14\u00a0<\/span>And thus we see the great call of\u00a0diligence\u00a0of men to labor in the vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing\u2014sorrow because of death and destruction among men, and joy because of the\u00a0light of Christ\u00a0unto life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m struck by the sense in which the word inequality<\/em> is used in this passage.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Western society in our time is fixated on the idea of equality. \u00a0That\u2019s far from wrong, of course, in many ways. \u00a0There have been serious\u00a0and indefensible injustices suffered by many on account of differences in race, class,\u00a0economic resources, access to education, ethnicity, gender, and so forth, and they should be eliminated. \u00a0(For the record, I regard the term marriage equality<\/em> as a misuse of the concept, but that\u2019s another topic altogether.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
But inequalities in wealth, social status, education, skin color, and the like will disappear entirely in the world to come. \u00a0The only inequality that remains will be that of righteousness, as the Book of Mormon says here.<\/p>\n
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Hence, as the book of Alma says, the urgency of preaching the gospel of repentance.<\/p>\n
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The temple is a symbol and a foretaste of such inequality: \u00a0Inside the temple, socio-economic class is invisible. \u00a0Educational differences are erased. \u00a0All wear white. \u00a0All pass into the same celestial space by the same means.<\/p>\n
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