Look up The Hawns Mill Massacre and other ‘Christian’ acts toward Mormons before you speek about what early Saints went through.
Mountain Meadows was wrong, but your rendition of reasons is worse..
Really??
I guess that old, "Sticks and stones..." thing ain't what it used to be.
I refer you to Sidney Rigdon’s Salt sermon, a declaration of war on the people of Missouri. There were gentiles in the audience who left to alert the locals.
Ok; let's just cut to the chase; the water has already gone over the bridge.
Now; just WHY should a person choose MormonISM over classic Christianity; for this arguing over he said-she said is going nowhere.