"Weakness" and "Strength", Today
The latest issue of TIME Magazine features a cover article on Mitt Romney's version of Mormon Faith and Religion. That article mentions the Mormon "White Horse Prophecy". This Blog also cited the prophecy in "PROPHETS" AND "PROFITS", dated June 10, 2012. See also: POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, dated April 27, 2012.
Many in my generation are familiar with the phrase"Man on a White Horse", which pertains to a type of politician who rises to power and rules through strength; at a time when "the people" are in stress, and can't make decisions. Check the following Google sites for more info:
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/gillette/revsix.html
The roots for the Mormon version trace back to Joseph Smith in the early 1800's and the birth of their uniquely "American" religion. For an accurate, time-tested, description of what our young Democracy was like at that time, I rely on Alexis DeTocqueville who saw our governing experiment in terms of the clash between three "peoples", the entering European, the resident Natives and the African slaves. The founders of Mormonism digested those times and wrote the prevailing social customs regarding race into their Book of Mormon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_early_Mormonism. As time passed, the nation's obsession with skin color and biblical prohibitions morphed into a "science" called Eugenics in the early days of the 1900s. The Mormons' did not modify their Book significantly on this topic until after the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s.
This information is offered for those who might still be confused as to who comprises the "47%" Mitt recently, and famously, described.
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