Deception? You mean suggesting that the simultaneous U.S. invasion on Utah may have something to do with a sense of panic by its people, and may have pushed some over the edge???
How brilliant of an analysis in not recognizing external factors due to extreme religious bigotry.
You really are a pharisee in Christian clothing!
teppe, teppe, it is not religious bigotry to warn someone who is on the broad road approaching the wide gaet to hell that they need to turn around. Turnabout, teppe, before it is too late.
The Mormons knew for at least a week, maybe more, that the Fancher Party was not the the U.S. army trying to invade. After the Fancher party held off the Mormons for four days, the Mormons deceived them under a flag of truce promising safe passage, split up the survivors, then murdered most of them.
OK, the Fancher party did not have the pass that Brigham Young decreed to travel through Utah. Except that decree was not made public until September 15, when the Massacre (under the flag of truce and promise of safe passage) was over on Sept. 11, four days after they were dead.
How can you cloak yourself in religious piety, accuse others of religious bigotry, while justifying a massacre of innocent people by ignoring the facts?