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Comment Internet is king (Score 1) 469

Google is a tool that 50 years ago nations would have gone to war to have access to. And it's freely available to every human on the planet. Google/the internet in general is the thing mankind has created with the most potential to bring peace to the world. We can address the side-effects as we go.

Comment Re:idiotic politically correct fears indeed (Score 1) 1223

So why do you think the mormons were so persecuted? Does your version of reality really include the possibility that the people around wherever the Mormons were just hated the truth so much they wanted to murder Mormons? The idea is ridiculous. The people around the mormons were REACTING to the mormons building an army and the rhetoric from Joseph Smith about establishing God's Kingdom throughout the whole earth. Yea the people did awful things, but the mormons were doing awful things to them as well, and not just in reaction to what was being done to them. Had the mormons lived peacefully with their neighbors there would not have been problems. Modern day Mormons don't seem to be having any trouble, because Mormonism has become a peaceful religion.

Comment Re:idiotic politically correct fears indeed (Score 1) 1223

To be fair, all that stuff happened to the Mormons because of how they were acting towards their neighbors.

Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered not by an angry "anti-mormon" mob but by his own people for trying to get John Johnson's 15 year old daughter to be one of his plural wives (some time before the polygamy doctrine was revealed). This, by the way, he did several times successfully - marrying several teenagers women who were already married to other men (as you can confirm on familysearch.org). It wasn't hard to get a bunch of people to help tar and feather Joseph because they had all given their money to Joseph's Bank of Kirtland which promptly failed and suddenly there money was gone (it had gone to pay Joseph's debts).

Further, Governor Boggs was against the mormons because Joseph Smith had prophisied the untimely demise of Boggs just before one of his destroying angels showed up (Porter Rockwell) and shot him four times in the head (he lived). The Mormons were also playing dangerous political games and Joseph Smith (and Hyrum) were both shopping around the "mormon vote" simultaneously making friends and enemies all over the state. To top it off, Joseph Smith taught that they were to come into god's inheritance by the sword and began terrorizing and stealing from their neighboring towns.

The Haun's Mill Masacre was a really unfortunate incident, but not nearly as bad as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

It's not at all surpising you don't hear the REAL history in Sunday School, but it does allow Mormons to walk around and play the "victim card" every time their history is brought up. Unfortunately, people who actually have a clue about what happened just laugh in their faces.

P.S. Feel free to disregard the above true history of events as "anti-mormon" propaganda. I'm sure the church's version is completely unbiased.

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