rcrocket wrote:During the 1950s and the 1960s, a few the Brethren sort of mushed Stalinism and communism together, and communitarianism and the United Order/law of consecration together, to make distinguishments which really were real world observations rather than observations about how the economic systems were intended to work. (I.e., the "United Order yields to God" versus "communism is atheistic and godless.)
It was probably during this time than an obsession with right-wing politics flourished. We wanted to be seen as American. Now that the Church is an international one, American right-wing politics as a way of being for Mormons is definitely detrimental. How can we preach the Gospel to the world if we are politically provincial and exclusionary?