Moroni 9
This chapter makes me so sad. Moroni's father, Mormon, sends Moroni a heart-wrenching account of the Nephites. They are wicked – even more so than the Lamanites. The entire population is fighting against each other and not just killing, but torturing, killing and then eating each other as a token of their bravery! I can't imagine such wickedness and it is beyond my ability to understand.
And then I watch the news. Is it really all that hard to imagine? Warren Jeffs was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison yesterday. Just a few of his heinous crimes were accounted on television. What a wicked and perverted man. What is even more amazing to me is how there were others who were with him in his perverted and twisted ways. That he was taking eight-year-old little girls and preparing them for awful acts of depravity in the baptismal fonts of their church just blows my mind! So are the depravities of the Nephites such a big leap? I think not. Just as cancer spreads quickly throughout the body, so too does a polluted mind infect the minds of those who associate with it. This is why it is so important to keep ourselves rooted firmly in the gospel by daily studying the scriptures, praying and striving in every way to follow the guidance given by our prophets and leaders. But this is not all. We must always choose to be around influences of righteousness. Touch not the polluted and perverse things of the world.
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