That's certainly a way to look at it, but I would say that puts an unnessessary limit on the scriptures.
Having positive and negative examples to compare potential leaders to is ESPECIALLY important in a system where we choose our representatives, and even moreso in an election year where we are preparing to make that choice. Actively supporting a person who acts like the quintessential example of a poor ruler just because he has the right letter after his name is makes no sense to me.
And I am much more concerned at the idea that one shouldn't be able to cast stones at elected leaders than I am that such actions would lead to "mob action" - mostly because I don't really see the connection between them.
OK, I'll be blunt.
I would oppose this comparison to Obama or to Clinton, even though my opinion of THEM is very low. I'm very conservative.
I would be just as adamant that this is a very dumb thing to do (comparing the scriptural King Noah to them) EVEN THOUGH I DON'T LIKE THEM and think that as presidents, they were pretty bad. Well, Clinton was more personally horrific than professionally so, and Obama was more professionally bad than personally so, but the point is, I didn't like them as presidents and I would object strenuously to comparing either one of 'em to King Noah.
I'm not going to hold back on my criticism of you doing that comparison with Trump just because I approve of his job as president...and I do, very much. Personally? I don't like him a whole lot, though he is amusing. What he IS, is effective as POTUS.
My opinion of what you are doing is that you aren't comparing him to King Noah because you see the similarity between them. I think you are comparing them because you are liberal, don't like Trump, and like most of the liberals out there, you will attach any negative thing you can to Trump whether it's true or not...like those who call him 'anti-Semite" or "racist" or all the other politically correct insults they can come up with. You have just added one the others don't know about.
In fact, just as I would not equate Obama, Carter, Johnson or Clinton with King Noah...even though I didn't like ANY of them,
And the only comparison you can possibly make between King Noah and Trump is that Trump built very high hotels and called them "Trump towers?" You certainly can't call him 'lazy.' You can't accuse him of taxing everybody to death, and you absolutely can't claim that he is ruining the economy of the nation. He used HIS OWN money to build stuff, as well. Nor has HE burned anybody at the stake.
As for wives and concubines, er....Clinton, anybody? In the OVAL OFFICE????
And even so, I don't compare him to King Noah, though he does come somewhat closer to the mark, as President.
No sir. The only reason you are making this comparison is because you don't like Trump, you are buying into the left wing spin about him, and want to find the nastiest insult you can, true or not, to use against him.
You know....like your compatriots seem to like to call him "Hitler" and "Racist" and "homophobe" and "anti-semite."
And it DOES NOT BELONG in a discussion of scripture in the Mormonism forum, any more than the same comparison to Democratic leaders, or foreign leaders, does. Political discussions belong elsewhere, in my opinion.