Brethren Quotes
This passage was quoted by Colonial Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop in A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630.
Having endured centuries of near slavery and discrimination, 70,000 Irish people signed this petition urging American-Irish immigrants to understand the similar plight of African-Americans and to join together with abolitionists. Irish immigrants were nevertheless reluctant to join the abolition movement because the movement was often tied to anti-Catholicism and many feared that the emancipation of Blacks would increase competition for the low-paying jobs immigrants held.
The Second World War placed the Mormons in a dilemma whereby they had adherents on both sides of the conflict as was the case with the Catholic Church. Positions the church took on the behavior of the belligerents could cost the church its position and influence especially in Germany. The Catholic Church was more careful of offending the Nazis and did not speak out much against the worst of the atrocities. The Mormons in contrast saw the Nazis as the agents of Satan determined to exterminate the Jews so that they could not return to Israel which under Mormon (and some Protestant) prophesy was necessary to occur before the Second Coming.
The Christian Crusaders then believed, like many Muslims even in modern times, that the person who dies in Battle defending God and the Faith shall ascend immediately to paradise. The Muslims threw in many virgins to go along with the ascendency, but the basic idea was the same.
