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In today’s reading, Mosiah 6, we learn that King Mosiah II himself worked as a farmer.
Which suggests that the Nephite society of this period in the Book of Mormon — corresponding to the Pre-Classic era — was quite different from the grandiosity of the largely Classic and Post-Classic ruins that dot Mesoamerica today. It was a relatively humble and modest affair. The vast Pre-Columbian temples that we often see in photographs and on tours, with their sculpted gods and obvious idolatry, are the products of apostate societies, not of a society in which, as the Book of Mormon exhorts its readers to do, people dressed and lived simply.
Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho
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