MCB wrote:Except that the focus of those who vist the Carthage Jail is anger at those who dun'it, rather than on personal self-sacrifice. The difference is because of the victory of the Resurrection.
Not it isn't. The majority of people who visit catharge jail go there to see just where Joseph Smith was murdered. The anger against the mobs have long subsided. Or as some would claim: to see the place where Joseph was martyred.
Probably since they took out the oath of vengeance people have stopped that, yeah.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
MCB wrote:Except that the focus of those who vist the Carthage Jail is anger at those who dun'it, rather than on personal self-sacrifice. The difference is because of the victory of the Resurrection.
Not it isn't. The majority of people who visit catharge jail go there to see just where Joseph Smith was murdered. The anger against the mobs have long subsided. Or as some would claim: to see the place where Joseph was martyred.
MCB knows the thoughts of Carthage jail visitors as well as you know the the thoughts of people looking at a crucifix.
It is Carthage!! And Hamilton, and Warsaw and Nauvoo. I was raised in Hancock County, and I don't even know where that fabled jail is, because it held no significance to us. I think it is on the square, but I am not sure. Traffic around the square is one-way. It is a sleepy insignificant county-seat town.
And Joseph Smith was not a martyr. He shot first, and some suspect that they were only bounty-hunters ready to take him back to Missouri to stand charges there.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.