MMM and its lessons

[MikeWaters]

The title is actually kind of a lie.

That is, there have been no lessons from the Mountain Meadows Massacre for the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

If pressed, a few people might be able to come up with one conclusion--don't do things that embarrass the church 100 years later.

It's frickin 2008, folks, and I am telling you there is a lesson or two in the MMM.

Who is trying to prevent members from gaining wisdom from the study of MMM? God or the Devil?

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One thing about the world, is that events repeat themselves. The same lesson is repeated years later when Juanita Brooks is threatened by an apostle with excommunication if she reveals that John D. Lee has had his membership restored.

The only difference being that Juanita Brooks did what was right, and the murderers involved in the MMM did not.

How ironic however, that a representative conflict emerged from MMM.

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I don't think it would be wrong to say that there are two kinds of people in the world: 1) Juanita Brooks, 2) the people that fought her. If you don't agree with me, well, I know what kind of person you are, in this paradigm.

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Some wise person here like PAC or Archaea is going to say, "it's much more complicated than that."

No, it is not. It is not more complicated than that.