In today’s reading, Alma 4, we’re reminded that, at bottom, many of the most fundamental social, political, and economic problems are actually spiritual problems.
Or, to put it another way, politics and government policy — important though they are — aren’t basic. Sometimes, the culture itself is sick and needs to be fixed.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” John Adams remarked, concerning the American polity. “It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
In this chapter, Alma, who is both the chief judge of the Nephites and the head of the Nephite church, plainly sees the same truth. He resigns from the former position, amid enormous problems facing his people, in order to concentrate on the latter calling.
Posted from Mesa, Arizona
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