Original-Mormonism as an Americanized Gospel of Mostly European Converts as "Ephraimites" in the 1800s:
Disclaimer: Note that the following posts below are only meant to express an appreciation for my own Mormon Pioneer ancestors and the religion they contributed to creating, but not to promote ethnocentrism. Appreciation of one's ancestral past and the early formation of Mormonism as an identity, is not the same as prescribing the exact same ideas today (as the Restoration movement continues to evolve as a global religion). Knowing what the Mormon Movement was in the 1800s, is not the same as believing it should be that way today. I agree with most Book of Mormon based sects that have become more global religions by embracing all nationalities and ethnicities and rejecting any form of racism. Understanding the original European roots of Mormonism and the first Mormons as mostly all European Peoples -- that has evolved today into a more global universalist religion with members of every ethnicity -- is the same as all Christians today appreciating the original Jewish roots of Christianity and how the very first "Christians" were mostly all ethnically Jewish (most of whom were Torah-observant and loyal to the ethnic culture of first century Judaism), before Christianity too evolved to became a global universalist religion embracing all ethnicities
