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Greetings everyone! It has come to my attention that the great religious leader, American prophet, Joseph Smith is dead, being attacked and hung by a drunken mob in Carthage, Illinois. This man died a martyr, widely known for his influential religious preaching in states of New York, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois. Being the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and contributing to the converting of people into Mormonism, he vastly transformed people, turning them into large Mormon communities. Being put in such a position, Smith’s 39-year life has been full of exciting experiences.
It is fascinating that John Smith was as much a product of New York’s burned-over district as Charles Finney was. After his spectacular interpretation …show more content…

It can be seen that he is not the amazing figure that everyone thinks he is. First, he is a big supporter and advocate of polygamy. The worst part is that he lied about denial of polygamy, and that he only had one wife, while he had over twenty wives, most of which were wives of other men, thus making him a prostitute and guilty of bigamy. that many probably because most wives hated him and he could not maintain their loyalty towards him, thence making him desire another woman. He had also claimed to have seen and been visited multiple times by over one hundred heavenly beings, some of which are Moroni, Mormon, and Jesus Christ. If what he said was true, why did he have to change what he saw in his account of first vision of Jesus Christ in 1832 six years later in 1838? If Joseph Smith was actually an utterly good person, why has he been arrested forty two times for being a disorderly person, treason, threats of attack on others, illegal banking, perjury, fornication and polygamy? He had also moved from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Illinois because he was not welcome in any state by neither the citizens nor the government. Groups of Anti-Normans formed responded with hostile acts such as shooting, feathering, or tarring him because of his dirty and evil actions. Ultimately, he was killed by a mob of hateful vigilantes while in a jail in

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