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

Page Claim Response Author's sources

367

  • Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."
  • Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132.  [ATTENTION!]

378

  • The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

379

  •  Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....
  •  Prejudicial or loaded language
  •  [ATTENTION!]