{"id":35823,"date":"2016-08-11T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35823"},"modified":"2016-08-11T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T00:07:06","slug":"bom-alma-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/bom-alma-59.html","title":{"rendered":"BOM Alma 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35824\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Washington_and_Lafayette_at_Valley_Forge.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35824\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35824\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Washington_and_Lafayette_at_Valley_Forge.jpg\" alt=\"Dunsmore, Washington, and Lafayette\" width=\"595\" height=\"472\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge<br>(John Ward Dunsmore, Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/bofm\/alma\/59?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alma 59<\/a>, Moroni begins to realize that there is a serious problem with supplies and support that must, necessarily, originate with the central government back in Zarahemla.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cAnd it came to pass that Moroni was angry with the government, because of their\u00a0indifference\u00a0concerning the freedom of their country.\u201d \u00a0(Alma 59:13)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His anger is understandable. \u00a0Lack of reinforcements and supplies has cost both Nephite lives and Nephite land. \u00a0But he has misdiagnosed the problem, on the basis of insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a tiny bit of background, see my comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/bom-alma-58.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In Alma 59, Moroni begins to realize that there is a serious problem with supplies and support that must, necessarily, originate with the central government back in Zarahemla. \u00a0 \u201cAnd it came to pass that Moroni was angry with the government, because of their\u00a0indifference\u00a0concerning the freedom of their country.\u201d \u00a0(Alma 59:13) \u00a0 His [&hellip;]<\/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-35823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BOM Alma 59<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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