(This is especially for Patrick's father--I'm sorry, but I have forgotten your name sir--, since I have no other way in which to reply to his comment about my previous post.)
What I meant by traditional family values was certainly not those that are practiced by the LDS faith or really any specific branch of Christianity, but rather those who have become so dominant in the infamous evangelical movement--I will call it a movement and refuse to recognize it as anything more than the grossest perversion of the teachings of Christ. (While I believe in no religion in particular, I believe that all religions [at least all of those which I possess even the smallest amount of knowledge of] are inherently good and that we can all benefit from them.)
What I meant to emphasize here was that this issue of violence has been relegated to a secondary concern by "these people" (referring to any of various evangelical leaders: Colson, Robertson, Falwell (especially Falwell), Dobson). Essentially what they are doing is taking the issue of violence and proposing a cure to it that let's them enforce absurd ideological beliefs--the three components which I expounded upon in the previous post.
Maybe in the end, my remarks on the evangelical movement were nothing more than tangential tirades meant to elucidate my profound dislike for the movement, the leaders, and everything that they represent.
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I see I misunderstood. THEY are positing a connection between those 'pillars’ and violence -- not you. Sad.
Really, God has given only two 'hacking at the roots' solutions to violence. (1) Love the Lord, and (2) Love your neighbor as thyself.
The quote I gave in the last comment pretty much lays out the 2nd one. There is no greater insight into the 1st one than that found in Chapter 7, verse 33 of the book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price, when Enoch asks God how he can weep over that world filled with violence.
33 And unto thy brethren have I said, and also given commandment, that they should love one another, and that they should choose me, their Father; but behold, they are without affection, and they hate their own blood;
That part that says "that they should choose me, their Father" always gets me choked up a little. Being a father myself I can feel a little of what God must have felt.
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