Does anyone have any interesting information of the history of the Latter Day Saints?
They seem pretty out there, but other than some stupid stuff like Donny Osmond and that South Park episode, they aren't really discussed much.
Would love to discuss it with some Mormonfags, if any even exist.
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Blake Reed
Jack Fisher
Don't fuck with mormons, they're fucking crazy
Colton Adams
my brother converted to Mormonism.
He also happens to be insane so there's that.
Eli Jenkins
Mormons genocided a bunch of white settlers in the west while being dressed as Indians, look up Mountain Meadows massacre. Some of them also settled in Mexico a long time ago and are now armed to the teeth and fighting against the cartels. Robert Jay Matthews, the nazi guy from the Order who robbed banks and killed a bunch of kikes in the 1980s was also a Mormon, and generally A LOT of the armed preppers / survivalists in the west are Mormons. As a whole they're pretty batshit crazy.
Austin Long
I live across the river from Nauvoo. I know a lot of Mormons.
In 18wheneverthefuck Joseph Smith found gold tablets left by the Angel Moroni. He translated them from an ancient pre-Columbian language with the help of divine interpretation.
They contained an entire third testament set in pre-Columbian times with Hebrew new world settlers and fictional native tribes and histories. Jesus even spends the three days between death and resurrection in the new world.
It's an odd movement.
Jayden White
I once talked to this Brazilian Mormon once and from what I remember him telling me was there is a heaven, and like a super heaven. The super heaven is for the most pious and devout Mormons while regular heaven is for everyone else and the not so pious and devout Mormons.
That's all I remember unfortunately.
Dylan Ross
>Some of them also settled in Mexico a long time ago and are now armed to the teeth and fighting against the cartels
Could you give more details on this? Sounds interesting
Sebastian Hall
>Mountain Meadows massacre
>By this time the emigrants were running low on water and provisions, and allowed some approaching members of the militia—who carried a white flag—to enter their camp. The militia members assured the emigrants they were protected and escorted them from the hasty fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attacked the emigrants and killed all of them that they thought were old enough to be potential witnesses to report the attack.
wtf i hate mormons now
[spoiler]seriously though what the actual fuck was wrong with them[/spoiler]
Oliver Flores
Paranoia over the State and Federal Governments trying to kill them. Something that was justifyed a bit given that 10 years earlier there was literarlly an exeuctive order to exterminate them
>The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace--their outrages are beyond all description. If you can increase your force, you are authorized to do so to any extent you may consider necessary. I have just issued orders to Maj. Gen. Willock, of Marion county, to raise five hundred men, and to march them to the northern part of Daviess, and there unite with Gen. Doniphan, of Clay, who has been ordered with five hundred men to proceed to the same point for the purpose of intercepting the retreat of the Mormons to the north. They have been directed to communicate with you by express, you can also communicate with them if you find it necessary. Instead therefore of proceeding as at first directed to reinstate the citizens of Daviess in their homes, you will proceed immediately to Richmond and then operate against the Mormons.
Nathaniel Watson
-They had a quasi secret society/vigilante group that were also used as secret police called the Danites
-Joseph Smith was a third party candidate in the 1844 presidental election however his campaign was cut short after he was lynched by a mob 7 months before the voting took place
-A splinter group of Mormons took over Beaver Island and ruled it as a monarchy
-They spent a good deal of money in the 20th Century buying what turned out to be forged documents that would have embarrassed the church if they were made public.
-Mormons believe in continuous revelation and to this day have active prophets. Which is how they were able to modify their stance on Polygamy
Yep Mormons believe there are three levels of heaven Celestial, Terrestrial and Tilestial
Lucas Bennett
Lord above, that sounds like something an even crueler Joshua Graham would order.
Wyatt Phillips
I don't care for them
it's funny, they managed to start a slew of indian wars because of one of their wagon trains losing a cow that wandered into an indian camp, while also later slaughtering a wagon train of non mormons
fuck those guys
Ayden Cooper
I like Mormons. They're interesting.
Man, that makes the Massacre a lot more understandable.
Levi Richardson
pity it didn't' succeed
Eli Campbell
Mitt Romneys family members, they are romneys
Elijah Cook
A interesting way of looking at anti mormon sentiment in that time is to compare it to anti semitism.
The Mormons were disliked because they were very insular and lockstep when it came to supporting other Mormons. Hence they always voted in a unified block and worked together to dominate trade and business which gave them vastly larger influence than their small numbers would ordinarily allow. Combine this with a different but simmilar religion and you get the perfect recipe for conflict.
Elijah Richardson
Of you want to hear the hilarious story of how an offshoot in Michigan set up his own "Kingdom" and then later got raided by a bunch of drunk Irish Michiganians who fucked his conclave up just because he was a weirdo check out James Strang
Oliver Mitchell
no joke, this is exactly what hasidic jews do in new york
thisamericanlife.org
Jace Lewis
That's what Jews do everywhere. It's why people don't like them.
Dominic Smith
Its a very effective method of action and doubly so in societies where the majority do not.
Dominic Gomez
it's a great way to get yourself justifiably hated
Jack Myers
Without a doubt, however modern Mormons seemed to have found a nice balance in the US.