Mormonism is a religion founded in the late 1800’s by a guy named Joseph Smith who used to do fortune telling by “seeing” through rocks. He “found” some golden plates which were written in “Reformed Egyptian,” which no one else got to see. He “translated” them using the magic stones and the help of the Angel Moroni, and found that they had a story about Jesus coming to the Americas to teach the Native Americans who turn out to be the Lost Tribes of Israel. (It’s just a coincidence that his book seems to have a lot of ideas in common with a fiction book written around the time, and that “it came to pass” and other BoMism’s sound just like someone trying to write like the King James Bible.)

He later had a revelation from God that the only way to get to heaven was to marry lots of women, especially teenage girls. God made sure to send him a message to forward to his wife about how this was okay and she had to accept it or god wouldn’t be happy with her.

He also bought an Egyptian papyrus off of a PT Barnum type (may even have straight up been Barnum, been a billion years since I read Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History) to translate that “Reformed Egyptian” into the “Book of Abraham.” This was before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, so no one had any idea how to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs yet. (That papyri was lost for a century, but later discovered hidden in a picture frame. It was a mutilated Egyptian Book of the Dead.)

The Mormons had a tendency of pissing everyone off, and got chased out of Missouri (where the Garden of Eden is) and Illinois. Smith himself was killed in jail. They moved to Utah, where they could have as many child wives as they wanted. (Everyone forgets that the Republican Party was originally founded to oppose “the two barbarisms” - slavery and polygamy.) Brigham Young took the child wife thing to the next level, and also added lots more racism. (Black people are souls that sat out the original battle in heaven between Jesus and Satan. If they are really good they get to be servants on a white persons paradise planet after they die. Black Mormons couldn’t have the priesthood until the 1970’s - which all adult Mormon men need the priesthood to save their own families.)

They did eventually give up the polygamy because they wanted statehood (on earth - but guys still get extra spirit wives on their heaven planet.)

The current Church, like Scientology, is a real estate grift (they own billion dollar malls.) They also were responsible for things like Prop 8/attacking gay marriage in the late naughts.

Nah Utah is Mormons. Amish are in Pennsylvania and Ohio

No, Mormons.

The Amish, chiefly found in Pennsylvania and Ohio, mainly keep to themselves, making delicious cheeses and maple syrup.

Mormans: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Edit: speling