“Remembrance and the Past”

“Remembrance and the Past” April 9, 2016

 

The first temple at Nauvoo
The original temple at Nauvoo, Illinois, in roughly 1847, three years after the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith by an anti-Mormon mob and shortly before it was destroyed by arson. (Wikimedia Commons)

 

It is said that, back in the glory days of the former FARMS, under my reign of terror there before the 2012 Purification, our periodicals and books — particularly what was then called the “FARMS Review” — were essentially long strings of pseudoscholarly ad hominems, slanders, and personal insults linked together by occasional periods and commas.

 

This article, which considers the question of how Latter-day Saints should view their own past, is a typically vicious product of that mercifully bygone era:

 

http://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1463&index=6

 

 


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