[Colofornian]

From the article: D. This Mormon leader said he received a revelation from God telling him to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints because they had “gone deep into error and blindness.”

So the Lds themselves had apostatized claimed this Mormon leader, eh?

From the article: G. In a fiery and memorable sermon, this leader declared a “war of extermination” against non-Mormons.

Well, what do you know? A Mormon leader who provoked the locals by declaring a "war of extermination" vs. non-Mormons. (Good thing Lds leaders haven't been like Muslims...or so we're reminded over & over again on these threads)

From the article: E. Speaking of the sinful actions of some Latter-day Saints, this leader publicly called for a place to be designated where the blood of covenant-breakers could be shed.

Well, Jimmy Buffett sang about Maragaritaville...and this Mormon leader was tickled red to talk about blood-letting at his designated Blood-Atonementville.

From the article: F. According to the Law of Adoption practiced in the early Mormon Church, this man was sealed to someone who was later convicted of mass murder.

(Ah, nothing like mass murderers in the Mormon eternal family)

From the article: C. He accused his wife of attempting to murder him by putting poison in his coffee.

(Ah, now we know where the real anti-Mormon sentiments against coffee came from!)

From the article: H. Hosting and participating in séances and automatic writing, this Mormon leader fully embraced the “spiritualist underground” operating all throughout Utah.

(And here we keep finding out more occultic stuff about Mormonism & its leaders than ever before...you just keep writin' in those journals, Mormons...that way the 22nd century can likewise see how occultic some of you were)

[allmost]

How well should I know them?

[Elsie]

A wild and crazy bunch!

[I_Like_Spam]

I don’t under this one:

>>B. This leader was sealed to four hundred unmarried women ancestors in a single day. <<

Identifying 400 women of past centuries who were giving birth out of wedlock is difficult enough, but finding 400 who were actually one’s ancestors too would seem impossible.

[K-Ben-K]

There are ways to state a truth in a way that it becomes a lie.

Since I like stock car racing I will use this story to illustrate.

A Mormon and an Anit-Mormon ran two car, ten lap grudge race.

One headline of the outcome:
Mormon wins by five car lengths.

Another version of the race.
Mormon comes in a very poor next to last, Anti-Mormon finishes a respectable second place.

Ben

[Zakeet]

4.President Sidney Rigdon - G. In a fiery and memorable sermon, this leader declared a “war of extermination” against non-Mormons.

Trick Question

The person who developed the quiz was referring to Rigdon's famous July 4, 1838 sermon where he said:

Preaching about Gentiles: "Our cheeks have been given to the smiters, and our heads to those who have plucked off the hair. We have not only, when smitten on one cheek turned the other, but we have done it again, and again, and again, until we are wearied of being smitten, and tired of being trampled upon … But from this day and hour, we will suffer it no more … and that mob that comes in us to disturb us, it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them til the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us; for we will carry the seat of war to their own houses and their own families, and one party or the other shall be utterly destroyed ... We this day then proclaim ourselves free, with a purpose and a determination that never can be broken – No never! No never!! No never!!!"

However, on October 14, 1838, Joseph Smith preached:

"If the people [of Missouri] come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion by the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Quran or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us – Joseph Smith or the Sword" –History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167.

Further, on September 15, 1857, Brigham Young issued his proclamation wherein Utah was essentially declared independent from the United States, and was placed by Young under his martial law.

Thus Answer G applies to Men 4, 5 and 8.

If you consider the impact of their statements, Smith's sermon led to the Missouri Mormon War and the deaths of roughly two dozen individuals. Young's proclamation triggered the Utah Mormon War and the deaths of about 150 (or about 270 if you include the innocent people who perished the Mountain Meadows Massacre four days before the announcement). Rigdon's sermon, while technically in the middle of the Second Mormon Civil War with the Danites raging against both the gentiles and their fellow Mormons, did not directly lead to any known casualties. Thus it can be argued that Answer G most correctly applies to Man #8.

[allmost]

I am no Mormon here, I find polygamy despicable. You leaving me on this thread you started is perhaps worse. Enjoy. :)

[montag813]

It’s all well and good for Mormons to remember their past. However, it is their PRESENT leadership, and its central role in passing the Utah Amnesty law HB116 which should trouble ALL Mormons, and cause them to demand resignations and changes in their current leadership.