SIDNEY RIGDON'S SALT SERMON – JUNE 17, 1838
Preaching about Mormons who disagree with Smith: "Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall the earth be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men … If the country cannot be freed of these men in any other way, I will assist to trample them down or erect a gallows on the square of Far West and hand them up as they did the gamblers at Vicksburg, and it would be an act at which the angels would smile with approbation." References here.
SIDNEY RIGDON'S JULY 4, 1838 SERMON
Preaching about Gentiles: "Our cheeks have been given to the smiters, and our heads to those who have plucked off the hair. We have not only, when smitten on one cheek turned the other, but we have done it again, and again, and again, until we are wearied of being smitten, and tired of being trampled upon … But from this day and hour, we will suffer it no more … and that mob that comes in us to disturb us, it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them til the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us; for we will carry the seat of war to their own houses and their own families, and one party or the other shall be utterly destroyed ... We this day then proclaim ourselves free, with a purpose and a determination that never can be broken – No never! No never!! No never!!!" References here.
Following Rigdon's speech, the crowd led by Smith broke into wild cheering and then shouted in unison with a thunder that carried over the prairies: "Hosanna, hosanna to god and the lamb!"
SMITH'S OCTOBER 14, 1838 DECLARATION OF WAR IN MISSOURI
"If the people [of Missouri] come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion by the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Quran or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us – Joseph Smith or the Sword" – Joseph Smith, Jr. History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167.
Maybe that's what we have been doing. In LDS speak “bashing” means “the quoting of our works by outsiders”...
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This is very much TODAY's news!!
Old A-dim-nut-job of IRAN Saber Missile rattling about how he will ATTACK anyone who DARES to try and stop his plans!