Way back when the Holocaust was happening...Hilter Hated gypsy's and gay people, hence the triangles they have at the holocaust museum besides just the yellow ones for Jewish people....
Indeed, the Latter-day Saint practice to provide those of a Jewish ancestry with a chance for a vicarious ordinance which from an LDS perspective will—if accepted—provide those individuals with an opportunity to receive God’s greatest reward is in every way comparable to the activities sponsored by Adolf Hitler in an effort to gas innocent men, women and children.
Given the absolute appropriateness of your analogy, we really should round up every one of those modern-day necro-baptizing Nazi’s who are seeking to destroy the Jewish nation and, well, put them in the very concentration camps that their co-conspirators built throughout Germany and Poland.
How right you are!!!
Ah, you are using intent to form the basis of your argument and being satirical to boot. Good for you. At times I have seen another function that Mormons serve, and that is one as a stop gap recipient for religious bigotry that if not channeled toward the Mormons it could just as easily be turned toward the Jews. The Mormons even receive the same rationalization for this religious bigotry hurled toward them: "You brought it on yourselves". So whether the group is condemned for the alleged misdeeds of Mormon Prophets or the actions of the Rothschilds, the reasons have a similarity.
Enuma Elish wrote:Therefore, Rollo’s comment, “Well, using DCP's logic, I guess the Jews can't count BY as ‘among their few friends in the world’” places Brigham Young in that group of anti-Semites to which Peterson alludes.
As the information provided in my post illustrates, to suggest that Brigham in anyway reflects the anti-Semitic group to which Peterson referred is a serious misrepresentation of the facts.
How so? My observation was based on BY's own words in "Christopher's" post on p. 3.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
"By and by the Jews will be gathered to the land of their fathers, and the ten tribes, who wandered into the north, will be gathered home, and the blood of Ephraim, the second son of Joseph, who was sold into Egypt, will be gathered from among the Gentiles, and the Gentiles who will receive and adhere to the principles of the gospel will be adapted and initiated into the family of Father Abraham, and Jesus will reign over his own and Satan will reign over his own." - Brigham Young, JD 12:38, April 14, 1867
Sounds like Brigham understands the Jews and their destiny alot better than you think he does. So much so he thinks we should all be a part of it.
Gaz
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
