Today’s reading, Alma 25, illustrates — as if more examples were needed — how the cycles of conversion and apostasy, rise and fall, war and peace never come to a stop.
It’s valuable for its depiction, too, of how the bitter hatred felt by the Amulonites eventually destroyed them. This is virtually inevitable, in the long run. Hatred will either so bring down external hostility or it will destroy the hater internally, psychologically, and spiritually.
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