tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post8845493471337045399..comments2022-11-04T09:58:53.818-04:00Comments on Warfare and the Book of Mormon: What are you doing?Morgan Deanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-10816753420424300762011-08-20T12:51:39.003-04:002011-08-20T12:51:39.003-04:00Thanks for the comments wage slave. There are sev...Thanks for the comments wage slave. There are several places in the BoM that explicitly endorse warfare "even unto bloodshed". I would be extremely careful about reading what we want into selected verses of scripture. We also need to understand the society in which the BoM was written in order to better apply its message for today.Morgan Deanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-66470859054694422052011-08-19T23:22:03.647-04:002011-08-19T23:22:03.647-04:00The Book of Mormon taught me much about the morali...The Book of Mormon taught me much about the morality of warfare:<br /><br />Ether 8:19. For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in ALL THINGS hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.<br /><br />3 Nephi 12:21-22 Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, and it is also written before you, that thou shalt not kill, wage slavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793388813493777573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-89415733290535852962011-08-09T06:49:04.661-04:002011-08-09T06:49:04.661-04:00Incidentally, for the South, it wasn't about s...Incidentally, for the South, it wasn't about slavery. The South didn't care about having slaves or not, economically, they needed that workforce otherwise the economics of it all would be thrown off. The south didn't necessarily want to enslave thousands of blacks and keep them enslaved, they just wanted their nice setup they had going. <br /><br />The north didn't have Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09835566568154649877noreply@blogger.com