Sodom and
Gomorrah Bruce R. McConkie
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the earth was cleansed once by water, so it shall be cleansed a second
time by fire. What was it in Noah's day that caused such an outpouring
of evil to cover the earth? Note it and note it well: it was their marriage
discipline, their disregard of proper family relations, their gluttony
and their drunkenness-- all of which led to wars and carnality and corruption.
Men were marrying out of the Church because they preferred a lewd and
lascivious way of life rather than the one decreed in proper matrimony
. . . Is it any different today? Never in the entire history of the
world has there ever been such an assault on the family unit as there
is now. In some nations women work and the state rears their children.
Under the cloak of supposed equal rights, college dormitories and athletic
shower rooms are opened to male and female students alike. Women are
handed rifles and taught the ways of war, and they are employed alongside
men in drudgery and labor that destroys feminine sensitivities. Male
homosexuals marry each other. Millions of couples live together in sin.
Death-dealing abortions have legal approval. Courses given in public
schools encourage and approve immoral practices. Prostitution is legal
in some jurisdictions. All this and all else prevailing in our social
structure make us wonder how much worse things must become before the
burning fires of destruction shall cover the earth. (Bruce R. McConkie, Millennial Messiah, pp. 360-361) |
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