This is a test for fun and plus it might have relevance to a future post:
If you are male, please state who ordained you to the priesthood. No fair peeking at your lineage. Relationships (i.e. Dad, Bishop, Stake President) are fine answers since I don’t really care about the name. If you don’t remember, go ahead and admit you don’t remember.
Rand Paul is correct. You do not have a right to health care. Anybody who thinks he or she has a right to health care does not understand how natural law and natural rights work in a free republic.
Anybody who thinks he or she has a right to health care must also explain why everybody doesn’t have a “right” to a new Mercedes or a new boat.
Anybody who thinks he or she has a right to health care must explain how he or she is going to pursue that “right.” Can you force somebody else to provide health care for you? Can you go to your neighbor’s house and steal money from them to pay for your new found “right?”
The laws of natural law and natural rights are very clear, and have been since the 17th century.
I’ve posted on my personal blog lesson 21 of the New Testament Gospel Doctrine class.
It discusses Matthew 24 on the signs of the times. I go in depth on the Abomination of Desolation, sharing quotes from Josephus regarding the 70AD siege on Jerusalem that ended up killing over one million Jews. It is not a story for the faint-hearted, as it contains mobs, rape, murder, suicide, and even cannibalism!
Read it there, and comment on it here!
http://joelsmonastery.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-testament-gospel-doctrine-lesson-21.html
One day I was visiting “Grammie’s” house with the kids for a family dinner. I decided to bring a video tape of a cartoon to watch with the kids there.
At one critical point in the story, there is this teenaged boy that is getting chased down by an unmanned tractors with harvesting blades on the front. The tractor seems to have a mind of it’s own. The kid stumbles and the blades start to hit him on the back. He screams in pain.
At this point, you’re probably all wondering why I was playing an animated Maximum Overdrive for the little ones. But as it turns out, the blades only cut through the boy’s shirt. There is not an ounce of blood whatsoever; in fact, there isn’t even a scratch on his back.
One of the mothers see this and starts to laugh. “That’s soooo ridiculous! That’s pathetic!”
I turned and grinned at her. “That boy… his name is Clark Kent.”
At that moment, the boy turns around and rips the tractor apart with his bare hands.
“Oh, never mind,” she said, and she wandered away satisfied with my explanation.
I am convinced this story says something profound about both human nature and about life; if only I could figure out what it was. Your interpretations are welcome.
Looks like Mormons would do well in space. A series of articles being done on various religions and how they would fare in space and handling Martians and other aliens that invade our solar system (would they be illegal aliens?).
With our views of Kolob, materialism/spiritualism, and God creating new life and planets continually, it makes for a comfortable view of the universe for most Mormons. Yes, Joseph Fielding Smith did not believe we should have anything to do with space, but I believe most of us today think it is generally a good thing.