-The Book of Mormon describes two civilizations in two different time periods becoming possessed with hatred and obsessed with weapons, death, and killing, ultimately resulting in genocide in one case, and mutual destruction in the other.
-Freud talks about a Death Drive, the instinct to kill and destroy.
-The Book of Mormon talks about the natural man (sometimes called the carnal man), in opposition to the divine within.
-The Book of Mormon also proposes that its detailed accounts of wanton hatred and violence are included to be instructive to people of our era.
-The Bible and Book of Mormon repeatedly talk about beating swords into ploughshares.
-At it’s darkest, I see our society as one obsessed (in its fantasy world (media), its preaching and pronouncements, its politics) with violence and death. I see an ever accelerating addiction to button-actuated weapons, essentially killing with remote controls.
-The completely unreasoned, bizarre, drunken resistance to any kind of limitations on remote killing devices can only be explained with the Death Drive, or the natural man, coupled with the Mahan principle, also of ancient origin, described by Hugh Nibley as the ease with which one can “get gain” by exploiting human suffering and death.
No comments:
Post a Comment