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“No it means that Mormons can answer the two questions about Mormonism with much more accuracy than non-mormons who frankly don’t give a darned about when Mormonism was founded or who Joseph Smith is.”

Why wouldn’t somebody care about American history, such as the role Mormons played in it?

Some of my ancestors were Mormons. I am not nor have ever been a Mormon.

But my intellectual curiosity moves me to want to know about them, just like any other ancestors.

For example among my Mormon ancestors were those who fought in the Revolution, and some who emigrated from England, after being early converts.

Their religion was only a part of who they were, came from and travelled to.

Um, first, you could not have had Mormon ancestors who fought int he Revolution because the religion wasn't conceived of until the 1830. You may have had ancestors who fought int he Revolution but they could not have been Mormons until after the Revolution was over. That's straight History.

Second, if you claim to be a Christian you might want to ask a Mormon about the concept of 'eternal progression' since their religion is based upon the notion that something material that their god was born into as a man on a planet and progressed through to achieve the exaltation of becoming 'God' existed before God. The Bible is very clear in several places that 'in the beginning God' and that The Word was with God and was God in that beginning, the beginning before there was anything, only God.

Mormonism is not Christianity. It cannot be Christian with the beliefs they have reagrding Whom God is, Whom God was and Whom Jesus IS. They will lie to you without believing they are lying to you. They will tell you untruths about their own religion and their religion's history. But they will not awaken to see their own deceits so long as the spirit of thier religion binds them. When people on this forum expose the facts about Mormonism using LDS sources, the apologists for this cult will flatly assert that we do not know what they believe. Ask any 'honest' Mormon to explain in detail the Mormon term 'eternal progression'. If they are honest with you, they will eventually tell you the father of Jesus went throuygh a physical existence as a mere mortal and achieved godhood via exaltation. The god of Mormonism is not The One God Whose name is I AM.