President Kimbal Quote

 I love this quote from President Kimball I believe and I need to credit it to someone from the Mormons for Obama facebook page for sharing it.

"We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel—ships, planes, missiles, fortifications—and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become antienemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan’s counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior’s teaching:

 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

 'That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.' (Matt. 5:44–45.)"

Having pride in your country is good, worshiping that country to the point that it gets in the way of worshiping God--part of which is following the basic commandment to love--is bad. Loving anything to dogmatic obsession is bad, even your religion and your god. Even if we say Jesus's name as we pray or claim to be Christian, if that is getting in the way of treating other people and other nations with basic respect, then it's not the God that Jesus and Moses and Muhammad preached, but is in actuality the only other god with power in this world, and that is Evil.