I have just watched this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473700/ and I never knew that the Mormons had engaed in such an atrocity, just another example I guess of religious zealots going OTT, darn am I glad that when I left the JW's I chose to be done with relgion once and for all and so the light that there is no God etc.
September Dawn
by Hipraptor 3 Replies latest social entertainment
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Read about what the mormons did to get kicked out of Independence, Missouri
The Mormon War is a name sometimes given to the 1838 conflict which occurred between Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and their neighbors in the northwestern region of the U.S. state of Missouri. This conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Missouri Mormon War to differentiate it from the Utah Mormon War (also known as the "Utah War") and the lesser known Illinois Mormon War.
The specific dates of the war are from August 6, 1838 (the Gallatin election battle) to November 1, 1838 when Joseph Smith surrendered at Far West. During the conflict 22 people were killed (3 Mormons and 1 non-Mormon at Crooked River and 18 Mormons at Haun’s Mill).
The conflict was preceded by the eviction of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri in 1833. In 1831, Smith had proclaimed that the county was the Biblical Garden of Eden and that Mormons should establish the City of Zion there. However, the "old settlers" objected to the growing political power of the Mormons, as well as their belief in abolition and the divine destiny of the Native Americans, whom they called Lamanites.
All of the conflicts in the Mormon War occurred in a corridor 100 miles to the east and northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.
As a result of the war, nearly all Mormons in Missouri, estimated at more than ten thousand, were to leave Missouri and settle in or near Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Hipraptor
It seems like the Mormons are as thick skinned as JW's when it come to challenges as I have just been kicked off one of the mormon forums for brining up this movie.
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Sadly yes it does they are worse in most respects.