spiritual<\/em>\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Or, to put it another way, politics and government policy \u2014 important though they are \u2014 aren\u2019t basic. \u00a0Sometimes, the culture itself is sick and needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,\u201d John Adams remarked, concerning the American polity. \u201cIt is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\u201d<\/p>\n
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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. \u00a0He resigns from the former position, amid enormous problems facing his people, in order to concentrate on the latter calling.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 In today\u2019s reading,\u00a0Alma 4, we\u2019re reminded that, at bottom, many of the most fundamental social, political, and economic problems are actually\u00a0spiritual\u00a0problems. \u00a0 Or, to put it another way, politics and government policy \u2014 important though they are \u2014 aren\u2019t basic. \u00a0Sometimes, the culture itself is sick and needs to be fixed. \u00a0 \u201cOur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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