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Continue ShoppingPresident Nelson calls people to repentance. "Evil has never been resolved by more evil."
The recent protests, riots, and looting, has caused President Russel M. Nelson to post on social media his thoughts about these current events which he calls "saddening." President Nelson has been a big proponent in bringing racial issues forward and working with many different groups, including the NAACP, in fixing the issues that we have as a culture and society.
On June 1st, President Nelson wrote:
We join with many throughout this nation and around the world who are deeply saddened at recent evidences of racism and a blatant disregard for human life. We abhor the reality that some would deny others respect and the most basic of freedoms because of the color of his or her skin.
We are also saddened when these assaults on human dignity lead to escalating violence and unrest.
The Creator of us all calls on each of us to abandon attitudes of prejudice against any group of God’s children. Any of us who has prejudice toward another race needs to repent!
During the Savior’s earthly mission, He constantly ministered to those who were excluded, marginalized, judged, overlooked, abused, and discounted. As His followers, can we do anything less? The answer is no! We believe in freedom, kindness, and fairness for all of God’s children!
Let us be clear. We are brothers and sisters, each of us the child of a loving Father in Heaven. His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, invites all to come unto Him—“black and white, bond and free, male and female,” (2 Nephi 26:33). It behooves each of us to do whatever we can in our spheres of influence to preserve the dignity and respect every son and daughter of God deserves.
Any nation can only be as great as its people. That requires citizens to cultivate a moral compass that helps them distinguish between right and wrong.
Illegal acts such as looting, defacing, or destroying public or private property cannot be tolerated. Never has one wrong been corrected by a second wrong. Evil has never been resolved by more evil.
We need to foster our faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
We need to foster a fundamental respect for the human dignity of every human soul, regardless of their color, creed, or cause.
And we need to work tirelessly to build bridges of understanding rather than creating walls of segregation.
I plead with us to work together for peace, for mutual respect, and for an outpouring of love for all of God’s children.
Kim Creager
Jun 15, 2020
What a wonderful message from President Nielsen.
We basically need to turn our hearts to our Father in heaven, especially during times of trial.
Also, President Monson told us "We need to stop becoming angry, because anger and contention comes from the devil. "
Violence, destruction of property and looting is sad.
Our savior Jesus Christ never taught that we should hate, fight, destroy, or attack anyone. Even if they committed a crime.
He said pray for them.
This isn’t easy, but it’s what we need to do…
Steven Andersen
Jun 15, 2020
Amen – the Prophet has spoken.
Deb
Jun 15, 2020
I also agree with Daniel Coolbears comment. The image and title with this are inflammatory in my opinion. I am very much against the riots and violence, but President Nelsons message was about loving one another and asking each of us to look inside ourselves and be our best selves. There was no political agenda with it.
Rebecca Thomas-Hajrulla
Jun 15, 2020
Thankyou dear Prophet. We are blessed to have you here. We need to repent, everyone of us, humbly kneeling before our GOD, asking him to help us be better humans towards each other who feel compelled to hurt, mame, loot, steal, deface others property and take life illegally. The whole world must repent or we will be destroyed prior to our Saviors coming. Start living right!!!