MASS EXODUS FROM MORMONISM?

I think we are already seeing this on so many levels - precisely as an outgrowth of political correctness.  I have had to go toe to toe with so many people over the evils of that movement.  I can no longer speak and say things simply as they are; even with supposedly "upstanding" members of the Church.  Truly Babylon inhabits the deepest recesses of most hearts.  The solution?  Massive destruction - so that, even if by the things that we must suffer, people will be brought low.  When they are low, all things will be put in proper perspective.  The division and the "test" that has been spoken of so much is here.  Soon, there will be troops in Utah attempting to force the people to go one way or the other.  Some what have made the wrong choice, will perish with the armies of the wicked.  This will be analgous to what will be happening over in Jerusalem as the armies of the earth surround that people.

Political commentator predicts “mass exodus” from Mormonism

March 25, 2014 By Dan Peterson 43 Comments

Like the building that Lehi saw in 1 Nephi 8?

Damon Linker, who is not a Latter-day Saint but who briefly taught political philosophy at Brigham Young University a number of years ago, predicts that the Catholics and the Mormons will hemorrhage large portions of their membership in the coming years, and particularly their younger membership, over issues relating to gender such as the ordination of women and same-sex “marriage”:

http://theweek.com/article/index/258520/why-churches-should-brace-for-a-mass-exodus-of-the-faithful

Sadly, I think he may be correct.  I’ve known some who have already left over these matters.

I can understand why.  Surely, our impulses to be kind and loving and fair, and to treat others with respect and with equal justice, are fundamentally sound.  They have solid scriptural warrant, too.  And these impulses sometimes seem to clash with specific practices and doctrines that are also claimed to be divine commands or to be based upon revelation.

Of course, from my point of view I see those who forsake the Gospel, the Church, and their covenants over such matters as, in the end, having chosen the ideologies of the world over God, and as a fulfillment of scriptural prophecies about the deception and apostasy, in the last days, of even “the very elect” (e.g., at Matthew 24:24).  As the prophet Nephi said, in 2  Nephi 28:14, “they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men.”  Rather like trading one’s birthright for a bowl of lentil stew.

I feel compassion and understanding for them.  But I’m still deeply saddened, and I regret their choice.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell was fond of a quotation from the eighteenth-century English clergyman William Law:  ”If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first,” Law said, “it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”

The responsibility rests upon those who remain faithful to try to find ways, within the constraints of obedience to what we sincerely believe to be revelation and prophetic guidance, to help those tempted to abandon their faith and to go as far as we can to meet their concerns without surrendering our own principles.  It won’t be easy.  But it’s imperative.

Here is the seed of this alliance that quickly will blossom.  This was predicted on this blog years ago (based on the compilation of many sayings that have been gathered - and will ye still deny it??):

       http://scgnews.com/russia-and-china-announce-joint-naval-drills-as-nato-declares-russia-an-enemy