Wow, a religion with a sordid history it wishes it did not have, how distinct to Mormonism that is. /S
Pretty effective when the church has controlled access to a good part of the historical documents and forbidden access to them by outsiders.
Too bad the Internet came along and is filled with documents that aren't inaccessible to the public.
Well we have heard fron the Romaney campaign...
You wrote:
“Wow, a religion with a sordid history it wishes it did not have, how distinct to Mormonism that is. /S’
You’re getting something wrong here. It is not that other religions do not have dark episodes in their pasts. The thing that makes the LDS stand out is that it has effectively wiped out knowledge of many of those dark episodes from the minds of their members. I have encountered LDS missionaries who knew less about LDS history than I did and I am no expert at all!
As a Catholic, and a Church historian, I know all about the dark episodes in the Catholic Church’s past. Most of those dark episodes are remote, many downright medieval, in origin so it takes extra effort to learn about them. For Mormons, however, the history of LDS is NEW. It all happened within just the last 170 years - all of it. And yet many average Mormons know little.