mormonism is not Christianity.
Exposing mormonism is not mormon bashing.
It has only been about three decades that mormons have been demanding they are Christians, before that they bristled at the notion.
Only “you” and whatever denomination you belong to are real Christians, the rest are fakes, frauds and posers. Got it. Judgment is someone elses job, not yours.
Mormons think they are the only Christians, that traditional Christianity is past of an apostasy at the start of things. Protestants say much the same thing about the Catholic Church, except they think that the Bible is the whole of the faith. The Mormons also believe in the private revelations of Joseph Smith and the Presidents of the Church. The Book of Mormon is also considered Scripture. Myself I think it is a product of speculations about the origins of the Indians, who are not mentioned/alluded to in Genesis. Adair’s history of the American Indians, published in 1775, is an account of his experiences among the Southeastern Indians. he spends some time on the language and sees some resemblance to Hebrew in it. I think this sort of thing made its way into Smith’s thinking. A mystery people whose origins needed to be explained, and sometimes associated with the 10 lost tribes of Israel.