“President Spencer W. Kimball issued the following warning: ‘When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God. … We forget that if we are righteous the Lord will either not suffer our enemies to come upon us—and this is the special promise to the inhabitants of the land of the Americas (see 2 Ne. 1:7)—or he will fight our battles for us’ [‘False Gods We Worship,’ 6]. President Kimball did not say that we should never revert to a military solution, but he connected the military with a spiritual perspective” (Bassett, “Four Faces of Pride in the Book of Mormon,” 23).