So, What Now? Reflections on the Church SemiQuincentennial Broadcast

• Interesting point on ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’:  yes, that is very different if you think of that as the pursuit of moral happiness, or the search for meaning.  Man’s Search for Meaning.
• The Constitution as a ‘heavenly banner’ is a much different thing than the Constitution as a set of rules and procedures
• “common principles…. that promote pluralistic societies”–the more pluralistic, the less common principles there are, by defintion.  Or the more the principles become bland generalities

But what really stood out to me was the end.

they were finishing up, at least Elder Cook thought so, but apparently President Christofferson wasn’t done, because he added one last bit.

Quoting John Adams, he said that the Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and cannot work with any other.

But we do not have a moral and religious people.  We are not going to have one any time soon.  It won’t be from missionary work–neither we nor anyone else is trying the social gambles that could result in mass conversion.  So, what now?