I agree with you about the way Hollywood goes out of it's way to dredge up anything negative about any protestant religion. I suspect that there are lots of atrocities in the dark corners of all the religions. The problem with protestant religions is that we don't have special interest groups threatening lawsuits. The screenwriters rewrote 'The Sum of All Fears' so that the villians wouldn't be from the ROP. That's when I decided to find out the slant of any given movie before making a choice to pay money to see it.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,400009171,00.html
Saturday, May 18, 2002
New facts on guilt in Mountain Meadows Massacre
By Carrie A. Moore
Deseret News religion editor
New evidence uncovered by scholars researching the Mountain Meadows Massacre shows that regional leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southern Utah had greater culpability in the event than previously acknowledged by most LDS authors.
In a strikingly candid presentation of the events surrounding the massacre, three LDS Church employees told participants at the annual meeting of the Mormon History Association on Friday that "a willingness to face the facts" is vital to "true reconciliation."......
....... In the "spirit of frankness and healing," Turley has teamed with Glen Leonard, director of the Museum of Church History and Art, and Ronald Walker, a professor of history at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History at Brigham Young University, to produce a book — "Tragedy at Mountain Meadows" — he said will deal with previously unpublished materials relating to the events. All three addressed the gathering at the Doubletree Hotel in Tucson.
"Open, candid evaluation of that tragedy can produce catharsis, a cleansing spiritual renewal and healing," Turley said, adding the authors will "present the evidence as we find it — honestly, openly and candidly." Once the book is published next year by Oxford University Press, the group plans to "open new sources we have discovered for public use."
We are all still waiting for the book to be published. I wonder what happened?