Captain Moroni coloring pages

Captain Moroni prays with the Title of Liberty

Captain Moroni, from the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, was a Nephite military leader.  He was also a Christian and a very good man.  When a wicked man named Amalackia, who was also a Nephite, wanted to destroy their government and be made king... 

Captain Moroni tore his cloak and wrote the following on it:  

"In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom,

 and our peace, our wives, and our children"

Then Captain Moroni put on his armor (seen here as the kind of armor the Hopewell people wore).  Then he prayed for his people.  Next, Captain Moroni went among the Nephite people, waving his cloak with the writing on it that he called The Title of Liberty. . .  and he rallied the people to defend their freedom.  It worked and Amalickia was defeated.  But Amalickia escaped to go among the Lamanites and via murder and intrigue, Amalickia became king of the Lamanites.  Then he started a war against the Nephites.  The war went on for years.  

Amalickia even swore to drink Moroni's blood but that didn't work out for Amalackia.  Amalickia got a javelin to the heart one night when he was camped with his army.  But he managed to do a great deal of evil in his lifetime. 

In contrast, Captain Moroni did a great deal of good defending the freedom of his people.  The Book of Mormon says that if all men were like Captian Moroni then the foundations of hell would be shaken and Satan would have no power.  

I think it is interesting to see the amount of good one person can do and the amount of evil one person can do.  It makes me think that we all may be having more impact for good or evil than we realize. 

The stories involving Captain Moroni are found in the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ.  

Below are some other drawings from previous posts that are also of Captain Moroni.  All the drawings posted or re-posted today are depicting Captain Moroni as a member of the Hopewell or Mound Builders, or Mississippian Cultures that were found in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys.  They are found in other places in the Eastern United States.  There are other ideas that perhaps the events in the Book of Mormon took place in Meso-America, in Mexico, Guatemala, and other Central American countries.  The idea that the events could have taken place in North America also has some validity.  There are evidences that the ancient culture in North America smelted metals and built huge buildings like step pyramids (seen in the first drawing on this page

Now I am going to talk like a scientist...
It is actually rather maddening that the knowledge of these ancient cultures (Hopewell, Mound Builders, or Mississippian, etc.) has been suppressed or maybe just not sought out as it should have been.  It was popular for many years to look at all Native Americans as not worthy of their land...  so to be able to justify taking the land from the Native Americans, So it was very unpopular to note their advances in technology and to not talk about or study their advanced civilizations.

I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so I will admit that I am interested in these ancient civilizations because it would be nice to know where the events in the Book of Mormon took place.  However, I am also a retired science teacher and I think that whether you believe the Book of Mormon is a true ancient record as we believe... or if you don't believe that... it is awful to ignore that these magnificent cultures that existed.  It is just bad science.  There are enormous sites with huge buildings that have never been excavated and studied.  To me, this is a scientific tragedy.  Children should be taught that there were advanced civilizations here in North America.  University archaeology departments all over the United States and Canada should be running archeological digs at these sites.  Many sites have been destroyed because there are modern cities there now.  But many sites are still untouched.  We know more about the Maya and Aztecs than we do about these local cultures.

All these drawings depict Captain Moroni as if he was from one of these Mississippian, Hopewell, or Mound Builder cultures.  The weapons are indicative of some of their weapons.  The printable forms of the drawings are found by clicking on the correct category button up at the top of this page.  Scroll to the bottom of the Religion list to see today's drawings.  So click on the button that is labeled. . . .  Religion.

Captain Moroni as a Mound Builder

Captain Moroni if the Nephites were the Mississippian Culture