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The Mormons
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The Mormons Who were the Mormons? The Mormons were a very different to other people they had a communal life and this means they try to get other people to follow there religion. The man who founded the Mormons was Joseph smith a son of a poor family in Vermont. Joseph smith claimed he saw a vision of an angel in 1823 called Moroni. The vision he had told him to find some secret hidden golden plates in a hillside called Cumorah in Palmyra, in the New York state. The plates were then kept hidden for four years, smith found the plates and four years later he translated what it said on them behind a curtain, the inscription was written in the book of Mormon published in 1830. There were witnesses which went to see the plates and confirmed they exist. The Mormons believed in no individual ownership of property, and in...
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