The most critical, important, core duty of any successful society is to nurture families. Every other organizational structure in society but mimics the root family structure. Every good function of state and religion can be seen as a reflection of the good family.
This should be obvious, it should be a basic mental model that everyone understands. The military as fatherly protector, the judicial branch as the fatherly role of judge, the state and church's charity as reflection parental love for its members. Fraternal organizations always consider its members brothers, young soldiers look up to their commander as children to a trusting father, etc. I could go on!
So, for example, we see the state sanctioning family-destructive practices such as murdering unborn children, inverting sexual relationships and "family" from reproductive to primarily consumptive. I mean this literally in both its meanings - two men playing house is primarily a useful union for the economy as consumers, but also is a reflection of a disease undermining the state's foundation.
Because, of course, without healthy, reproductive families, the state dies. The current trend to replace all the state's own children with foreigners is a temporary band-aid seeking more consumers. Of course, the joke is that the adopted children aren't quite as bright or productive, and they still need to have children or the whole diseased pyramid falls apart...
Yet, unfortunately, in a state in which the state is trying to cut away its own root, religion should be the traditional defender to chastise its ways and call it to repent or perish. The Catholics have been doing admirably at calling out symptoms... but policy agreement with Mormons doesn't really get at the core of what is going on here.
As far as I know, the Mormons are the only group that by-definiton can't compromise on this point - that resolutely refuses to have the family attacked in any way. That still actively promotes, encourages, nurtures, teaches, and protects the family.
Ignore the top-down perspective for a moment:
When a young husband and wife are struggling financially and emotionally with raising children, with being good parents, with staying together no matter what - what is to protect and keep them?
A moral duty may be sufficient for some, but apparently not most, the behavior of society at large and most denominations at large attests to this.
The Mormons are the only group that directly links family (which is absolutely, bar-none, the most critical aspect of a nation and society's health) with sacred.
That is, the only denominations that family duty really and totally is spiritual duty - not just a reflection, analogy, or whatever - but absolutely and totally. The everyday, mundane, beautiful things are elevated to the most important spiritual things. One is actively living out everyday a spiritual existence when providing for ones family, raising children, loving them.
No one else does that. No one defends the family as such. No one protects and supports civilization and society as a whole as such.
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