That will be difficult since this massacre was carried out by Mormons.
What do you want us to say? They were all peace loving, Christians?
"That will be difficult since this massacre was carried out by Mormons.
What do you want us to say? They were all peace loving, Christians?"
Yes, the massacre had Mormons involved in it. There are a lot of bad things that happen that have members of groups involved. There are some very interesting cases involving American Indians, where Christians were involved. That is not my point.
No current member of the LDS church was involved. Mormons get bashed here on FR quite frequently, and I was trying to caution people not to blame current Mormons for historical events they were not involved in.
Every group has some skeletons in its closet. Christians are not exempt from that statement, yet bashing Christians for actions taken by some Christians in the past is not proper.
It's not quite that simple. A number of the pioneers were openly bragging and taunting that they were parts of the mobs that had murdered, raped and pillaged Mormons back in Missouri and they they would do so again given the opportunity.
Isn't it interesting that films are made about the Mountain Meadows massacre, but none about Hans Mill.