did everyone forget that the book of mormon explicitly describes black people as those punished by god? the religion was made by a white huckster in the mid-1800s, it's full of racism and bigotry.
All religions were made by hucksters, white or otherwise. The only difference with Mormonism is it's more recent so it's easier to see the fraud. If we were all living in the first century CE, we'd view Christianity in much the same way. And 2000 years from now obvious cults like Mormonism and Scientology will probably be viewed as mainstream religions, once history has as much distance from the circumstances of their founding as it does today in the case or Christianity, Islam, and Judism. (Unless, of course, our society grows up and recognizes religion for the primitive man-made superstition it is. I wouldn't count on it, though.

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