Isolated, self-sufficient LDS communities
Posted: November 10th, 2015, 10:04 am
I like the way the Colorado City Warren Jeffs compound functioned. EXCEPT, of course, for the child brides & polygamy & inter-marrying.
What I do like about it is the general lifestyle: waking early and having daily family devotionals centered around scripture study, hymns, and prayer. I like the way they don't allow toxic media into their lives. The children work & play outside (there's nothing wrong with child labor as long as it's healthy & meaningful & loving), everyone is daily focused on meaningful, life-sustaining activities like farming food for their own communities. Dollar amounts are never placed on produce because they all work to make it and preserve it and stock it, and families go to the "store" as needed to get as much produce as their family needs. The children are full of light & wholesomeness and are unjaded, and they've got healthy, rosy cheeks. Children are patiently homeschooled or locally schooled by teachers with the same beliefs & values as their family. Children have their mothers' love all day, every day.
Most importantly, I like the way an entire city adheres to this lifestyle. Because while any family can choose to raise their children with such vastly different values than the rest of society, it truly takes a village to raise a child, and for that village to all be on the same sheet of music is essential for success of individual families.
As a stark contrast with mainstream teens growing up sitting in front of the TV & computer, influenced by the media, vanity, commercialism, splintered & broken families.
For the LDS church to thrive, it needs to begin to address this and fortify its members from the toxins of the modern, industrialized, greedy, unhealthy society the USA has become.
When I read the Book of Mormon, I see how far removed our society has come from pure religion, and from Christ. The unspoken religion of mainstream USA is a religion that all of the Book of Mormon villians would agree with.
We need to depart, stand alone, and stand strong and thrive above the ills of society.
What do you think?
I suspect that the LDS Corporation has preferred to stay mainstream in order to keep drawing in tithes from members of all walks of life. If the LDS church were to go extreme and actually require members to live the Book of Mormon lifestyle, it would lose all its superficial, materialistic, worldly members, and lose their tithes as well.
What I do like about it is the general lifestyle: waking early and having daily family devotionals centered around scripture study, hymns, and prayer. I like the way they don't allow toxic media into their lives. The children work & play outside (there's nothing wrong with child labor as long as it's healthy & meaningful & loving), everyone is daily focused on meaningful, life-sustaining activities like farming food for their own communities. Dollar amounts are never placed on produce because they all work to make it and preserve it and stock it, and families go to the "store" as needed to get as much produce as their family needs. The children are full of light & wholesomeness and are unjaded, and they've got healthy, rosy cheeks. Children are patiently homeschooled or locally schooled by teachers with the same beliefs & values as their family. Children have their mothers' love all day, every day.
Most importantly, I like the way an entire city adheres to this lifestyle. Because while any family can choose to raise their children with such vastly different values than the rest of society, it truly takes a village to raise a child, and for that village to all be on the same sheet of music is essential for success of individual families.
As a stark contrast with mainstream teens growing up sitting in front of the TV & computer, influenced by the media, vanity, commercialism, splintered & broken families.
For the LDS church to thrive, it needs to begin to address this and fortify its members from the toxins of the modern, industrialized, greedy, unhealthy society the USA has become.
When I read the Book of Mormon, I see how far removed our society has come from pure religion, and from Christ. The unspoken religion of mainstream USA is a religion that all of the Book of Mormon villians would agree with.
We need to depart, stand alone, and stand strong and thrive above the ills of society.
What do you think?
I suspect that the LDS Corporation has preferred to stay mainstream in order to keep drawing in tithes from members of all walks of life. If the LDS church were to go extreme and actually require members to live the Book of Mormon lifestyle, it would lose all its superficial, materialistic, worldly members, and lose their tithes as well.