Dear America... Ive heard it said that the World Wars were fought so that people could have the freedom to do as they please. And yet, their choices are not pleasing overall. It pleases them to defy any authority but that which threatens them. It pleases them to grow up ignorant, of their letters, their numbers, their history, thus depriving themselves of a future. Did our forefathers establish this country, have our citizens freely fought and died for a free world, that the true meaning of freedom could be casually dismissed, like words written in sand below the tide level on a beach? Let us make houses and housing homes again. Let parents assume again the responsibilities which fall to them by natural right, as the originating factors in the lives of those whom they bring into this world. Let us teach, and abide by, correct principles so that each may govern themselves (paraphrased Joseph Smith, Jr.). In this time of advanced science and medicine, let us also strive to be civilized. “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.” ― Thomas More, Utopia
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:00:01 +0000