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Again, your comment "Mormonism did not start Joseph Smith" makes no sense and does not address the statement in the post you replies.

As far as your first sentence it this post I am responding to, it's a straw man and has nothing to do with the conversation.

If you want to start a new convo on that, fine.

Smith denigrated all Christian denominations and sects, including Catholicism. Altho Catholicism had by that time drifted away from Christianity as proclaimed by Jesus and became more and more about Mary.

Today it puts the Catholic Mary (as differentiated from the Biblical Mary) many times in the role of Savior, usurping the position that Jesus holds according to the Bible.

Again, your comment "Mormonism did not start Joseph Smith" makes no sense and does not address the statement in the post you replies.

Go to post 108 and then read post 109 responding.

However, to lump him under the Protestant category is not accurate on your part.

The reference was to Joseph Smith. He was under Protestant/Evangelical influence from the Second Great Awakening. He wrote about it. There were no Mormons when heard and responded to the Protestant/Evangelical preaching. He became conscious of his sin, read his Bible and sought which church he should join. He was a searching Protestant/Evangelical who rejected what was available and ended up starting his own religious community (whose doctrines are incompatible with Orthodox Christianity).

“My mind at times was greatly excited, the cry and tumult were so great and incessant. The Presbyterians were most decided against the Baptists and Methodists, and used all the powers of both reason and sophistry to prove their errors, or, at least, to make the people think they were in error. On the other hand, the Baptists and Methodists in their turn were equally zealous in endeavoring to establish their own tenets and disprove all others. In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?”