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Applebome warns that if the Southern doctrines now sweeping through America--states' rights, low taxes, and quasi-fundamentalist Christianity, among other things--do for the country what they've done for Dixie, we may all be in trouble.
Those who defended the institution, as provided in the accepted Mormon religious doctrines of the time, cited its social benefit of caring for all the women and children in a society in which the available men had fallen victim to the hardships of settlement and warfare.
In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Wouldn't tolerance be easier if it only required agreement to disagree peacefully rather than demanding actual sharing of religious doctrines at some level of abstraction?
It is not because of the doctrines of communism.