Who are the biggest Mormon murderers in our time?
Adolf Hitler does not count even though he is now Mormon with Eva Braun sealed to him. Same thing with Stalin, Chairman Mao and so many other mass murderers in the past.
Mountain Meadows Massacre murderers would be #1 - for how it was done and the total number murdered. No specific individual - a group effort.
Orrin Porter Rockwell - Brigham's Enforcer and Joe's before that. Though he failed in killing the Governor of Illinois he had plenty of others to his credit. Then the seven or so Indians in Skull Valley he questioned who did not know anything about murderers he was chasing. He killed them anyway.
A number of Utah/Mormon Indian 'wars' - Battle of Fort Utah, McBride massacre, Circleville massacre and similar.
Ted Bundy - a Mormon convert in Utah who is one of the most prolific serial killers in the USA.
The LeBaron brothers, for how they applied Blood Atonement and those followers who did their bidding.
Mark Hoffman, for the publicity surrounding his scamming L-d$,inc and its lasting legacy.
I know there are many more - so why not start a list to refer to in the future?
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SuperDell wrote:Orrin Porter Rockwell - Brigham's Enforcer and Joe's before that. Though he failed in killing the Governor of Illinois he had plenty of others to his credit.
That's 'cause he never tried.
(It was the former governor of Missouri that he tried and failed to assassinate.)
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I am just feeling picky, Hitler is not a Mormon. A ceremony in a temple does not make him a member of the church in the churches view or mine.
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Brigham Young. He murdered a bunch of native americans in the various territorial wars he ginned up as well as the mountain meadows massacre. That guy tops my list.
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Another one is Arthur Gary Bishop.
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Dr Exiled wrote:Brigham Young. He murdered a bunch of native americans in the various territorial wars he ginned up as well as the mountain meadows massacre. That guy tops my list.
I’ll agree with that one.
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It has to be Messrs Hinckley/Monson/Nelson. They could have saved millions and millions of children from starvation, unclean water etc but chose instead to build up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments instead. And they've precipitated suicides through the promotion of hate speech.
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Not exactly in our time, but the execution of Joe Hill was an international story.
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huckelberry wrote:I am just feeling picky, Hitler is not a Mormon. A ceremony in a temple does not make him a member of the church in the churches view or mine.
He and Eva Braun had their work done on eight separate occasions. They join the ranks together with Mickey and Minnie Mouse as celebrity posthumous converts.
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The Lafferty Brothers. Focus of Under the Banner of Heaven and one of them was cellmates with Mark Hofmann for a time.