I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of everything the Mormons did in the nineteenth century if we have enough threads.
Meantime I’ll be sure to distrust every Mormon cop or soldier I meet. After all, they might go on a massacre or something.
/sarcasm
Larry, it's real simple. I've got Lds family/extended family. Easy to love people.
By & large, Lds are externally great people. I'm sure the Fancher party had few fears wanderin' thru Southern Utah in 1857. They thought the worst was still ahead. But that's what deception does; it sets people up for false security.
(Surely you've encountered enough crime victims who thought they were "secure" - yet weren't?)
Who was Jesus "harshest" on, Larry? (Religious legalists)
Who did Jesus compliment on outward behavior? (Religious legalists...he said unless your righteousness exceeded the Pharisees, "you would in no wise inherit the Kingdom")
Who did Jesus rail against their inward state? [Again, the Pharisees...compared them to cups clean on the outside; filthy on the inside; and to whitewashed gravestones (white on the outside; dead men within)]
So the key thing to "distrust" among Mormons is their deceptive false "gospel" message. And I'll I'm asking is that you view Mormons the way you might view Jehovah's Witnesses. Often sincere people trying to do right, but abiding by the wrong religious authorities.