While it is called a church in Nephi’s vision we must understand that this organizaționale would take as it’s supposed doctrine Catholicism or capitalism or environmentalism or humanism or hedonism or atheism with equal fervor. We may recognize it as a religion or we may fail to do so but either way it is the same. The public doctrine of the organization may be spiritual, commercial, or secular. The truth is that it will pursue whatever course seems most likely to bring the gold and silver and silks and scarlets and harlots that the organization actually desires.
As a child I was taught that this was the medieval Catholic Church and while that must have been true at some points in history it would be unfair to many devout Catholics and unwise to those who believe the idea to think that this great and abominable church in our day would be so categorically definable.
Leave a Reply