Perhaps Alma recognized after the mission to the Zoramites and its social fallout that society had reached a new state of equilibrium. The Zoramites had been divided between those (mostly poor) who were converted and resettled in Jershon and those who began to associate with the Lamanites. Surely not all Nephites were members of the church but all who remained Nephites were peaceful with the church after Alma’s various missions.
America has been similarly unsettled since at least 2016—likely since 2010 and possibly since 2000 or even 1998. I’m wondering what it would take for us to reach an equilibrium again where our political differences were no longer cause for violence and hatred but simply competing visions for the welfare of the nation.
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