This is fascinating stuff. Much here I did not know, including reading the ridiculous allegations against the Saints. Wow - just wow!!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_Order_44
I had a lead at Boeing who was as deluded as the ignorant pigs were in Missouri back in 1838 - regarding the topic of receiving personal revelation.
Of course, they received the whip end of the Law of the Harvest when the North put the screws to the Missourians in the Border War with General Order Number 11 during the (un)Civil War.
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All of those farms they stole were mostly laid waste. Filthy, nearly sub-human pigs ended up far worse off for their "something for nothing" attitudes than had they not stolen to get ahead. But then, they owned slaves and lived off the backs of others' efforts...... What human filth. I have no desire to meet them on the other side. Nor Hitler, nor Stalin or others who are just slightly above the level and standing than the devils who have no bodies.
I was just reading today a book on Adam-ondi-Ahmon. I think I spelled it right. Anyway, it was talking about Boggs and the mobs who pushed the Saints off their lands they had just purchased for a dollar and a quarter for 10 acres or so of land all around and including Adam..... they had built 30 plus homes and had 30 plus new families to build homes. They Militia/Boggs stole the land right out from under them. But, is now currently back in the LDS hands. What they did to those poor saints is criminal beyond criminal. I have relatives that lived through the different parts of LDS history and their stories are stories of heroics and stamina beyond..... one in particular is of a great ... grandparent in Missouri and the mob had beat him within an inch of his life when his wife (grandma) and eight children came out and stood between the mob and beaten grandpa and pleaded for his life to be spared. She won! They just road off. When he was better they journeyed to Winter Quarters and stayed. I was not raised in the church and didn't join until I was 22. Our family was RLDS now Community of Christ. I'm am thankful to all those pioneers! Those who never gave up and built the church up to what it has become today!
ReplyDeleteThe claims against the Saint's is completely absurd, all the negative epithets thrown about, perfectly describe the Missourians - a backward, ignorant pack of reprobates who came west to take advantage of whatever situations they could come upon.
ReplyDeleteTo evade the Mobs, my Great Great Grandfather had to dress himself as an elderly woman with nightcap and all, and lay in a bed with the baby, fortunately he had very little beard except for his mustache that had to be shaved to pull off the charade. Mobs came in, and naming my grandfather by name searched the house and had no interest in disturbing the old woman laying in bed with a baby and left disappointed.
Later on, his wife lost her life due to exposure, undoubtedly, when the Saint's were pushed out of Nauvoo in the middle of winter. The actions taken against the Saint's in Missouri may be quite dramatic, but pushing them out into the swampy areas of Illinois and later the forced winter march out of Nauvoo were horrendous. I have no idea, but I am sure most families suffered at least one death per family through these trying events - which wasn't hard to do in such a primitive conditions.