[svcw]

Disgusting.
And people wonder why LDS (Joseph Smith and his merry band) were despised and driven out of towns and villages.

[Tennessee Nana]

And people wonder why LDS (Joseph Smith and his merry band) were despised and driven out of towns and villages.
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Even Joey Smith himself said that is why the mormon god drove them out...

D&C 98:18-19: “Behold... Iam not well pleased with many who are in the church at Kirtland; For they do not forsake their sins, and their wicked ways, the pride of their hearts, and their covetousness, and all their detestable things...”

D&C 50:4 — what Smith told the LDS church at Kirtland in May, 1831: “Behold...have looked upon you, and have seen abominations in the church that profess my name...”
“...the inhabitants of Zion are terrible...” (D&C 45:70)

Also, Smith said that the affliction, persecution and being cast out of the land of inheritance (D&C 101:1)

was because God “suffered the affliction to come upon them, wherewith they have been afflicted, in consequence of their transgressions...” (D&C 101:2)

[Colofornian]

And people wonder why LDS (Joseph Smith and his merry band) were despised and driven out of towns and villages.

Well, it may partially explain what happened in Nauvoo. It doesn't "let off" the Missourians re: what happened over several months' time in 1834 and 1838, as they would not have known about Smith's early escapades at that time. Some of those Missourians are the same families who caused trouble in Kansas in promoting slavery in the 1850s.