Yahoo Bot wrote:According to the Fourth Book of Nephi and early Acts, the Lord's system of economics is communism. No private ownership. Perhaps Noam Chomsky had it right.
This is, to put it very mildly, absolute, utter, undiluted, and, it must be dispiritedly noted, at the end of the day, apostate pap. This is false doctrine, false teaching, and a false and deceptive representation of what both the scriptures and the Church actually teach and have taught. The Brethren have spoken repeatedly, over the course of the 20th century, not extensively, but clearly and distinctly, on this subject, and they have been unanimous, concerted, and unambiguous in their clarifications and teaching.
Communism (socialism, technically) is Satan's counterfeit system of human social and economic relations, reduced to the level of an almost pure barbarism in both its treatment of human beings and the kind of society that is generated and stimulated over time. As a matter of practical economic functioning and human relations, it cannot work, and as a matter of moral and ethical imperatives, it should never, ever, ever be allowed the chance.
If we as a people, and most certainly, some members of the Church, cannot at some point grow up intellectually beyond the illusions and romantic infatuation of utopian collectivism and the idolatry of ideology, America and the remainder of the West will end as free, open, liberal societies, and only the second advent of the Savior will be able to rectify what will then be the dawn of a dark age the likes of which this earth has never before seen crawling on its scaled belly on the stage of human history.