Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 2

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  • Mormons saw Indians as instrument of vengeance for Joseph's murder.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

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  •  Author's quote: [Joseph Smith] plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls....
  •  [ATTENTION!]
  • Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.

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  • Innuendo about death of federal officials
  • "Another troubling tendency of Bagley’s is his habit of almost—but not quite—accusing Mormondom of criminal acts for which there can be no answer because no real facts are given. Federal officials “died mysteriously” (39), and Wakara died “probably of pneumonia but perhaps from poison,” all following conflicts with Mormons (33)."[1]
  •  [ATTENTION!]

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  •  Author's quote: [missionaries] were called to prepare the Indians for their role in the

impending apocalypse....

  •  [ATTENTION!]

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  • Indians regarded by Mormons "as a weapon God had placed in their hands."
  •  [ATTENTION!]
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