That's all I ever need to know about Mormonism.
I recall once driving through Utah and stopping at a state or county park campground late at night ... it was a very creepy place and we were awake all night and left just at daybreak...and as we pulled out, we saw that it was on the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
A truly horrible, horrible thing. Settlers on their way West were justifiably afraid of the Mormons, who had already left a trail of fear behind them on their way to Utah. They would move into small towns and attempt to take them over, violently if need be,to carry out the “prophecies” giving them other people’s land and resources.
My favorite is when Mormons describe the attempts of the townspeople to fight back as “anti-Mormon predjudice.” Hah. The Muslims see it the same way in their religion.
And THIS fellow was the ONE who did it ALL!!!
"I am a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do not believe everything that is now being taught and practiced by Brigham Young.
I do not care who hears it. It is my last word - it is so.
I believe he is leading the people astray, downward to destruction.
But I believe in the gospel that was taught in its purity by Joseph Smith, in former days.
I have my reasons for it.
"I studied to make this man's [Brigham Young] will my pleasure for thirty years.
See, now, what I have come to this day!
"I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner." (Lee enunciated this sentence with marked emphasis.)
Excerpted from --> http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leeexecution.html
He must have been a REALLY fast reloader!
My great great great grandfather John D. Lee was executed for his part in her murder.
I sincerely apologize on his behalf and on behalf of my former religion.