Yet, you are unable to refute one point I made, RetardedGunnerySgt.
So wait... hold on. Are you saying the Angel Moroni misled J. Smith when he told him dark skin was a curse from God, and that it was okay for him to **** all those 14-year-old girls? Because that seems like that was some pretty bad advice.
No, it wasn't. Bigamy was illegal in the US from the English Common Law we inherited upon independence. In fact, the ONLY reason why it became a legal issue and so many states had to pass stricter laws against it was because of the Mormons.
Again, buddy, you are a bit confused. Yes, 14-year-olds got married when they got knocked up by other 14-year-olds. Back in the day, they didn't have birth control and abortion was a dicey proposition. A 34-year-old cult leader marrying a bunch of them was still considered pretty ******* creepy at the time, which is why THIS happened.
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And not a one of them was found guilty!!!
No, they didn't. The German American Bund, before it was outlawed, had less than 25,000 members. Even German-Americans were horrified by what Hitler was doing to "the Old Country".
Um, guy, those crowds were propaganda. A lot of Germans thought Hitler was a buffoon, but kind of like Americans today with Trump, they just went along with it.
First the truth of the death of Joseph Smith. (Not Joseph Fielding Smith)
Joseph was held in the 2nd floor of the jail. And Several men went upstairs to murder Joseph Smith.
The history follows:
Museum Treasures
While we do not know the name of the man who owned this powder horn, we do know the names of several men who helped organize and carry out the plan to kill the Prophet Joseph.
When we speak of the mob that killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage Jail, we sometimes forget that each of these men had names and lives. One of these men, from the militia in the neighboring town of Warsaw, Illinois, commemorated his participation in the killings on this horn, which carried his gunpowder: “Warsaw Regulators, The end of the Polygamist Joseph Smith kilt at Carthage Jail June 27, 1844.”1
While we do not know the name of the man who owned this powder horn, we do know the names of several men who helped organize and carry out the plan to kill the Prophet Joseph. As two commentators have stated, “The murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at Carthage, Illinois, was not a spontaneous, impulsive act by a few personal enemies of the Mormon leaders, but a deliberate political assassination, committed or condoned by some of the leading citizens in Hancock County [Illinois].”2
Joseph Smith had faced opposition, suspicion, and persecution most of his life, from the time he first saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, at age 14. As the Church grew, opposition shifted from mockery of the religious beliefs of Church members to distrust and fear of the Church’s—and Joseph Smith’s—growing political power.
In Nauvoo, Illinois, conflict that had simmered for years came to a boil when Joseph and the city council ordered the destruction of the
Nauvoo Expositor press. The
Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper published by apostate members of the Church who were opposed to plural marriage, a practice that had been growing in Nauvoo. The paper argued that Joseph Smith “had too much power, that polygamy was whoredom in disguise, and that the Nauvoo charter should be unconditionally repealed.”3
The members of the Nauvoo city council, which was led by Joseph Smith, felt that the paper was slanderous and ruled it a nuisance. By their interpretation of the rights granted to them by the state in the Nauvoo charter, the council believed they were legally justified in destroying the press.
Upon hearing of the paper’s destruction, residents of neighboring cities Carthage and Warsaw held mass meetings, declaring the act tyrannical.4 A judge in Carthage issued an arrest warrant for Joseph and Hyrum, charging that destroying the press amounted to inciting a riot.
Others did not trust the law to resolve the situation. Thomas Sharp, editor of the
Warsaw Signal, wrote, “We hold ourselves at all times in readyness to co-operate with our fellow citizens . . . to exterminate, utterly exterminate, the wicked and abominable Mormon leaders.” He even called for an attack on Nauvoo, declaring, “Strike them! For the time has fully come.”5
Hearing these threats, Joseph Smith was reluctant to go to trial in Carthage and sought resolution from nearby judges. He also declared martial law in Nauvoo to protect the residents in case of an attack. This act angered neighbors even further, and citizens charged him with treason.
Joseph called upon Governor Thomas Ford to resolve the conflict. The governor promised to protect Joseph and Hyrum if they would answer the charges against them in Carthage. The protection he offered, however, came from the “Mormon-hating” Carthage militia, who offered only “token resistance” to the men attacking the jail.6
Of the approximately 100 men involved in the attack that killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith, only nine were indicted. Four immediately fled, including a Mr. Gallaher, who, according to one witness, was the first to shoot Joseph Smith.7 Only five men were brought to trial: Thomas C. Sharp, publisher of the
Warsaw Signal, an anti-Mormon newspaper; Levi Williams, colonel and commanding officer of the 59th Regiment of the Illinois militia; Mark Aldrich, commander of the Warsaw Independent Battalion; William N. Grover, captain of the Warsaw Rifle Company; and Jacob C. Davis, state senator and commander of the Warsaw Cadets.
The prosecution argued that even if these men did not fire a shot at Carthage Jail, “they did direct the arm that did strike the fatal blow.”8 While many people believed them to be guilty, no one was convicted for the murders. After they were acquitted, each man continued his life as a respected citizen in his community.9
While many people hoped that the death of Joseph Smith would also mean the end of the Mormons, today millions of Church members around the world join in singing, “Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven! / Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain. / Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren; / Death cannot conquer the hero again.”10
Again, I happened to be engaged in 1964 to Jutta Calbus of Berlin, Germany. I broke it off back in the United states with regret.
She was born when the Nazis controlled Germany. Her parents were living in Germany prior to the Nazis and also under the Communists. At that time I was not willing to be confrontational with her or her parents. She was the only child. She was 22 I believe when we got engaged and I mailed her rings.
She published the announcement in Berlin and told me when we talked on the telephone.
Now there is abundant film proving that the German citizens adored Hitler. Der Fuhrer means the leader. Heil Hitler is simply Hail Hitler. That is more common in Europe.
Haven't you hailed your leader Biden?
There definitely was tons of propaganda in the world at the time of Hitler. Still you see it now when it comes to Putin and Zelensky. We have Americans devoted to Putin. I mean at least tens of thousands of them. They accept Putins propaganda
I am a good many years your senior. I was born before Hitler conquered Poland. And as a child we heard daily about World War 2.
You know Democrats history and they adore FDR., But that man gets tons of blame for the USA getting mixed up with his world war. He baited the Japanese and told the jews go **** yourself when they came near us from Germany on the Ship St. Louis.
Who do you think gave FDR the idea to build in the USA? He saw what Hitler did in Germany. And Germans went from super poverty before him to well off after he took power. Germans did not want him to go to war. But they had it so good at first nothing they could do could stop it. They were accustomed to believing in Hitler as you are in believing in Democrats presidents.
In May 1939, the German liner
St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The
St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. Ultimately, 254 St. Louis passengers were killed in the Holocaust.