Mormons Got Talent 7

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No life jacket needed when you got The Book of Mormon 🏄‍♂️📘

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Joseph mostly used 1823’s The Twelve Tribes of Israel aka View of the Hebrews by a local pastor named Ethan Smith. Joseph was a product of the religious revival speakers and meetings of the time. Joseph was an ambitious guy who wanted a different life for his family. His uncle started a similar community to the Mormons, he had like twenty families in a commune. His grandfather wrote his own autobiography. His mother and him attended meetings and Joseph became sharpened over time with the pros and cons of the traveling revivalists he saw. Joseph then observed what worked on his fellow men in palmyra and Canandaigua and Rochester and what didn’t. Smith realized that what mattered was the personality of the speaker because people wanted to believe in the person rather than the content of their beliefs (to an extent) from there, Smith was on a mission to gain attention, a hold on a following, wealth from followers and eventually— the reputation of success that his family had failed to get.
The main thing is that Joseph KNEW people wanted something new to latch onto during the revival going on in Western NY at the time. Smith was ambitious, well read and attended a ton of lectures and speakers. He appealed to locals who wanted an explanation for the Native American tribes whose burial grounds were all over the finger lakes region and the Ontario Lake basin.