of prophecy about the latter days. I'm struggling as I map our current political schism onto the descriptions I read in this chapter partly because I'm reluctant to reverse my thinking about principles that I value strongly, and partly because I think reading it at too material a level is a trap. The Book of Mormon isn't known for its traps, but human thinking is. If we saunter quickly past the verses about pandering churches and religious contention, and some really really important points about wealth and pride, we come to verse sixteen: "Wo unto them that turn aside the just for a thing of naught and revile against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth!" And what I hear is, "wo unto them that get it wrong." There's no overt accusation that people are doing this on purpose - that they (we?) ...