![]() The entire society must be dismantled as it was in the days of Noah. Mosiah told his people what must happen: "And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you yea, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land" (Mosiah 29:27). ![]() The recourse under a corrupt monarch is revolution, but what is the recourse under a corrupt democracy? A people cannot revolt against itself. To be subject to a sovereign people which is corrupt and vicious is a more terrible situation than to be subject to a corrupt monarch. As religious faith deteriorates and moral standards inevitably fall, total corruption is possible. ![]() “But it is just possible that Americans may be living on one of those boundaries in human history when the virtue of an entire nation is in jeopardy, when the will of the whole people is approaching the point where it desires evil, and laws could be made which would compel men to do evil as the wicked kings in the Book of Mormon did. ![]()
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