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Joseph Smith's Assassination The Death of the First Mormon Prophet
Suite 101 .com ^ | Oct 18, 2007 | Shawn Landis

Posted on 05/04/2008 5:03:17 PM PDT by restornu

The events that took place after the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor led to the assassination of Joseph Smith by an angry mob.

Joseph Smith is vilified by people who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or the other Restorationist groups that split off from the main organization after its founder's death. But those who belong to what is termed the Restorationist Movement remember him as a martyr, and the prophet's assassination lives on as an important moment in their faith.



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1 posted on 05/04/2008 5:03:17 PM PDT by restornu
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To: SkyPilot; Elsie

PING


2 posted on 05/04/2008 5:05:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu

I believe it.


3 posted on 05/04/2008 5:12:54 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I recall the tune of an old western called Maverick. Since I don’t remember the words, and only the tune, I offer only the South Park version: Dum-Dum-de-dum-dum. Dum Dum Dum. Dum dum dum dum dum dum.... You inspire me.


4 posted on 05/04/2008 5:18:15 PM PDT by discipler (I haven't like John McCain for years. I can't stand Hillary. And Obama is a wonderful snake.)
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To: restornu

The bullet that killed Joseph Smith on the night of his assassinationwould hit him as he attempted to go out a window to draw attention away from the people who survived the event.

I suppose that is one way to see it.


5 posted on 05/04/2008 5:27:56 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: restornu
The bullet that killed Joseph Smith on the night of his assassination would hit him as he attempted to go out a window to draw attention away from the people who survived the event.

Joseph Smith was fleeing the situation like a man caught in bed by his lover's spouse. - lol

6 posted on 05/04/2008 5:30:11 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: tet68

The bullet that killed Joseph Smith on the night of his assassinationwould hit him as he attempted to go out a window to draw attention away from the people who survived the event.
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The false prophet Joseph Smith was looking out for his own skin as usual..


7 posted on 05/04/2008 5:31:05 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Murdered in cold blood by a crazed lynch mob. Like a lamb to the slaughter. Joseph Smith, the Prophet of God, murdered in cold blood.


8 posted on 05/04/2008 5:32:11 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: restornu
But those who belong to what is termed the Restorationist Movement remember him as a martyr, and the prophet's assassination lives on as an important moment in their faith.

I trust that the "Restorationist Movement" includes Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church?

9 posted on 05/04/2008 5:35:22 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Murdered in cold blood by a crazed lynch mob. Like a lamb to the slaughter. Joseph Smith, the Prophet of God, murdered in cold blood.
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Nope, never happened...

The false prophet Joseph Smith had a gun slipped into jail to him...

He was not a martyr...nor was he murdered in cold blood or otherwise...

He tried to shoot his way out of jail..

He murdered at least 2 men before some other man fired back at the murderer Joseph Smith in order to stop his murderous attack..

It was a fair right on the part of the man who stoped Joseph Smith...

Joseph Smith was the cold blooded murderer...


10 posted on 05/04/2008 5:37:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: restornu

Bump for later read


11 posted on 05/04/2008 5:39:02 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: Tennessee Nana

Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to blaspheme his name and tell lies about him.


12 posted on 05/04/2008 5:42:10 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Saundra Duffy; Tennessee Nana

Sorry, she is right. He did have a gun and did shoot back. It wasn’t murder. It wasn’t martyrdom. It was a mob, and Joseph was trying to escape out the window when he was shot both inside and outside the building, but he did shoot back.

He was also a false prophet and the true blasphemer in this conversation.


14 posted on 05/04/2008 5:54:36 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Tennessee Nana

evidence?


15 posted on 05/04/2008 5:55:58 PM PDT by RC51
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To: restornu

His biggest mistake was in writing polygamy into the Mormon canon. It really was just to justify his own sexual appetites. Smith and later his successor Brigham Young ran their domains as dictators.

Polygamy was/is fundamentally incompatible with western democratic values. It inevitably gives rise to evil behavior and the resemblance of the FLDS communities to Wahabi islamist extremism is no accident.


16 posted on 05/04/2008 5:56:14 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Saundra Duffy

“...The matter of their having one six-barrelled and one single-barrelled pistol with them when assailed was because friends on parting from them left these fire arms with them as stated in a former chapter, under circumstances alike honorable and justifiable. These arms offered but a meager defense against the overwhelming odds of the assailants; nor did the Prophet use the pistol left with him until he had seen his brother shot to death from his side—not until he had looked into the dead face of that brother, calm but bullet-torn, did the war spirit native to his race—his revolutionary ancestry—rise within him and impel him to the conflict at the door where muskets were belching fire and death, where he stood for one splendid moment as some avenging spirit returning the fire of the mob. Much less or far more than mortal man must he have been not to have done what he did. And what he did in that supreme moment of trial and death, does not depreciate him in the esteem of Christian men, nor make him less a martyr to the mission given him of God. President McKinley’s and Roosevelt’s United States secretary of state, John Hay, was right when he said Joseph Smith put up a “handsome fight” in the prison; but it in no way detracts from the solemn fact of his martyrdom, and emphasizes the glory of his manhood.” (Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol.2, Ch.59, p.316 - p.317)”

You’ll have to accept the fact that many of us do not believe he was a Prophet. You will also need to accept the fact that he didn’t die without a fight. I’m not blaming him for fighting, but fight he did. Maybe he was trying to save his life, or maybe he figured to take some with him.


17 posted on 05/04/2008 5:56:26 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (McCain expects the democrats to concede when they realize how pure and noble he really is...)
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To: restornu

“The events that led up to the first Mormon prophet’s assassination “

Was he assassinated twice?


18 posted on 05/04/2008 6:05:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
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To: Mr Rogers

I don’t care what you believe. Let each man/woman believe as he/she will.

I believe Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and your revisionist history is a lie. But you believe your version and will stake your life on it; then you are for lynch-mob justice.

I love my Church. It is the true Church. Jesus Christ is the Head. We have a Prophet today, a Prophet for the whole world, but only a remnant recognize him.


19 posted on 05/04/2008 6:09:03 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Blogger

He had a gun and shot back, but the evidence indicates that his assailants were only wounded.


20 posted on 05/04/2008 6:09:21 PM PDT by elmer fudd (Fukoku kyohei)
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