This is a pack of lies; partaking of the same spirit as those men in a mob, with blackened faces to hide their identities, rushed the prison where Joseph Smith was falsely imprisoned, murdered him and his brother Hyram, and seriously wounded another.
Do you know why J Smith was in jail?
charged with bank fraud
charged with burning down a news papers building after breaking up the presses
charged with other assorted theft
charged with adultery
He was not falsely imprisoned, he was not murdered, he was not a martyr.
He was shot while jumping threw the jail house window after the jail was stormed. He shot a number of people, possibly killing one, with guns that his rabid followers smuggled into the jail.
Yup I agree that that story about the martyrdom of Smith is a pack of lies.
Falsely imprisoned my foot. He got what was coming to him. Criminals usually do.
Joseph destroyed another man’s printing press. That is why he was in the Carthage jail.
He eluded disaster for years, his misdeeds getting more and more bold. Finally, it caught up to him.
You do not know your own Mormon history. Being a non-Mormon I know more about your history than you do. Joseph Smith Jr. was a crook, charlatan, polygamist, liar, thief and a fraud.
In light of your post, your screen name is not apropos.
Might try researching the fact that JS actually denied a man his Constitutional rights, then convened a puppet “court” to pass judgement with no due process involved. Then proceeded to destroy private property while acting in the capacity of “mayor” (actually, it was more like; supreme ruler, tyrant and dictator).
Why? Because the man with the printing press was about to expose JS’s polygamy, his adultery, his lying, his sending men off on “missions” so he could seduce their wives and daughters, etc. ad naseaum.
JS should have been tried, convicted then hung like the criminal he was. I regret every time this topic is brought up that the mormons were permitted the opportunity to paint him as a martyr when he was nothing of the sort, let alone a “prophet”.
"Justthetruth" on that scenario would be to tell the actual truth that Smith had two loaded weapons smuggled into him...Smith seriously wounded and killed others in that shoot-out in the jail!
Tell me, something: If you heard about a prisoner going down in a shoot-out, would you deem him an automatic "martyr?"