murder openly spoken from the housetops

And it came to pass that they formed a secret combination, even as they of old; which combination is most abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God; for the Lord worketh not in secret combinations, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man….
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And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed….  Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be” (Ether 8.8-19, 22-23).

​Just to be clear, in opining in the previous two Mad State posts that the U.S. is a devotee of Satan’s doctrine that it is appropriate and glorious to “murder and get gain” (as is evident in Caligula’s contention that the death of a lone journalist—not an American, by the way… as if this makes his murder, somehow less egregious—should not be allowed to threaten the profits and jobs of the American weapons industry), I do not wish to suggest that this is something new with Caligula or his deviant administration. Caligula is simply stupid enough, immoral enough, and brazen enough to bring out of the closet what previous administrations have attempted to keep under wraps.
 
Past administrations have engaged in a kind of “secret combination” when it comes to such values.
 
But, increasingly, one of the Doctrine and Covenants’ very first predictions is unfolding right before our very eyes: “iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops, and… secret acts shall be revealed” (DC 1.3). Some have read this to mean that God would somehow expose human sin, perhaps at the final judgement. But, he needn’t go to the trouble, or wait so long. We are doing for him.
 
Caligula has this week openly spoken a secret American sin that has been committed by pretty much every American administration—Republican and Democrat—since the Second World War. The secret was broadcast from dishes sitting atop buildings and towers, bounced off satellites jetting through in the starry sky, and transmitted through fiber optic cables into the homes of millions of audiences: “We Americans are O.K. with murder, as long as it produces a profit.”
 
There never, ever, ever, ever was any doubt that no moral person, certainly not one called “Christian,” could ever, ever, ever support that vile man. This is just one more nail in the coffin, one more chunk of sulfur from the fires of hell.

"The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;
    and they declare their sin as Sodom,
        they hide it not” (Isaiah 3.9)