Just before the release of September Dawn, (opening has been pushed to August 24th as of today), The Mormons decide its time to finally talk about the matter and admit involvement, by publishing (and spinning) their own version of events in the July issue of the widely distributed Ensign magazine, to which thousands of faithful members subscribe to, and treat with the same reverence as the BoM.
For those members who have NEVER heard of such an event, it's going to be an eye-opener for sure. They should wonder why the church never openly spoke of this event before, instead preferring to let it fade into memory and the back annals of history, just like polygamy and racial prejudice against Blacks obtaining priesthood authority.
For those who have heard about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but vehemently denied that the church had any involvement, and it was ALL Indians... surely you must realize by now that limiting yourself to church sources for information will never give you the full picture, and believing everything that issues forth from Church Authority lets them control your world view and your beliefs. You might as well hand over the keys to your house too...
The church is afraid of this movie. The information on the Mountain Meadows Massacre is all over the web and is just one Google away...
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Why do the distributors of this film keep pushing back the release date? Who is pressuring them to stiffle this movie until AFTER the spin doctors can mold and shape the minds of the LDS faithful? Damn it, I want to see this movie....but if they keep shuffling it around and delaying the release until the LDS homeboy, Mitt, gets elected, what the hell's the point of bringing it up at all?
How about waiting until September 11, 2007 to release it...150 year anniversary of the worst act of civilian terrorism in the country before the OK city bombing of the Murrah building. Sure, they'll admit fault, they'll cry a little, they'll make reparations and claim that Brigham faltered as a prophet for a short time, but it will all be excused, swept under the rug, and claims of "we already answered these questions long ago, stop persecuting the church!!" will be posted on every internet bulletin board before the damn movie ever hits the screen. Way to go, Christopher Cain, your movie will be worthless by the time anyone sees it. May you never make one single dollar of "prophet" if you bowed to the LDS church demands in ANY way.
I wonder if they're going to start owning up to the other dark things in their past, or is going to take more illuminating Mormon movies to get them to tell the members what they're really all about?
Greetings CV Rick, glad you could stop by! Thank you for your comment, I would like to try to answer that question with a question:
How many movies would it take?
The Godmakers sure didn't help the cause for truth, and served as the first example of anti-mormonism for the members to be wary of.
Anyway, they approach EVERYTHING as if it is old news, it has been answered time and time again, its not worth rehashing, etc, and most members have never heard of such things like MMM or Helen Mar Kimball, or Blacks being denied priesthood authority IN THE FIRST PLACE. So, it places blame right on the member, AGAIN. First, by not being knowledgeable about something that has been answered and dealt with in the past, and then for asking questions that are deemed 'redundant and stupid' because of the church's insistence that they HAVE resolved these issues already many times over. The 'lack of faith' card comes into play whenever the uncomfortable questions are asked, and each member is placed in the difficult position of either accepting trite one-liner answers to these issues, or searching out the REAL background on these questions for themselves and reaching their own conclusions.
I always said that the apologist boards at FAIR and the Maxwell Institute were the best pro-LDS sites to help Mormons realize the boundaries of their existence and make a break for it, or resolve to live inside of it. Just like the Truman Show, once you realize that you live in a bubble, you'll do just about anything to get outside of it. It's the realizing that's the tough part.
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