Moral Orientation: Part III - Self-as-Sovereign

Damnatio Memoriae*
(Erasing memory)

(Thoughts and Observations)

If we view history and humanity through moral orientation, we seem, in thought and deed, to continually fluctuate between orientations:

1. Transcendent / Divine
2. Social / Power Consensus
3. Self-as-Sovereign [as Supreme Authority].

For background to this 3-part series, see 1) Moral Orientation? Where Are We?¹ and 2) Moral Orientation? Part II: Social / Power Consensus?²

The third orientation: self-as-sovereign runs along a spectrum from sweet, naïve new-ager types who radiate love, peace, freedom, tolerance, live-and-let-live all the way to the extreme, “do what thou wilt,” hard-core pederast.

Yes, tolerance and live-and-let-live are essential elements in this mortal probation³ with its moral agency — where  tolerance means accepting people without having to accept their ideas or demands. They pursue their own way and we pursue them with “Good News” (as much as they will allow).

Granted, maintaining peace and social order is a complex task in a complex society, but in large measure private, personal choices do not injure others or their property. If choices do harm (especially the innocent), there are generally criminal and civil remedies, but, in the end, all thought, speech, and action, public or private, will be judged by Divine Justice — not by social / power consensus or some sovereign-self defense. The Great Judge will decide, in every individual case, if it is just to apply mercy.⁴ In the meantime, however, our societies and cultures must learn how to manage aggressive, self-as-sovereign activists and tyrants (and their servitors) who pursue control and domination.

If we had retained memory of the “Grand Council,”⁵ we might be better able to spot the many mortal variants of that first and famous self-as-sovereign activist — the one described by God:

1 AND I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
2 But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.
3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;
4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:1-4).

Isaiah said of this failed usurper:

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:12-14).

We see this self-as-sovereign attitude manifest in the monuments, inscriptions, and writings of many kings, pharaohs, emperors, wanna-be’s, et al. throughout history. In page after page in Empires of the Bible one can read the extravagant, self-accolades of old world tyrants.⁶

And what is self-as-sovereign if not: “I am who I think and say I am; I am subjectively able to decide what is good and what is bad; I am destined, deserving, entitled to rule in whatever spheres I choose; My way is the way”? And thus we hear the ever recycling divine lament of “their own way.”⁷

We are now witnessing a self-as-sovereign explosion, especially, in the promotion by seducers and servitors of “sovereign” dysphorics — supreme arbiters now of what is “real” based on feelings; of what is good speech, what is hate speech; what is right, what is wrong; what is timely, what is not; what another must say and think to conform to the sovereign-self’s self-image. Values orientation is now subjective and personal unless contested, and then it (bizarrely) becomes objective and compulsory (for less-sovereign selves?). Almost always, the self-as-sovereign moves from personal choice to public coercion.

We see this self-as-sovereign manifest throughout scripture, every time an “authority” took it upon him- / herself to act outside divine orientation. Think of kings Saul, David, Solomon and on down the divided line for generations. We see it succinctly expressed in the words of anti-Christ Korihor:

17 And many more such things did he [Korihor] say unto them, telling them that there could be no atonement made for the sins of men, but every man fared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime.
18 And thus he did preach unto them, leading away the hearts of many, causing them to lift up their heads in their wickedness, yea, leading away many women, and also men, to commit whoredoms—telling them that when a man was dead, that was the end thereof  (Book of Mormon | Alma 30:17-18).

We see it in the descriptions of the “natural man.”⁸ Many, in the past, have conspired to be rulers, and using fear, favour, and falsehood have prospered for a time, always with the help of social / power consensus. As Étienne de La Boétie observed:

I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they ...⁸

Now under COVID, “gender,” and climate politics, we have regressed to another déjà vu of tyranny and mindless servitors. With the aid of the internet, social / power consensus has elevated the self-as-sovereign orientation to new heights, creating a flood of mini-tyrants — a plague of bullies; a bully culture. Social / Power consensus and self-as-sovereign have conjoined once again to battle against transcendent / divine. So, have we come to this?

5 [T]he people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable (Old Testament | Isaiah 3:5).

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever (New Testament | Romans 1:25).

Before ending this post, I reiterate: for truly dysphoric adolescents, compassion with a balancing of facts, feelings, faith, and science (NOT pscience ⁹) can help adolescents navigate crises till the age of maturity when as adults, they can make a choice of orientation and presentation, but not a choice to coerce conformity in others.

In the meantime what choices are we, adults, making? Are we, “compassionately” coaching youth to live in the suffocation and sin of self-focus and -centredness with the expectation of happiness, joy, peace? Are we too sophisticated to mention:

19 [K]now ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's (New Testament | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)?

Let us ponder whether our participation in the mocking of divine truths and divine traditions that have proven themselves over millennia is but a precursor to the sudden demise of our own arrogance.

G.K. Chesterton: Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. (Orthodoxy [Image Books, 1959], 48)¹⁰

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html
3. Probation:

Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 10:20 21
   20 Therefore remember, O man, for all thy doings thou shalt be brought into judgment.
   21 Wherefore, if ye have sought to do wickedly in the days of your probation, then ye are found unclean before the judgment–seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:21
   21 And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of probation, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:27-28
   27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state!
   28 O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 33:9
   9 I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait path which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the day of probation.
Book of Mormon | Alma 12:24
   24 And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead.
Book of Mormon | Alma 42:3-4, 10, 13
   3 Now, we see that the man had become as God, knowing good and evil; and lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, the Lord God placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he should not partake of the fruit—
   4 And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man to repent, yea, a probationary time, a time to repent and serve God. ...
   10 Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature, this probationary state became a state for them to prepare; it became a preparatory state. ...
   13 Therefore, according to justice, the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance of men in this probationary state, yea, this preparatory state; for except it were for these conditions, mercy could not take effect except it should destroy the work of justice. Now the work of justice could not be destroyed; if so, God would cease to be God.
Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:38
   38 But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.
Book of Mormon | Mormon 9:28
   28 Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 29:43-45
   43 And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his probation—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;
   44 And they that believe not unto eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not;
   45 For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.
4. Book of Mormon | Alma 42:12-31
5. https://www.mormonwiki.com/Council_in_Heaven
https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2015/09/the-grand-council-and-the-war-in-heaven/
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-student-manual/section-116-grand-council?lang=eng
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2010/joseph-smith-and-the-biblical-council-of-gods
6. Jones, Alonzo T. Empires of the Bible(Kindle Locations 3848-3850). . Kindle Edition.
See sampling at: https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html
7. (All bold emphasis added.)
Old Testament | Proverbs 1:30-31
   30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
   31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Old Testament | Isaiah 53:6; Book of Mormon | Mosiah 14:6
   6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Old Testament | Isaiah 56:10-11
   10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
   11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Old Testament | Isaiah 58:13
   13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Old Testament | Isaiah 66:3
   3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Old Testament | Ezekiel 22:31
   31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Old Testament | Ezekiel 36:17, 32
   17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. ...
   32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Book of Mormon | Helaman 6:31
   31 And now behold, he [Satan] had got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites; yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked; yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of righteousness, and did trample under their feet the commandments of God, and did turn unto their own ways, and did build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:15-16
   15 For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;
   16 They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 56:14-15
   14 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my people—you have many things to do and to repent of; for behold, your sins have come up unto me, and are not pardoned, because you seek to counsel in your own ways.
   15 And your hearts are not satisfied. And ye obey not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.
8. Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19
   19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14
   14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Book of Mormon | Alma 26:21-22
   21 And now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there that knoweth these things? I say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things, save it be the penitent.
   22 Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing—unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 67:12
   12 Neither can any natural man abide the presence of God, neither after the carnal mind.
9. https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/023-mystery-of-civil-obedience.html
See also: https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/006-secret-of-domination-6-6-6.html
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/04/049-submission-through-corruption.html
9.  Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
10. As quoted by Dickson, John. A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments: How, for Better or Worse, Our Ideas about the Good Life Come from Moses and Jesus (p. 15). Zondervan Academic. Kindle Edition.

Moral Orientation? Part II: Social / Power Consensus?

If we view history and humanity through moral orientation, we seem, in thought and deed, to continually fluctuate between orientations:

1. Transcendent / Divine,
2. Social / Power Consensus, and
3. Self as Sovereign.

For background for this 3-part series, see “The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge [Orientation]” by John Lennox and Jordan B. Peterson¹ and Déjà Vu – Times II, part one: “Moral Orientation? Where Are We?”²

At first blush, consensus might seem the most pragmatic and democratic way to establish morals and values for a complex society, until we remember the things that have been done in the name of social / power consensus.³

Lennox and Peterson use the analogy of Nazi Germany to illustrate the problems with social / power consensus, but the Nazis are just one of many historical genocides and massacres that unfolded under a social / power consensus. This partial list of historical examples⁴ is shocking; not to mention the B.C. and A.D. millennia of slave-trading, enslavement, wars, and violent domination. In our own time, we have witnessed decades of proxy wars, “legal” abortions, tyrannical regimes, and quasi-hidden atrocities like the Phoenix program⁵ all under social / power consensus.

Just ponder how the Ten Commandments from a divine / transcendent orientation have fared under social / power consensus?

  [1] Thou shalt have no other gods before me;
  [2] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness ... [nor] bow down ... to them, nor serve them; ...
  [3] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; ....
  [4] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ....
  [5] Honour thy father and thy mother ....
  [6] Thou shalt not kill.
  [7] Thou shalt not commit adultery.
  [8] Thou shalt not steal.
  [9] Thou shalt not bear false witness ....
[10] Thou shalt not covet ...

And what of the global COVID narrative where once freedom-loving, courteous peoples and nations morphed into bullies, aggressors, accusers, coercers, and snitches; into fearful, cruel, blind and deaf amnesiacs. Just listen to the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI⁶) to get a sense of what a social / power consensus did to the lives and integrity of millions worldwide. And let us never forget how captured the majority of our medics, judges, teachers, leaders, “experts” and enforcers were by a coercive, false narrative.

Perhaps worst of all is the present morass of “gender” politics inverting the creation of Day Six⁷ into a medical and pharma windfall. Are we so blind that we do not see this for what it is? Are we not aware of what unethical pscience⁸ can achieve through food, pharma, trauma, mental contagion, and menticide⁹? Are we such dupes (under an illusion of compassion¹⁰) that we think disorders and dysphorias described in the DMV5 are, now,  to be affirmed and facilitated? When was the threat of suicide, if one did not get one’s feelings affirmed, ever acceptable? When was it ever compassionate to encourage body mutilation to “feel” better or to become oneself?

How are “spiritually”-aware adults (“expert” or not, LDS or not) who guide socially / emotionally confused and / or abused children into the arms of profiteers any better than infidels? I suspect they will be deemed worse.

Let us ask: When were adolescent feelings ever the end of the story? Are we implying to youth that if God doesn’t give a quick fix to confusion, that time and maturity won’t help either? Instead of trusting in and seeking help (patiently) from the Creator, do we try to fast-track the fix and force it on others because God-created hormones will not wait? Are consensus-captured parents any better than captured-“experts” at deciding when to chemically castrate or sex-change (exchange) a child? And when did anyone ever have the right to cause or to consent to cause harm or injury to a child? Even the child does not have  legal capacity to consent to harm by another, even by a parent. And don’t we already know plenty of parents and others who have been held legally accountable for harm to a child? except now it’s encouraged if called “gender-affirming care”? And “conversion therapy”¹¹ (even talk-therapy) is outlawed in many places after “gender-affirming” conversion has been achieved. Just consider all the inversions, projections, and “self”-incriminations of pseudoscientific practice that one finds in this one wiki article (“conversion therapy”).

Of course, dysphoric children need compassion, and understanding, but not the corruption of compassion that escalates feelings and confusion into irreversible, life-altering sterility and life-long medical / pharma after-care.

Give adolescents the full story. Acknowledge the thousands of de-transitioners. Let dysphoric children hear the “down-side” of social / power consensus. Help them understand that “identity crisis” and “role confusion” are the short-term norm (known and studied for decades¹²) for most adolescents; that they are in the midst of psycho-social-physical development and that this abnormal spike in “gender” dysphoria is sourced in a social / mental construct, NOT in some erroneous sex-assignment at or before birth. Sex is a physical construct, visible and invisible. No amount of cutting, cosmetics, or imagining  can change billions of XX to XY or vice versa; nor does it work to pretend we are sovereign beings, accountable only to self, but with the sovereign right to compel others to see and accept whatever we allege. We are not potter’s clay to mush and mold ourselves at whim:

6 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? (Old Testament | Isaiah 29:16)

And another thing: what of the social / power consensus of DEI¹³ ideology that is, in reality, destroying all the real DEI gains of the past 70 years? The faux, coercive DEI being preached by captured, coerced corps, CEOs, et al. is but one more “turning of things upside down” presaging another déjà vu collapse, as some corps already know.

If we consider scripture history, we can see that almost every cause of lamentation arose because God’s people fell into a social / power consensus orientation. What built the tower of Babel? the great and spacious buildings of then and now? What kept the children of Israel in bondage for hundreds of years? What brought about a turning away from the judge-system to a desire for kings “like all the nations”¹⁴? What do we think undergird the killing of Jesus? 

In our own day, social / power consensus is aggressively destroying transcendent / divine orientation. Infiltrators, provocateurs, deceivers, and dupers have maneuvered their way into every level of government, every agency, every church, and every institution, weaponizing a deluded form of “love thy neighbour” over “love the Lord thy God” and promoting trust in (corrupted, psychopathic) pscience. Let us ask ourselves: Where is my orientation? What is the orientation of leaders as manifest in word, deed, silence? Are we being asked to pretend? to live a lie?

The reality of this last test and gathering is that believers in transcendent / divine orientation will likely  become targets for scorn, coercion, and censorship¹⁵ by advocates of social / power consensus. We are seeing it already. If déjà vu holds true, it may even escalate to a repeat of death threats as recorded in the Ancient Americas that preceded His first coming,¹⁶ even if that seems impossible, but then who could have imagined the cruelty and crimes of these past four COVID years.

Will we be discerning or will we follow the pied-pipers of social / power consensus?

PS: Feb 15, 2024: As for consensus advocates who feel they are the persecuted, maligned ones, perhaps they are; God knows, but what if criticism is in the same sense as those (like priests of Baal, idolaters, kingmen, Pharisees, Sadducees, and so forth) who came under the convicting words of Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, the Nephis and Almas, Helaman, Peter, Paul, et al., but especially the blistering rebukes of Jesus¹⁷? And if we think that only prophets and apostles are allowed to criticize, what should we make of this counsel to disciples (bold emphasis added):

6 And Jesus said unto his disciples, Beholdest thou the Scribes, and the Pharisees, and the Priests, and the Levites? They teach in their synagogues, but do not observe the law, nor the commandments; and all have gone out of the way, and are under sin.
7 Go thou and say unto them, Why teach ye men the law and the commandments, when ye yourselves are the children of corruption?
8 Say unto them, Ye hypocrites, first cast out the beam out of thine own yes; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
9 Go ye into the world, saying unto all, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come nigh unto you (New Testament | JST Matthew 7:6-9; JST1876-NT, p. 10).

Always bearing in mind:

1 Now these are the words which Jesus taught his disciples that they should say unto the people. Judge not unrighteously, that ye be not judged; but judge righteous judgment.
2 For with what judgment ye shall judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again (New Testament | JST Matthew 7:1-2).

24 Judge not according to your traditions, but judge righteous judgment (New Testament | JST John 7:24).

Every one of us is, by our nature, self-defensive, but if we are not honest in evaluating criticism of ourselves or our friends, would that not also be unrighteous judgment?

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1. The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge [Orientation]
(Jordan B Peterson Clips | Nov 6, 2023 | Time 12:34 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4 (archived at https://archive.org/)
Full episode at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI2se3O80Q, or
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/a-conversation-about-god-dr-john-lennox
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html
3. And yes, there are questions about things allegedly done under a transcendent / divine orientation, but how often in history have we seen God's name (mis)used to justify things not of God (a violation of the third commandment). To claim an Orientation is not the deciding word because Orientation Two often seeks to wrap itself in Orientation One, as we see in gender-affirming care. As to the wrath and anger of God for all our breaches: Justice does terrible things when repentance is rejected and Mercy unrequested. For the most part, we do not understand in the least, how fierce the character of Justice. 
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides
https://genocideeducation.org/resources/modern-era-genocides/
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/learn/subject-guides/genocides/
https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Top-10-Worst-Genocides-in-History
Just a few for example:
   Cathars Genocide (France, 1209-29 AD)
   Duzangar Genocide ( China, 1755-58 AD)
   Haiti Massacre (Haiti, 1804)
   Moriori Genocide (New Zealand, 1835-63)
   Circassian Genocide (Russian Empire, 1864-67)
   Armenian Genocide ( Ottoman Empire, 1894-96)
   Holodomor (Ukraine, 1932-33)
   Romani Holocaust (German-occupied Europe, 1935-1945)
   Rwandan genocide (Rwanda, 1994)
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program
Book: The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine
6. https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/
7. Old Testament | Genesis 1:27-28, 31
   27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
   28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ...
   31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
8. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
9. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Dr. Joost A. M.Meerloo
10. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-truth-story.html
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy
12. Various theories and studies on Developmental Psychology whether one agrees with them all or not: Piaget, Erikson, Marcia, Kohlberg, Bandura, Vygotsky, Spitz, Bowlby, Harlow, Ainsworth, Bettelheim, K&M Clark, Maccoby, Gelman, Dasen, Sheehy, et al.
13. Diversity | Equity | Inclusion
   https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html
   https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html
   https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html
   https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html
14. Old Testament | 1 Samuel 8:5-6
   5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
   6 ¶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html
15. If scorn, coercion, and censorship are what LGBTQ+ think they are suffering, perhaps some are, but for many their wish is to just live their chosen life without fanfare or coercion of others. The self-obsessed diva / divo (SOD) activists who have ruined the tolerance / acceptance of the past several decades by their demand for narcissistic supply and drive to dominate the culture have created a regrettable backlash. Their coercion of the culture is the opposite of the DEI they claim.
16. Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 1:9
   9 Now it came to pass that there was a day set apart by the unbelievers, that all those who believed in those traditions should be put to death except the sign should come to pass, which had been given by Samuel the prophet.
17. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-to-disrespect-authority.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-two-evil-speaking-discernment.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/03/speaking-truth-to-power-new-testament.html

Back to the Future, Again?

As the tyrannies of SOD activism,¹ DEI- and CEIology,² and ESG scoring³ weave their choking tentacles amongst peoples and corporations, perhaps it would be enlightening to revisit England and New England in the 1600s AD, and then ponder: Is the USian and global future going to be a technified déjà vu?

SOD, DEI, CEI, and ESG are but the latest invasive, strangling, creeper vines⁴ of aggressive power abuse and domination. Their bullying dogmas attempt to silence and strangle, just as the once-persecuted, New England zealots repeated with their new-world non-conformists.⁵

Take Roger Williams (1603-1683),⁶ the founder of Rhode-Island and passionate advocate of freedom of conscience who fled England with his wife in 1630 because he

knew any inquiry into his beliefs would doom him. Many who took far less extreme positions than he— Hooker among them— had already faced the High Commission. Some had only lost their livings, but others had gone to prison after enduring heinous physical mutilation.⁷

By October 1635, Williams had to flee Salem, Massachusetts under an order of banishment because, amongst other beliefs, he claimed:

The state ... had no authority to inject itself in any way into an individual’s relationship with God [and conscience]. It must enforce only the commandments in the “Second Table”: those which govern human relations, such as the injunctions forbidding murder, theft, lying, adultery, and covetousness.⁸

So, as we approach similitude to the mid-1600s, what are our latter-day equivalents (of 17th Century fining, banning, whipping, branding, cutting off ears, puncturing tongues with red-hot irons, imprisoning, and execution) for latter-day resisters of the coercive dogmas of SOD, DEI, CEI, and ESG?

None of these dogmas are progressive despite their pretentions. They are, at core, incredibly regressive and hypocritical as summarized here concerning DEI:

7 Ways Your DEI Initiatives Are Harming Your Company and How To Resolve It | Linked in | Brian Dapelo.⁹

1) DEI is discriminatory
2) DEI unnecessarily preferences physical attributes over the non-physical
3) DEI diminishes the size of the talent pool
4) DEI decreases performance
5) DEI is divisive
6) DEI diminishes accomplishments and disincentivizes performance
7) DEI is distracting

So what are we each going to do? stand with the real progressions of 20th Century Woke or the frauds and regressions of 21st Century Faux-woke¹⁰?

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1. SOD: self-obsessed diva / divo activists. Genuine dysphorics just want to live their lives without demanding that the world affirm, applaud, and pay bending homage to their choice. They wish to attend social, sports, or other functions in their chosen persona without fanfare and without the narcissistic need to have the entire event and all actors, athletes, and audience roll out the pastel carpet in spectacular welcome, which, by the way, violates every one of their trumpeted mantras: diversity, equity, inclusion. Where is the diversity and equity in excluding everyone who is not SOD in the special recognition and affirmation of their lifestyle? Where is the DEI in their vociferous demands for special privilege and exemption from criticism or challenge or hurt feelings?
See also:
   ▪ https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html
   ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html
   ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html
2. DEI: Diversity | Equity | Inclusion

   ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html
    ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html
   ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/06/fwoke-blow-back.html

CEI: The Corporate Equality Index is a report published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as a tool to rate American businesses on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Equality_Index
3. • ESG EXPOSED - A $66 Trillion Dollar Weapon Used To Control Corporate America (Valuetainment | June 21, 2023 | Time 17:58 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUpcfBOsos

   • ESG Explained: Socially Conscious Capitalism and Its Backlash (Bloomberg Law | Mar 7, 2023 | Time 7:01 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WVdP9ssU2o
BUT later:
   • BlackRock CEO 'ASHAMED' Of ESG | Breaking Points ( Breaking Points | June 27, 2023 | Time 9:29 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iD6XSExUi8
   • Larry Fink's ESG Change of Heart | (The Real Investment Show | July 3, 2023 | Time 11:55 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSuXjgiKUA
   • The ESG investment backlash is beginning to have an impact | FT Moral Money (Financial Times| Fwb 6, 2023 | Time 3:13 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jabRNJ6Ng
   • https://www.diligent.com/insights/esg/
   • https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/esg-investing/
   • https://www.ensogo.io/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlouZpcyJgAMVsh-tBh0p2wEpEAAYBCAAEgI9S_D_BwE
4. • https://www.housedigest.com/658631/invasive-vines-you-should-know-about/
    • https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/indiana/stories-in-indiana/kudzu-invasive-species/
5. This year [1656] is made remarkable by the arrival at Boston, of several persons, of the new sect called Quakers.[ 298] They were imprisoned and banished. The books which they brought with them were seized and burnt. Severe laws were enacted to exclude them from the Commonwealth. In October, 1656, (says Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 181,) “An act passed, laying a penalty of one hundred pounds upon the master of any vessel who should bring a known Quaker into any part of the colony, and requiring him to give security to carry them back again; that the Quaker should be immediately sent to the house of correction, and whipped twenty stripes, and afterwards kept to hard labor until transportation. They also laid a penalty of five pounds for importing, and the like for dispersing, Quaker books, and severe penalties for defending their heretical opinions. And the next year, an additional law was made, by which all persons were subjected to the penalty of forty shillings for every hour’s entertainment given to any known Quaker; and any Quaker, after the first conviction, if a man, was to lose one ear, and the second time the other; a woman, each time to be severely whipped, and the third time, men or women, to have their tongues bored through with a red hot iron, and every Quaker, who should become such in the colony, was subjected to the like punishments. In May, 1658, a penalty of ten shillings was laid on every person present at a Quaker meeting, and five pounds upon every one speaking at such a meeting. Notwithstanding all this severity, the number of Quakers, as might well have been expected, increasing rather than diminishing, in October following, a further law was made for punishing with death all Quakers, who should return into the jurisdiction after banishment.”
By this sanguinary law, which passed the Court by a majority of one vote only, four persons were afterwards executed, and a large number were imprisoned, whipped, fined and banished, until an order from the King, Charles II. in 1661, put an end to these proceedings. The conduct of some of these persons was scandalous,[ 299] and deserved punishment, as offences against civil order and decency; but nothing can justify the severity with which some of them were treated. The impolicy of persecution was fully displayed on this occasion; for the Quakers multiplied, in proportion as they were threatened and punished.
The other united colonies passed severe laws against the Quakers; and they endeavored to prevail on Rhode-Island to unite in this general persecution. But she remained true to her principles. The General Assembly, which met at Portsmouth, March 13, 1657, returned an answer to the commissioners of the united colonies, in which they held this language:
“Whereas freedom of different consciences to be protected from enforcements, was the principal ground of our charter, both with respect to our humble suit for it, as also to the true intent of the honorable and renowned Parliament of England, in granting of the same to us, which freedom we still prize, as the greatest happiness that men can possess in this world, therefore we shall, for the preservation of our civil peace and order, the more especially take notice that those people, and any others that are here, or shall come among us, be impartially required, and to our utmost constrained, to perform all civil duties requisite. And in case they refuse it, we resolve to make use of the first opportunity to inform our agent, residing in England.” (Note: civil duty is not faith-based.)
(Knowles, James D.. Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island (p. 293-4). Good Press. Kindle Edition.)
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams 
7. Barry, John M.. Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul (p. 141). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
8. Ibid., (p. 151).
9. 7 Ways Your DEI Initiatives Are Harming Your Company and How To Resolve It. (Brian Dapelo | Linked in | April 27, 2022) at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-ways-dei-harming-your-company-how-resolve-brian-dapelo (Also reviewed circa min. 13:50 at ESG EXPOSED - A $66 Trillion Dollar Weapon Used To Control Corporate America (Valuetainment | June 21, 2023 | Time 17:58 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUpcfBOsos
10. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html

Choose You This Day*?

If you have encountered the book, The Return of the Gods,¹ you will know why God's will is that we “obtain a knowledge of history”² for at least three reasons: 1) déjà vu; 2) déjà vu; 3) déjà vu.

What do we know of the main three gods that seduced ancient Israel: Baal, Astarte (Ishtar), and Moloch³? Every one of these pagan gods was obsessed with self, sex. human-sacrifice, and power / domination — the chief purveyors of corrupting iniquity. But despite continual warnings, God's people and their kings repeatedly succumbed to the seductions of self, sex, and child-sacrifice. And what, in our day, is abortion⁴ if not child-sacrifice?

Can we thus recognize that we are, this very day, in the midst of the same four seductions and emulations. Many of our nations have now passed laws sustaining the ways of the pagan gods and rejecting the God of Salvation. Yet it appears that the majority have still not awakened to the awful situation that envelopes US. Yes, we must have compassion for the truly confused and deceived, but to march in SOD⁵ parades and promote SOD agendas of inversion and pretense is to follow in “the [divinely denounced] way of Jeroboam”⁶ — the first king of “the Northern” tribes of Israel who turned the people to confusion and idolatry to preserve and protect power.

And though many nations have, over time, fallen into the way of Jeroboam, do we dare admit which nation now stands as the national Jeroboam? Is it the nation presenting itself as the golden head of empires, as the king of kingdoms⁷? the USian nation of “the North” American continent? In its founding, Israel was laden with promise, hope, and responsibility, yet what happened to it? Repeated apostasy.

As we consider our present culture and social media contagions, what do we see but the obsessions of self, sex, and tyrannical power? — the emulation and promotion of pretense and pagan god values? the resurgence of the iniquities that have marked the decline and death of every empire?

So what can we do? Inform ourselves. Study The Return of the Gods. Recognize the déjà vus and parallels of history. Discuss these parallels with others. Expose the resurgent spirit of the pagan gods. Stand by Constitutional values and principles. Leave others free to choose their private life-style, but not free to publicly coerce or tyrannize others. Be courageous. Be intensely prayerful. And ponder this:

8 ¶ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this [White] house, which is called by my name [and calling⁸], and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? (Old Testament | Jeremiah 7:8 - 10)

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* Old Testament | Joshua 24:14 - 15
   14 ¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
   15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Book of Mormon | Alma 30:7 - 11
   7 Now there was no law against a man's belief; for it was strictly contrary to the commands of God that there should be a law which should bring men on to unequal grounds.
   8 For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve.
   9 Now if a man desired to serve God, it was his privilege; or rather, if he believed in God it was his privilege to serve him; but if he did not believe in him there was no law to punish him.
   10 But if he murdered he was punished unto death; and if he robbed he was also punished; and if he stole he was also punished; and if he committed adultery he was also punished; yea, for all this wickedness they were punished.
   11 For there was a law that men should be judged according to their crimes. Nevertheless, there was no law against a man's belief; therefore, a man was punished only for the crimes which he had done; therefore all men were on equal grounds.
Pearl of Great Price | Moses 6:33
   33 Say unto this people: Choose ye this day, to serve the Lord God who made you.

1. Book and Audio available on Hoopla, or most book stores:
The Return of the Gods - Audiobook | Unravel the Enigma of Ancient Deities, by Jonathan Cahn AudioBooksCollection | Apr 20, 2023 | Time 6:38:09 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFClRkQGqd0
YT Segment: The Mystery Of The Transformer | Jonathan Cahn Special | The Return of The Gods (Jonathan Cahn Official | Feb 16, 2023 | Time 5:30 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr12LUVIuiE
2. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 93:53
   53 And, verily I say unto you, that it is my will that you should hasten to translate my scriptures, and to obtain a knowledge of history, and of countries, and of kingdoms, of laws of God and man, and all this for the salvation of Zion. Amen
3. ▪ Fertility Cults of Canaan - https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/fertility-cults-of-canaan
▪ “The Hebrew Bible was quite fierce in its denunciations of Molech, not simply because of the sin of idolatry but also because of the custom of the worshipers of Molech of sacrificing children to the god by fire. The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah describes with horror the ancient rites, telling us that God says, “They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Beth-hinnom and immolated their sons and daughters to Molech bringing sin upon Judah; this I never commanded them, nor did it enter my mind that they should practice such abominations. (Jeremiah 32:35)” - https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2007/01/11/baal-ashtoreth-and-molech-gods-old-testament-rivals/
▪ “The chief evil arose from the fact that the Ba'als were more than mere religious fantasies. They were made the symbols of the reproductive powers of nature, and thus their worship ministered to sexual indulgences, which it at the same time legalized and encouraged. Further, there was placed side by side with the Ba'al a corresponding female symbol, the Ashtoreth (Babyl. "Ashtar") and the relation between the two deities was set forth as the example and the motive of unbridled sensuality.” https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2236-ba-al-and-ba-al-worship
▪ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baal-ancient-deity
▪ “One of the main prophetic objections to Baal-worship was its association with ritual sex. That Babylonian religion involved ritual sacred harlotry is clear in the original sources, where it was associated with the goddess Ishtar. It is not unlikely that the Canaanite worship of Astarte (the consort of Baal and equivalent deity to Ishtar) also involved enactments of the "sacred marriage." Israelites allegedly also participated in such rituals, as is indicated by the prophets' denunciation of these practices. ... // Another issue is that of child sacrifice. The prophet Jeremiah indicates that infant sacrifice was offered to Baal as well as to other gods (Jer. 19:5). However, it seems to be more prevalent with other deities such as Moloch.” https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Baal
▪ “Baal worship was rooted in sensuality and involved ritualistic prostitution in the temples. At times, appeasing Baal required human sacrifice, usually the firstborn of the one making the sacrifice (Jeremiah 19:5). The priests of Baal appealed to their god in rites of wild abandon which included loud, ecstatic cries and self-inflicted injury (1 Kings 18:28).” https://www.gotquestions.org/who-Baal.html
▪ “Baal worship also included, at times, child sacrifice, which we see some Israelite kings engaging with later on. ...” https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/who-is-baal-in-the-bible.html
▪ “Archaeologists have recovered hundreds of mythological, epic, and ritual texts written in an alphabetic cuneiform script from this coastal site since its rediscovery in 1929. The Baal revealed in these texts is an aggressive and powerful warrior who vies for kingship among the gods.” https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/ancient-religions/ancient-religion/baal
▪ Ishtar: “A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ishtar
▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inann
▪ “[T]he cult of the baals and Ashtaroth was characterized by gross sensuality and licentiousness. The fragmentary allusions to the cult of Baal Peor (Num. xxv., Hos. ix. 10, Ps. cvi. 28 seq.) exemplify the typical species of Dionysiac orgies that prevailed.4 On the summits of hills and mountains flourished the cult of the givers of increase, and "under every green tree" was practised the licentiousness which in primitive thought was held to secure abundance of crops) see Frazer, Golden Bough, 2nd ed. vol. ii. pp. 204 sqq.). Human sacrifice (Jer. xix. 5), the burning of incense (Jer. vii. 9), violent and ecstatic exercises, ceremonial acts of bowing and kissing, the preparing of sacred mystic cakes, appear among the offences denounced by the Israelite prophets, and show that the cult of Baal (and Astarte) included the characteristic features of heathen worship which recur in various parts of the Semitic world, although attached to other names.” https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/b/baal.html
▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_in_popular_culture
4. As for the recent 2023 reversal of Roe v. Wade (federal abortion law of 1973), we will someday know the true story and motives behind that reversal; and though it has undoubtedly saved some lives,  abortions still continue, including full-term and after-birth termination (murder). 
5. SOD: self-obsessed diva / divo. Genuine dysphorics just want to live their lives without demanding that the world affirm, applaud, and pay bending homage to their choice. They wish to attend social, sports, or other functions in their chosen persona without fanfare and without the narcissistic need to have the entire event and all actors, athletes, and audience roll out the lavender carpet in spectacular welcome, which, by the way, violates every one of their trumpeted mantras: diversity, equity, inclusion. Where is the diversity and equity in excluding everyone who is not SOD in the special recognition and affirmation of their lifestyle? Where is the DEI in their vociferous demands for special privilege and exemption from criticism or challenge or hurt feelings?
See also:
▪ https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html
6. Old Testament | 1 Kings 11:37 - 38
   37 And I will take thee [Jeroboam], and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel [10 tribes].
   38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 12:25 - 31
   25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
   26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
   27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
   28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
   29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
   30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
   31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 15:32 - 34
   32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
   33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
   34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 16:1 - 2
   1 THEN the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
   2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
Old Testament | 1 Kings 16:25 - 28
   25 ¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
   26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
   27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
   28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 22:51 - 53
   51 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
   52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
   53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
7. ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2022/12/bald-eagle-symbol-of-what.html
▪ https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-mahan-strategy.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/01/lost-soul-of-america.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2008/06/memo-to-cindy-mccain-et-al.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2018/09/metaphors-for-meghan-mccain-et-al.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2018/07/beyond-naive.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2017/08/to-hear-to-see-or-not.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2010/01/voices-of-warning.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2018/01/faux-socialists.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2017/09/your-lawyers-your-judges-llps-or-not.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-t-point.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/07/to-loyalists-everywhere.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2008/05/offering-up-children_06.html (A Hypocritical Nation)
▪ https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/05/an-hypocritical-nation.html
▪ https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/08/false-patriotism.html
▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2017/10/operation-psychopath.html
8. Despite diverging opinions, the Federal founders were committed to the separation of Church and State, but not the separation of moral values and state. There was to be no religious coercion of the individual, but integrity in government was expected. This post (https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/patterns-of-exodus-preparing-for-exodus.html), and this book (Godawa, Brian. Wall of Separation: The Phrase that Divided America, Warrior Poet Publishing. Kindle Edition) document the Biblical values and principles that guided the founders, but their overarching commitment to liberty of conscience was the same as subsequently expressed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1842 when he wrote: “11 We claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may”  (Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:11). The individual would be left free to choose values and principles according to conscience, while the state was to govern itself within the limits of constitutional powers and civil jurisdiction by honest and wise men and women according to justice and equity.