Well, I’ve got to tell you that I don’t look at LDS Anarchy that often – maybe once a month or so. I visited there much more often last year when my fellow blogger Anthony Larson was posting his essays there before he got his own blog. Now I don’t go there quite so often. There are a couple of reasons why:

There is a definite “end of the world is coming right around the corner” slant to the articles posted there. I am convinced that yes, we are living in the last days, but that the coming of the Savior is not for a long time yet. One of the prophecies is that the gospel must be preached in all the world and that just hasn’t happened yet and won’t be completed for quite some time.

Second, they are proponents of the hollow earth theory and I just don’t go in for that. It’s bad enough that they are big time into Planet X (I confess that I am somewhat interested in the ideas of Planet X), but this hollow earth stuff is just too far out there for me. I’ve read about it and have just concluded that it is not good science and worse theory.

In addition, many of the visitors there are into predicting dates of earthquakes in selected places and forecasting other catastrophic world events. That’s nuts. Nobody can put dates on these things. Yes, I believe that we are going to be in for some very terrible cataclysmic events, but until we see the “one grand sign” of the coming of the Son of Man, we just can’t say when stuff will happen. That’s all guesswork.

Finally, although I do believe that when the catastrophes of the last days come upon us that the world will be in chaos, meaning that there will be anarchy and a dissolution of government, I am not so sure that the way anarchy is presented in the writings there is anything more than fear mongering. Yes, we need to be prepared but there is just too much of a sense of “it’s time to flee to the mountains” in there.

I hope this is making sense. I have no intention of offending the writers over there. I think they understand that they are not your typical LDS blog, nor do they try to be. However, they are well known in the LDS blogging world as they comment on a lot of other blogs so they have a large number of visitors and a good number who leave comments.

When I do visit or read an essay in Google reader and go read the comments, I have enjoyed some of the dialog that is commentary on scripture and doctrine. But some of the commentary tends to be speculative in nature. No, a lot of it is speculative, but that’s the beauty of an open forum that they promote there. It doesn’t matter how far out your ideas are, you can comment and not be deleted.

I suppose you could say that LDS Anarchy is not the site for those looking for the orthodox or the typical LDS viewpoint on life. It’s interesting stuff, but I’m not so sure that they are all that interested in making sure that what they talk about can be tied back to the doctrines of the restoration as revealed to the prophets of this dispensation.

And that’s my two cents worth.

I think I will keep the things he talks about in my heart, but before I go on believing anything I’ll check with Heavenly Father first

Jia: You guys work hard on your blog. It’s good to see that the readership is growing. Keep it up and thanks for the link to the FHE blog. I’m checking it out. It looks like it would rank #31 on the group blogs. I’m adding it.

I currently only contribute to Modern Molly Mormon (and contribute is a loose term since I run it more than actually contribute LOL) I used to contribute to Normal Mormons as well, but stopped when my plate got a little too heavy.

Another good one I love is http://family-home-evening.blogspot.com/