American Senator Posts Elder Neal A. Maxwell Speech!

In this episode the Ward Radio crew reacts to a clip Senator Mike Lee posted just hours ago from Elder Neal A. Maxwell’s October 10, 1978 BYU Devotional “Meeting the Challenges of Today.”

Maxwell delivers one of the most clear-eyed diagnoses of our time: we are entering “a period of incredible ironies” where a maximum effort will be made to establish irreligion as the state religion — a new form of paganism that uses the very freedoms of Western civilization to shrink freedom while rejecting our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.

The hosts break down:

How secularism is succeeding in virtually establishing unbelief

The paradox of tolerance and why religion is being relabeled as “harm”

James Lindsay’s insight that unofficial religions (wokeism/atheism) always have the upper hand because they can receive state sanction

The twisting of the First Amendment and the attack on church tax exemptions

Why this conversation is especially core to Latter-day Saint history and the ongoing fight for religious freedom

Maxwell’s haunting question: If we allow a secular church “shorn of traditional and divine values,” where will we turn for inspiration in the crises of tomorrow?

This 1978 talk feels like it was written for right now.

Drop your thoughts in the comments — is this the prophetic warning our generation needs?

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