Another 30 miles or so northeast on country roads thru Daviess County brought us to the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman. A short drive on a gravel road and then a very short hike brought us to the overlook. There were a few picnic tables and restrooms and a couple of descriptive plaques.
Joseph Smith declared that this was the land where Adam dwelt and that at the second coming of Christ there would be a large priesthood meeting with Him. There certainly will be plenty of space. The valley is a tremendously large tract of farmland. Quiet, peaceful, with a gentle breeze. Again, a pleasant, forgotten place on the American prairie in a nation that has long forgotten these frontier battles.
It is always disappointing to me that the descendants of those stripped of their civil rights, warred against, captured and tortured because of their desire to found a society based on their religious beliefs have not been very vocal in standing against those that would once again use fear-mongering, torture and long captivity without trial as methods to suppress those that they supposed to be our enemies but would never allow to defend themselves in a fair court of law. One rather prominent descendant even said as part of his political campaign that he would double Gitmo. Ironically, apparently the "intelligence techniques" used at Gitmo come straight from the Communist Chinese methods of the Korean War. I wonder how how Eagle Forum/John Birchers reconcile that. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html?ref=todayspaper. How very strange. Particularly when one the political faction pushing for these actions are almost literal descendants of the very factions that drove our people from Missouri and Illinois. If Joseph’s revelation was right, that all these things would be for experience, then I think God will hold us accountable for not using that experience.
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