Are you proud to be the first religion in US history to have started religious terrorism?
Does the Mountain Meadow Massacre ring a familiar bell?
2007-04-23 10:18:29 · 11 answers · asked by Marie 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
This is the darkest day of Mormon history.
John D Lee was scapegoat. He was killed for crime. In his Journal he wrote that Brigham Young order the hit. He admitted that he was part of the Mountain Meadow Massacre. He took the fall for Brigham Young and others.
Mormons do not know Why Joseph Smith was tar and feather. because he was sleeping with a young girl. When the father heard of this he was angry got others to help him with this. With Haun Mill the mobs had no right to do this. Joesph Smith was causing problems with gentiles in the area.
Joseph Smith is the one has blood on his hands for the people who died at haun mill.
2007-04-25 18:32:42 · answer #1 · answered by Tinkerbelle2007 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I guess the main difference between the Huan Mill massacre and the Mountain meadows massacre is that the mormons actually got them to disarm and lay down their weapons under the false pretence of helping them and then they murdered every man and woman and almost all children in cold blood when they were unarmed. Now the Huan Mill massacre there was a young boy kille din that and I am not making any excuses but the mormons would give back as good as they got in those days. So Huan Mill was a tragedy and I guess I am not making any excuses for a mob to slaughter a few mormons, but when a so called prophet of God such as Brigham Young orders a massacre of unarmed families then you have to wonder about their doctrines and teachings.
2007-04-30 06:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
May groups of various religions have don't thing in their past that were or maybe wrong. How do you define Mormons in this Massacre. Was it a proclamation by the church leadership? Or was it an over zealous group of Mormons that took the law into their own hands. I am not sure of this so called Massacre but I will look it up and do some research. But like most people who are short minded, you have also asked pointed the finger at a small group of people and labeled all Mormons for this error in judgment and killing. Do you label all Muslims as religious terrorist. I think not. What our fathers did in the past, doesn't not make the sons or daughters admit guilty for someone Else's actions.
Why do you ask this question of past ills... do you feel better now?
2007-04-23 17:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by NIck N 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you know your history...
First off, the mormon church had nothing to do with the massacre other then the people who did it were members. They were not ordered, they were a select few who got scared and did what any other human being would do when their survival is at stake. Shortly after the incident the command to not do it was finally received. The church recognizes that some of their members did it, but they don't condone what happened. This all is after threats of these people saying they will bring in an army and wipe out the LDS members in the area, Haun's Mill Massacre, their frist prophet being murdered along with others in a jail, Extermination Policy, and just the persecution of ignorant people...What these people did was animal instinct, their will to live scared them to kill. This doesn't justify the deaths of those men, women, and children, but it doesn't mean that the church secretly had it out for those and wanted to kill them.
2007-05-01 16:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I agree with you that the MMM was indeed religious terrorism, I can't agree with you that the Mormons get the dubious honor of being the first in the US to do so.
Ever read what happened at Jamestown? At other Puritan colonies? Do you know what Cortez did to the Aztecs in the name of Catholicism? (OK, not "US," but American continent)
The Mormons were just continuing a longstanding tradition: pretty much *every* religion has at one time or another committed murder in their god's name. It's par for the course.
Peace.
2007-04-23 17:24:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
*sigh*
I take it you never heard of the Salem Witch Trials, then?
And since you can't be bothered to learn all the history, why should I listen to you about the small part you decide to focus on, as you are obviously trying to promote an agenda of some sort. That is the only reason to ignore the rest of the history.
2007-04-29 12:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by Raising6Ducklings! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the terrorism started wth the mobs against the LDS church. Ever hear of Haun's Mill? The infamous Extermination Order? That one made it legal to kill a Mormon, just for being a Mormon. It wasn't repealed until 1976!
Why do all you anti's conveniently forget that the violence was AGAINST us for years before a few Mormons seemed to snap and do violence themselves?
2007-04-24 01:40:39 · answer #7 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
You make a point. One negative incident by a group is not to be excused despite decades of bigotry and oppression.
The wrongs of one portion of a group then by your reasoning fall on all members of the group. By your reasoning it is proper for the President of Iran to deny the holocaust because of the deeds of the state of Israel.
By your reasoning Koreans can't be proud of their heritage and culture because of the VT shooter.
2007-04-25 15:52:05 · answer #8 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did it take you all week to come up with that?
2007-04-24 02:37:34 · answer #9 · answered by Radictis 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol.. Not mormon but I live in Utah.. and your funny!
2007-04-23 17:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by Felicia 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋