Don Wildman
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These plates contain a religious history of this ancient American religion.
Take us through that and the bullet points of this subject.
It's really the ultimate Protestant religion in that it's correcting what's wrong with Protestantism, isn't it?
You've already left me behind.
I mean, Joseph Smith made a declaration that humans, more than following God, could become divine themselves, one with him, of God.
That's where the title of your book comes from, right?
This is why the Mormons have to increasingly migrate west, as we covered on our previous episode.
They are being persecuted.
They are being pushed away from communities they are in.
Terrible things happen to them.
The growth of Mormonism led to earlier believers facing this persecution by moving onward.
From 1833, the Mormons were repeatedly forced out of towns.
They moved into Illinois, where you are.
By 1838, things have become so tense that Governor Lilburn Boggs in that state said Mormons must now be treated as enemies.
They must be exterminated or driven from the state.
Boy, it gets intense.