Did Joseph Smith, Jr. (founder of the Mormon Church) love his enemies?
I have to vote no based on what I have read about Joseph Smith Jr. in the past and also from what I found on lds.org. I went to lds.org thinking I would at least find Mormon apologetic claiming the love Joseph Smith Jr. had for his enemies….but I was unable to find it. To be fair, there are many places on lds.org that talk about loving your enemies, however NONE of them that I found are attributed to Joseph Smith Jr. So, while he certainly did not claim to love his enemies, or act like he did, the LdS church is at least advoacting this Biblical principle. Below are two quotes taken from lds.org. The first is Joseph Smith Jr. speaking of his enemies telling them “woe unto them” and asking God to unleash his anger, fury and sword upon the enemies of Joseph Smith Jr and the Mormons. The second quote describes how Joseph Smith Jr burned down a printing press for supposedly printing “anti-Mormon” litterature. Both of these quotes (plus the many others I found on lds.org) go to show Joseph
