(January 12, 2021 at 2:59 pm)Five Wrote:(January 12, 2021 at 2:30 pm)Ranjr Wrote: What is the Mormon spin on the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
It is not taught in church. In church, even in college, I was always taught that Mormons were unfairly persecuted everywhere they tried to settle, that many of them innocently died for their beliefs. And everything that is contrary to the church narrative is just Satan influencing people to lie about us and draw members away from God's truth. There are several things I learned when my shelf broke that I can hold up as "THIS, this is one thing that makes it impossible for me to ever be a Mormon again." The Mountain Meadows Massacre is one of those core items simply for the fact that I had to learn about it outside of the church. A horrific event, to be sure, but why hide it if the church is true? The omission reveals the lie.
And make no mistake, despite the church coming out with a Gospel Topics essay on the topic, 1. Those topics are not taught in church, are not promoted, and the subjects are not openly talked about, so, nobody knows they're even there and 2. It is a measelly three or four paragraphs of "woopsie, our bad! Sorry!" Their "regret" means NOTHING if the church leaders don't come out and actually condemn the event or teach about this awful part of their history in Sunday school. But then again, if they did that for everything in church history, only the most foolish and delusional would still believe.
@BrianSoddingBoru4
Oops! Sorry, I just checked back to page one to see if I missed anything and I did. I hope my reply to Ranjr is also satisfactory in response to your question.
A very satisfactory response. Thank you.
Boru
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