Posted by rayww on February 16, 2005, at 0:25:04
In reply to Re: Clear something up for me? » rayww, posted by AuntieMel on February 15, 2005, at 15:17:29
Love is love AuntieMel! I assume everyone is born to love, and hope we all discover how. To love is a gift. Where does love come from? Why can we feel it one day and not another? I choose to equate love with God. God is love. God and love go together like scripture and prayer. Actually I added the word "God" after I wrote the other post, so I had the same thought at first as you, that love based government doesn't have to be love of God based.
I will try to explain why I added it. Love based government is mirrored or begins at home. Father is the head, mother is the heart, Children are the reason, and extended family is the support.
Mother honors Father as Father honors God. The children are the subjects and the reason for governance.
If Father strays from God's guidance, then mother doesn't have to follow father's leadership. With no confidence in the management, everyone is free to do their own thing with no accountabilty to anyone.If the majority of the people practiced righteous governance at home, love based government could not be restrained.
Love is universal to all cultures and the only thing with power to break down barriors that divide us. A King Benjamin type leader http://scriptures.lds.org/mosiah/2
is one who actually loves and serves the people he governs. He's the guy with the barbecue giving out free hamburgers, or the one out picking up garbage on his day off. He hangs out at the homeless shelter passing out $20.00 bills.King Benjamin's example of love based government: “What really lifts him to [the level of the world’s greatest men] is the moral grandeur of his life. He lived solely for the good of his people. He is the first instance in the history of Christendom of a ruler who put aside every personal aim or ambition to devote himself wholly to the welfare of those whom he ruled.”
Bob moved this from faith, but it is still a faith topic. Politics should be a faith topic too. I wish political leaders all governed by faith, as in the early days with our founding fathers. I recently heard of an 1830 dictionary. you would be amazed at how much we have removed the word, "God" from everything, including our basic meanings of life. The name "God" was freely used in writing back then, but today as soon as it is mentioned, someone somewhere tries to shut it out. He lives and loves.
I'm not trying to convince you AuntiMel. Everyone has freedom to believe what they wish. God and love go together. Scriptures and prayer go together, but truth and belief have a difficult time meeting.
More on minorities:
Environmentalists seal land off against all development because they want it to remain natural, so why can't farmers seal land off for agriculture? Agriculturalists are being condemned for destroying natural habitat, but cities are allowed to push it all aside as they press deeper and deeper into the wilderness. Hey, I'm a country kid, I don't know the city talk.
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