Alma 44:5 - Liberty and Loyalty from Captain Moroni
I return again to my "gleaning" from recent scripture study. And now, Zerahemnah, I command you, in the name of that all-powerful God, who has strengthened our arms that we have gained power over you, by our faith, by our religion, and by our rites of worship, and by our church, and by the sacred support which we owe to our wives and our children, by that liberty which binds us to our lands and our country ; yea, and also by the maintenance of the sacred word of God, to which we owe all our happiness; and by all that is most dear unto us— ( Alma 44:5 ) It seems that Moroni, who speaks here, finds that liberty binds up to our lands and country. With the recent spate of immigration away from Syria and toward Western Europe, it is a principle that we see in our own day. Where there is little liberty, there is little loyalty. Again, It is liberty that binds us to our lands and our country . As social engineers formulate restrictions to individual, family, and group liberti...