World Religion Quotes
Spinoza, although brought up as an orthodox Jew, was an incredibly educated man who studied every religion that he could find information about. Observing that the adherents to each believed it to be the one valid religion, he tried to get others to widen their horizons. He was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Jews, the Catholics and the Muslims.
The Second World War placed the Mormons in a dilemma whereby they had adherents on both sides of the conflict as was the case with the Catholic Church. Positions the church took on the behavior of the belligerents could cost the church its position and influence especially in Germany. The Catholic Church was more careful of offending the Nazis and did not speak out much against the worst of the atrocities. The Mormons in contrast saw the Nazis as the agents of Satan determined to exterminate the Jews so that they could not return to Israel which under Mormon (and some Protestant) prophesy was necessary to occur before the Second Coming.