Hello everyone and welcome to the Girls Camp podcast, Patreon, Girls Camp Unplugged.

I'm your host, Haley Rawl.

We have a doozy of a subject matter to tackle today.

I have been down a rabbit hole yet again.

We are talking about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The first time I ever heard about

the Mountain Meadows Massacre, it was right before I left on my mission, and I must have

heard somewhere something about this massacre, and I had never heard of it before. So I googled it.

And I remember looking at the Google

search, clicking on one article, and within a few sentences of reading it, I felt a bad feeling,

which in retrospect, I now think was just, why did I not know this? This feels really crazy and

significant to my faith. But at the time,

I thought, oh, this is a bad feeling trying to tell me that this is anti-Mormon in heavy

quotes literature. And so after reading like a quick two-sentence summary, I shut my computer.

And I tried not to think about it again until leaving the church

in my deconstruction of Mormonism. I knew broad strokes what the Mountain Meadows Massacre was,

but very broad strokes. And it wasn't until reading this book, none left to tell, and then doing

a deep dive in tandem tandem that I really internalized

what this event was, how horrific it was, incredibly horrific, and also all of the Mormon factors

that were at play. I knew that Mormons were the one who perpetrated the violence, but I didn't know

really the context at all. And learning about it was just so devastating. And I think a really

important example of what can happen when there is blind obedience to leaders of a religion,

blind obedience to a certain religious god.

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