To Improve the World

It is often said that to improve the world we must improve our families first.  Therein lies the opportunity to repair all the damage done by any misdeed done by men and women of past or present.  If we eat together, pray together, play together, laugh and learn together; that bond will do more good than any system created my men and governments.  In a recent article it was said:

"In no known human society, past or present, have children generally been raised outside of an intact nuclear family. The nuclear family is one of the most basic of all human institutions, a system of doing things so fundamental that until this century it occurred to very few people that life could exist without it." (James Lincoln Collier, The Rise of Selfishness in America, (1990), 246. Quoted in, Bruce D. Porter, Defending the Family in A Troubled World,  Ensign June 2011. Italics added).

The Family is frankly under attack, and society isn't getting any better.  There all kinds of large and small things that are now thrown at the family in an effort to destroy it.  A few of which include unwed couples living together, homosexuality, and an ever increasing list of laws to govern society.

"Today, however, the world is in danger of abandoning all sense of absolute right or wrong, all morality and virtue, replacing them with an all-encompassing "tolerance" that no longer means what it once meant. An extreme definition of tolerance is now widespread that implicitly or explicitly endorses the right of every person to choose their own morality, even their own “truth,” as though morality and truth were mere matters of personal preference. This extreme tolerance culminates in a refusal to recognize any fixed standards or draw moral distinctions of any kind. Few dare say no to the "almighty self" or suggest that some so-called "lifestyles" may be destructive, contrary to higher law, or simply wrong.


"Curiously enough, this new modern tolerance is often a one-way street. Those who practice it expect everyone to tolerate them in anything they say or do, but show no tolerance themselves toward those who express differing viewpoints or defend traditional morality..." (Bruce D. Porter, Defending the Family in A Troubled World,  Ensign June 2011. Italics added.)

We do not want what you see above, we want unified happy families and socities.  Let us work a little harder to improve the world.

"There is no substitute for a righteous home. That may not be so considered in the world, but it is and ought to be in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family is the unit in the kingdom of God. . ." (Doctrines of Salvation Vol. 2, pg. 67; Joseph Fielding Smith. Italics added).