Original-Mormonism as an Americanized Gospel of Mostly Northern European Converts, declared "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 during the timeframe of the 1800s, when nearly all of the first Mormons were Indo-Europeans (or Anglo-Scandanavian people). This awareness of history is not meant to promote ethnocentrism. For example, it's not ethnocentric to point out that most of the Bible was written by the Hebrews. Appreciation of one's ancestral past and the early formation of Mormonism as a cultural tribal identity -- wherein mostly "Anglo-Nordic" people were called to gather to Nauvoo in America -- is not the same thing as prescribing that early Anglo-Nordic tribal gathering and formation today. For the LDS (Restoration) Movement continues to evolve and today the Restorationist churches have grown into a more global religion, and a localized gathering of mostly Anglo-Nordic people to Zion in America is no longer practiced. Knowing what the initial LDS Movement was in the 1800s, is not the same as believing it should still be that way today. I agree with most "Book of Mormon based sects" that have become more global religions by seeking to embrace all nationalities and ethnicities and rejecting any form of racism. Understanding the original ethnolinguistic Indo-European roots of Mormonism and the first Mormons as mostly all Anglo-Nordic People -- that has evolved today into a more global universalist religion with members of every ethnicity and culture -- is the same as 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 like James); and most of the New Testament was written by Jews and to Jews (or mixed Jewish–Gentile congregations) and was rooted in Jewish Scripture, theology, and expectations; the fact is that Christianity culturally evolved to include more Gentiles than Jews only after 70 AD and even more so after Constantine, as it then grew to become a more globalist universalist religion embracing all ethnicities. Likewise, Mormonism, like the story of the Jews and the Bible itself, began with scriptures, like the LDS D&C, written to and for Anglo-Nordic people gathering in North America as the tribe of Ephraim (who were to then gather the other tribes of Israel); after this initial tribal identity formation as a Peculiar People in the 1800s, the LDS Movement then grew to become a more global universalist religion embracing all ethnicities and cultures and the idea of Zion expanded beyond the borders of America
