Completely derailing these conversations like this is funny af. Whenever I run into asshole Christians, I show that I was raised by fundies by simply pretending to be infinitely more pious than whoever I'm speaking to. They never have a good answer for it, it's great.
Damn! I never knew that but I wondered if there was a connection.
Thanks!
(I mean, I knew about Utah as a state generally, but not about Zion being an intentional marker. When Palestine is free, we should ship all Zionists to Utah)
The funniest solution
Last Podcast on the Left has a pretty good series on the early Mormon guys.