Joseph says this "revelation" took place around 1820...well before any Mormons set foot in Missouri or Nauvoo.
So we have Harry Reid, 2007, at a BYU-sanctioned event: "They [Evangelical Christians] are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right." Joseph Smith, 1820ish: "...all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt."
Smith and Brigham Young weren't exactly spinning in their graves upon Reid continuing the Mormon acrimonious tradition of open bigotry, hostility, villification, and misjudgment.
If Mormons want to continue to this day of calling Evangelicals anti-christs, much to the standing ovation and applause of its student body and faculty, so be it. We can't stop Mormons from maligning Christians; but I would appeal to Mormons to stop maligning God's Word by saying that all Christian creeds are an "abomination" (a modern-day word for that would be "putrid").
BYU students who were present and with whom I spoke state that the BYU student body and faculty did not cheer such remarks and that the number of the brain-dead ho gave Hairy the Red a "standing ovation" was quite small.
The Deseret News is an increasingly liberal rag containing a few editorial staffers who have trips to the woodshed and unemployment office in their future, having exercised their free agency in a foolish and destructive manner...