When it mentions they did not believe "according to their own will and pleasure", what does that mean? Alma 4:8
Alma wins the war, everyone's prospering, and the people in the church become so righteous that they become super wealthy. They start to wear fancy clothes, have lots of gold and silver, and became so prideful that they began to scorn each other and especially the nonbelievers.
This is the opposite of what you tend to see elsewhere in the scriptures, where the nonbelievers persecute the believers.
The wickedness in the church impeded the progress of spreading the gospel to nonbelievers.
Turns out it's hard to be a missionary when you're a jerk.
ANSWER:
We don't really know exactly what this persecution looked like. I bet it started small and got bigger from there, developing into general discrimination. Probably nonviolent, or else it would have been mentioned.
I betcha this kind of thing *never* comes up in Utah...
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