Mountain Meadows Massacre 9/11
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deacon blues
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Mountain Meadows Massacre 9/11
We must not forget Utah's very own 9/11 tragedy, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which occurred 168 years ago.
God is Love. God is Truth. The greatest problem with organized religion is that the organization becomes god, rather than a means of serving God.
Re: Mountain Meadows Massacre 9/11
Could this be one of those Nephi-Laban stories in which God told the people of Cedar City to murder the men, women, and older children of the American wagon train lest the Saints become idolatrous and disobedient to the will of the Brethren? The boon of the wagon train possessions was just a sidenote and not a prime motivating factor.
God was sorely wrought. Enough so that when the US Cavalry ran across the bones strewn in the desert, they gathered up what they could find and built a burial cairn. Later on, President Brigham Young ran across this grave cairn and ordered it destroyed, uttering the words, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ... and I have taken some."
Now you might read this and think, "What psychotic monsters these Mormons were", but you must remember they were on a mission from God. These mass murders and grave desecration all had heavenly sanction straight from Salt Lake City.
God was sorely wrought. Enough so that when the US Cavalry ran across the bones strewn in the desert, they gathered up what they could find and built a burial cairn. Later on, President Brigham Young ran across this grave cairn and ordered it destroyed, uttering the words, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ... and I have taken some."
Now you might read this and think, "What psychotic monsters these Mormons were", but you must remember they were on a mission from God. These mass murders and grave desecration all had heavenly sanction straight from Salt Lake City.
Good faith does not require evidence, but it also does not turn a blind eye to that evidence. Otherwise, it becomes misplaced faith.
-- Moksha
-- Moksha