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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I really riled up cougarboard in the past before I was quasi-banned, by saying that the world is actually becoming a less evil place, and then providing measures to back up my point.
This was not received well. Mormons are generally very invested in the idea that the world is bad, and is getting worse fast. The problem I have with thish pessimistic vision is that Mormons then do not believe that the world can be redeemed, and if the world cannot be redeemed, then there is no attempt to build Zion. That the world can be redeemed is the primary tenet of Zion.
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I think we're invested in the world going down hill b/c it makes us feel better about ourselves, our brightness becomes more evident as the world gets darker.
As far as redeeming the world, I thought that was after it went to hell in a handbasket.