Category: Violence
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blood Atonement (2)
Brigham Young teaches that there are some “sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world” and therefore they would be “willing to have their blood split . . . to save them” since “the blood of the Son of God” is deemed insufficient. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol.…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blood Atonement (3)
Brigham Young teaches that if Latter-day Saints would understand how certain grave sins could jeopardize their promised exaltation they would whole-heartedly say, “shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods.”
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Heber C. Kimball Sermon: Blood Atonement
Heber C. Kimball (first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency) preaches that he “can see right through” many hypocritical Latter-day Saints with hidden sin, but that they should obtain mercy if they repent. Those who are not repentant, or whose sin is unforgivable (shedding innocent blood, or sinning against the Holy Ghost) “are…
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Jedediah M. Grant Sermon: Blood Atonement
Jedediah M. Grant (Brigham Young’s second counselor in the First Presidency) preaches that among the saints of Salt Lake City there was hardly a place “that is not full of filth and abominations,” requiring that many should “let your blood be shed . . . as an atonement for your sins, and that the sinners…
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Illinois Leaders Apologize to LDS
In an article in the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, April 8, 2004, we read: Nearly 160 years after religious persecution in Illinois launched the Mormon exodus to the West, a delegation from the Land of Lincoln met Wednesday with LDS Church and state leaders to formally extend its regrets. It was in 1844 that…
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Wanted: “One Mighty and Strong”
Continuous changes in the LDS church are accompanied by fundamentalist claims of apostasy and hopes that “one mighty and strong” leader has now arrived, as prophesied.
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Joseph Smith’s Death — (Bancroft’s History excerpt)
Illustration from Mormonism Unveiled; Or the Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee, (St. Louis: Bryan Brand & Co.), 1877 The following account of Joseph Smith’s death is excerpted from Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History of Utah, 1540-1886 (pp. 175-183). On the 24th of June Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the members of…
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1869 Murder in a Mormon Ward House?
By Sandra Tanner In 1869 three non-Mormons, part of the John Wesley Powell expedition of the Colorado River, were murdered in southern Utah. Were they killed by Indians or by Mormons? Was it due to indiscretions with an Indian woman or to mistaken identity? The Salt Lake Tribune, in 1993, printed a story entitled “Did…
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September 11th Massacre
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner September 11, 2001, will forever be an important date to Americans. On that day over 3,000 people on the east coast were killed by foreign terrorists. However, there is another reason this date will never be forgotten. On September 11, 1857, in southern Utah, approximately 120 unarmed non-Mormon men, women…
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Jesus and Joseph Smith (tract)
Although Joseph Smith is admired as a saintly prophet and even compared himself to Jesus Christ, history shows a great gap of character between the two.