What do you think the world needs more of right now?

When I was a kid growing up in the 60's there was a popular song that handled this questions as well as it can be handled:

 What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.

--Jackie DeShannon

This hasn't changed since the 60's.  Of course, in the LDS Church we talk about "charity," or the "pure love of Christ."  To me it is beyond interesting that this is what Mormon and Moroni, two war generals, choose to focus on as their people are annihilated.  

We have bits of hate that we cling to, and we have little ways by which we justify it.  We say to ourselves that the suffering of the sufferer is justified because it is the consequence of sin and or stupidity.  There is no such room for hate in the pure love of Christ, otherwise he would not have performed the Atonement.  This is just exactly the loop hole through which we all would have slipped when the Savior cried to his Father, "let this cup pass from me."  

We are apt to say that we love this sinner, but we hate the sin.  Of course the sentiment on the surface is logical, but in reality, this is just another ruse we use to justify not loving the sinner.  

I will not go on.  Enough--perhaps too much--has been said in LDS circles about charity and what it means.  We have become like the Pharisees who endlessly debate the "weightier" doctrine, but still offer our alms, not to bless the sufferer, but to be seen of men.  Interestingly, the Savior's love extends even to the Pharisee.  The Pharisee is free to claim it if he will.  "My grace is sufficient for all men who humble themselves before me."  

I remember being taught that the Savior's words on the cross, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do," were directed at the Romans, but not at the Pharisees, as if the Atonement were unavailable to some.  I don't mean at all to preach that forgiveness and repentance are cheap.  The Pharisee's access to the saving graces comes through humility, a thing foreign to one of that mindset.  And foreign to us until we have compassion for the Pharisee.  

Enmity, the opposite of love, is increasing in the Earth.  Satan has sworn that he will gather the treasures of the Earth and then use enmity to carry out his reign of blood and horror.  We have seen him in his attempts to do this in WWI and in WWII.  The world now has the weaponry that could annihilate us.  Before long, our resolve to love rather than to use force and violence will be tested.  The treasures of the Earth have been amassed.  The desperate struggle to have more than the next person is resulting in worsening conditions for the poor. And rather than responding with compassion for the poor, we are directed by those involved in this Church of the Great and Abominable, Spacious Building that the poor have brought their misery upon themselves and will only learn to be better if we let them suffer.  Don't be confused; this is the Church of Satan in all of its splendor.  

The only answer to this growing hatred is love.  If the Savior's offer of the greatest love of all is not sufficient to turn us from our way, if we do not hear Lehi's invitation to come to the Tree of Life, then we are doomed to the fate the Book of Mormon warns us of--annihilation.