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   Fancher party's and Mormons' backgrounds and the Mountain Meadows massacre

   For the decade prior the emigrants' arrival, Utah Territory had existed as a theocracy led by Brigham Young. ... Brigham Young led the majority of Mormons westward in 1846 to avoid civil war.
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   Blood atonement

   When Brigham Young led the Saints from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake valley beginning in the mid-1840s, he and his followers intended to establish a theocracy independent of the United States, where there would be no distinction between church and state.
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   War hysteria preceding the Mountain Meadows massacre

   For the decade prior to the Fanchers' arrival there, Utah Territory existed as a theocracy led by Brigham Young.
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   Utah War

   The Bannock led a raid on the Latter-day Saint mission of Fort Limhi in February 1858. ... August 2 1857: Brigham Young publicly discusses the possible secession of the Mormon theocracy from the United States and the establishment of an independent kingdom (Young 1857b, p. 98).
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   Blacks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   Many historians state that the Utah Territory was a theocracy in 1852 (when territory leaders sanctioned slavery) because the territory was led by church prophet and president Brigham Young, and because territory policies were determined by church leaders.
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   Theocracy

   Taken literally or strictly, theocracy means rule by God or gods and refers primarily to an internal "rule of the heart", especially in its biblical application. ... However, under the Compromise of 1850, Utah Territory was created and Brigham Young was appointed governor.
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   Mountain Meadows massacre

   For the decade prior to the Fancher party's arrival there, Utah Territory existed as a theocracy or theodemocracy led by Brigham Young.
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   Mormonism and violence

   The concept was first taught in the mid-1850s by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) during the Mormon Reformation when Brigham Young governed the Utah Territory as a near-theocracy. ... The widely-publicized massacre was a mass killing of Arkansan emigrants by a Mormon militia led by prominent Mormon leader John D. Lee, who was later executed for his role in the killings.
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   History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   Following the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young stated that the Church should be led by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (see Succession Crisis). ... In the earliest days of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Jr. had established a form of religious communism, an idea made popular during the Second Great Awakening, combined with a move toward theocracy.
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    Criticism of the Latter Day Saint movement

    Bruce McConkie has asserted that "this doctrine can only operate in a day when there is no separation of Church and State and when the power to take life is vested in the ruling theocracy as was the case in the day of Moses." ... ↑ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol 4 p. 53

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Fancher party's and Mormons' backgrounds and the Mountain Meadows massacre,
• Blood atonement,
• War hysteria preceding the Mountain Meadows massacre,
• Utah War,
• Blacks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
• Theocracy,
• Mountain Meadows massacre,
• Mormonism and violence,
• History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
• Criticism of the Latter Day Saint movement