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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
Your comparison between Joseph Smith Jr. being killed by a mob and Mitt Romney not getting votes for being a Mormon strikes me as nutty.
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It is nutty. However, I believe the initial intent of this thread was to point out the complexity of the question of whether Joseph Smith was a martyr. My intent is to embrace the notion that it is not a complex question … and to highlight the irrationality that accompanies the all too prevalent attitudes of many evangelical Americans towards Mormons.
If we can agree that there may be many people who will not vote for Romney simply because he is Mormon, then we can come to an agreement that many in the mob participated in the murder simply because Jospeh Smith was a Mormon.
This is in part a question of motivation. Honestly, the probing in this thread gives the average person far too much intellectual credit. They were a mob! A mob does not think, a mob acts … that’s what makes a mob so dangerous!