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As brainwashed cultists, Mormons and Muslims have a lot in common and I do intend to insult the former with that comparison.

Nevertheless, apostates from Mormonism are not usually threatened with death.

Unfortunately, most Mormon apostates seem to leave their cult and go on to become atheists. I blame this on the twisted notions of the Godhead inculcated in them since childhood. There’s nothing at all loving and compassionate about the Mormon “Elohim”.

BTW, as a Catholic, I don’t like my faith being called “The Great and Abominable Church” by those hayseed GA’s in Salt Lake City. Sorry, but Rome the Eternal City has SLC skinned a mile no matter how much you refer to Utah as “Zion”.

“They have among them a company, considered true Mormons, called the Danites, who have taken an oath to support the heads of the Church in all things that they say or do, whether right or wrong. Many, however, of this band are much dissatisfied with this oath, as being against moral and religious principles. On Saturday last, I am informed by the Mormons, that they had a meeting at Far West, at which they appointed a company of twelve, by the name of the ‘Destruction Company,’ for the purpose of burning and destroying, and that if the people of Buncombe came to do mischief upon the people of Caldwell, and committed depredations upon the Mormons, they were to burn Buncombe; and if the people of Clay and Ray made any movement against them, this destroying company were to burn Liberty and Richmond.

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The Prophet inculcates the notion, and it is believed by every true Mormon, that Smith’s prophecies are superior to the laws of the land. I have heard the Prophet say that he would yet tread down his enemies, and walk over their dead bodies; and if he was not let alone, he would be a second Mohammed to this generation, and that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic ocean; that like Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was, ‘the Alcoran or the Sword.’ So should it be eventually with us, ‘Joseph Smith or the Sword.’ These last statements were made during the last summer. The number of armed men at Adam-ondi-Ahman was between three and four hundred” (Affidavit of Thomas Marsh, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve, October 24, 1838, History of the Church 3:167).

It isn’t difficult to understand why the local non-Mormons in the area were fearful of Joseph Smith and his followers.

***Unfortunately, most Mormon apostates seem to leave their cult and go on to become atheists.***

Sad but true. years ago, I heard Madaline Murray O’Hair, on the Larry King Live show, say that the best atheists were former Mormons and Catholics.

This was before she and her kin took the dirt nap.

I like your name. Beat me to it! I have to use the alternate.