Really? This Mormon writer bills Butch Cassidy the Mormon as "wildly successful"????
From the Mormon publication article: A Mormon outlaw? It seems like it should be an oxymoron. Latter-day Saints take pride in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, and virtuous, and in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. Cassidy may have struggled with that last bit, but small things in his mild manner like a commitment not to drink alcohol or gamble ring familiar to practicing Mormons. He may have left the Church, but the influence of his Mormon upbringing never completely left him.
Oh, no doubt, his Mormon influence never left him! As for Cassidy "may have struggled" with sustaining the law, boy, this Mormon writer does carry a gift for understatement, doesn't she? Hmm...how else could she have played down a serial criminal's behavior? (Oh read on)
From the Mormon publication: Born in 1866 in Beaver, Utah, as Robert LeRoy Parker to pioneers Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies, Cassidy came from faithful Mormon stock. It is likely he was baptized into the Church at the age of 8, but by the time the time he was 13, he had stopped attending almost entirely. The posited reasons for his decline in faith range from blaming the example of his father who also only attended meetings sporadically to a brush he had with the law where he was unjustly accused and treated poorly by officials. Certainly, though, it was the influence of his friend and mentor Mike Cassidy that played the largest role. Whatever all the contributing factors were, Robert changed his name to protect his family and left home at 18 to become one of the most well-known bandits in the Old West.
Ahh...doesn't that just make you tingle inside...to the point of burning your bosom???
Well Elder Cassidy did ride a bike in that movie.
You need a new hobby dude.
'Twas interesting that I searched to find out who the "other Mormon outlaws" are who make up the contents of the book highlighted in the first and last paragraphs...and yet...couldn't find out who they are.
Who are they?
Are these Mormon criminals of the Old West sanitized and promoted by the Lds church just like Cassidy apparently was -- given the treatment we see in this article?
Who are the others? Murderers like Orrin Porter Rockwell? Bill Hickman?
And what about the Mountain Meadows Massacre killers? (You bet your life they are not included!)
Ted Kennedy was a Catholic..
.....”Ahh...doesn’t that just make you tingle inside...to the point of burning your bosom???”
Are you anti-christ? I’m shocked that you so recklessly ridicule the Holy Ghost and his mission as attested to in the bible as well as the book of mormon.
I’m sorry if you have no dealings or understandings of the Holy Ghost; but just because you don’t .....doesn’t mean that others do not either.
If you can’t trust the Holy Ghost, as Christ recommended for finding truth .... who can you trust? Emperor Constantine?
hahahahaha
Why because he was a thief, liar, charlatan and had many many women at his beck and call?
Wait. Did he not pay his taxes? Harry Reid ants to know...
i know someone who found an old dinner knife in a fallen down cabin near the hideout that they loving claim was the one butch cassidy et his peas with
Latter-day Saints take pride in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent,...”
I can’t believe you let that statement be posted.
*** though there are many claims that he faked his death. Whether or not he died there remains a hotly contested debate to this day***
I used to have a book WHERE THE OLD WEST STAYED YOUNG about the Brown’s Hole area.
There was a section in it about Cassidy and a woman, who met him after his “death”, claimed he died in Johnie Nevada.
Two words: Mountain Meadows
What?!?
You mean you didn’t know about this????
I mean, you always come on with those looooooong posts you keep on your desktop like you are the be all and end all of Mormonism, that I thought that, I mean, surely you know all about this too.
I guess this must really mess up that election you were so sure you had.
Sheesh, I’ve known about this for decades. It was on a movie I watched as a teenager in high school in California back in the ‘60s.
As I recall, and my memory is pretty shot these days, Billy ‘the Kid’ is on that list too. Matter of fact, I bet a goodly portion of the bad guys of the “wild west” were ex-Mormons or anti-Mormons. Like many of those on this forum that claim to also be ex-Mormons or anti-Mormons.
We cannot all be perfect, ya know. Oh, that’s right, some here think they ARE perfect and their election is sure. Must be nice.
So he went to Beaver Liquors one day and became a man. Then he robbed the place blind?
I shot the law,
but the, law won...
Why not!!??
He's DEAD, so he'd probably been dunked, and ANYone with half a brain would accept the MORMON offer in the afterlife!
I hear that Zombies will be the next big batch of folks to turn to Mormonism.
They merely just have to die first.
(Or become a missionary...)
