Mormon
I know who the Mormons are and who founded them, but I am interested specifically in the origin of the word itself. Anyone know anything on the subject?
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From Wikipedia:According to the book's title page and the account of Joseph Smith, Jr. (who claimed to be the book's translator), Mormon was the prophet-historian who engraved the book on Golden...
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Like many of the books of the Bible, the Book of Mormon is named for its (supposed) author, the person who wrote the text that Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered (with angelic assistance) and...
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Much more on this in an old thread, which includes a link to some interesting speculation on the name.A psychoanalyst named Walter F. Prince addressed the Masonic angle in 1917. Also concluding that...
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People like solon (from that old thread) are a major reason I don't use my real name here.
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i thought mormon referred to some angel named "moroni" and they just added the extra M so they wouldn't be the morons?
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Quote:People like solon (from that old thread) are a major reason I don't use my real name here. I use my real name, but then again I figure that I meetrude and stupid people face to face, so the fact...
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i thought mormon referred to some angel named "moroni" and they just added the extra M so they wouldn't be the morons?This ill-founded notion was raised and disposed of in the old thread aldi links to.
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