I was talking to a woman who is a friend the other day. We had a little light-hearted banter going on before she said, “Oh don’t get me started on politics.” We had previously talked a few times about politics and I knew she didn’t like that topic. We have also had conversations on conspiracy theories and religion. Both are also subjects she is not a fan of. At that point, I couldn’t help it.
I asked her if she had heard of the Second Esdras stuff. She replied, “No.” So, I proceeded to tell her briefly about the eagle heads and feathers. If it was all correct some strange things would take place before Jan 20, 2025, before the new president takes office. I briefly explained that Biden would not be president at that time and two people will have conspired to become president. The three heads of the eagle would awaken at the same time to prevent those two people from taking office. She started to roll her eyes and I said, “It was written 2000 years ago.”
I didn’t tell her this, but as I thought about it writing this, I realized. If they pulled all the strings and made it so Biden won the election. Then prior to him taking office, said he was unfit and tried to replace him with Kamala Harris and someone of their choosing, that could very well create a constitutional crisis. To many, it would look as though they rigged the election just to get rid of the crusty old man and replace him with someone of their choosing who was not elected.
In the middle of our conversation, she blew up about the college students today. She was very passionately upset at the universities and college students because of the protests and rioting that had been taking place. She then moved into venting on public school and homeschool curriculum, she does the latter. Everything has flipped on its head she said.
I told her I honestly don’t worry about politics anymore. She couldn’t believe that. I told her, I used to care a lot about it. I spent hours daily looking at it, studying, commenting on it, and telling people about it. I used to feel as though I had to say something. I didn’t want to stand before God and be found having not said anything about the decay in politics and morality in this country.
One day I realized two things. Number one, I was angry all the time. The things that I was witnessing made me mad. They were unjust. They were immoral. They were destroying the family, the country, government, and society. Number two, I realized the more I tried to fight, how ill-equipped I was to fight. I couldn’t study all the subjects. There were not enough hours of the day to be up-to-date on one crisis, let alone 100 of them. I couldn’t physically know everything there was to know about everything. I also realized for every argument I had against something, someone had an equal number of arguments for it. For every study I found that made something wrong, someone had a study that said it was right. At the point I came to that realization, I vowed to stop focusing on politics and start focusing on religion. I have been happier ever since.
This part was really interesting. She started telling me about her divorce. She was married to a man who all he did was watch Fox News all day, every day. He would corner her wanting to tell her all about the injustice he was hearing about. He was angry and combative all the time. She would resist him and even demanded to be left alone about it. He would accuse her of burying her head in the sand. As she talked about him, I saw elements of myself in him. I wasn’t that mean about it. But I could feel that anger in me. I was thankful in that moment that I had abandoned politics.
I don’t think this is just a toxic right issue. I know the example I used was. This is a political issue and the toxicity is just a vile on the left. I would argue it is worse on the left, but it is acceptable because their position is politically correct. But most of the accusations of toxicity are against the right. In actuality, politics altogether is toxic towards religion as a whole. The religion of government is their solution to all the ills in the world.
When I told her I had decided to focus on religion, she kind of scoffed at me asking if I was only focusing on one religion, the Mormon religion or all. I said, “Look, I have a firm testimony in the LDS church. I will never stray from that. It has the fullness. So, I focus on my testimony and my study of that religion. ”
Clearly, God will witness truth wherever it is found. But, the fullness is found in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I think people will be really shocked when they figure that out. Even if they figure it out, it will not be an easy straight road for those who follow it. I have a feeling that we are being told to learn to follow the Holy Ghost for ourselves because the church will at some point not be able to guide us. I really honestly think it will destroy the faith of many.
What does this story tell me? It is almost like the scripture in Matthew 11:29-30 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. That is what I feel I have experienced. He has lightened my burdens as I have learned of him. Amen