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To: D. Long who wrote (128636)	7/30/2005 10:48:09 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793781

Mountain Meadows wasn't religiously-motivated, BTW. But you probably knew that, and think the jihadis aren't religiously motivated either. It damn well was religiously motivated. To say otherwise is merely to advertise your ignorance of Mormon history. Mormon life in totality was religious life. At the time, the Mormons were paranoid about all non-Mormons and they expected others to threaten their way of life. Remarkably similar to radical Muslims today. The difference is the US government did not rush in to crush them at that time. Instead, IIRC it was decades later before a trial resulted in the execution of one Mormon. The Mormon church to this day dances around the issue, for obviously painful reasons. Mormons in fact did adapt to external pressure on issues they considered religious, such as polygamy, and later (1980's?) on racial issues. Today, other than the specific oddities of their religion they fit fairly well in American culture, and are quite prominent in political life. BTW, I think that particular massacre was the largest of pioneers in the West?