EARLY MORMONS on their trek from Illinois to Utah in 1846. Their descendants today have so much in common with American compatriots that the idea of any separation from the U.S. would be risible
Those familiar with the Mormon faith (a Christian sect) will recall that it began with the Prophet Joseph Smith's discovery of some divinely inscribed golden plates in America in 1827. Evidently, the sacred plates did not survive. However, according to Mormons, their sacred inscriptions were recorded and represent Mormon doctrine to this day. There are now some 10 million Mormons worldwide, most of them in the U.S. state of Utah. This poses the question: should the Mormons in Utah start a separatist movement to gain independence from the rest of the United States? This may seem laughable now but, in fact, history teaches that if there is just one common factor such as ethnicity, cultural, tribal or religious differences, which can be used to divide people from their neighbours and compatriots, then some people, sometime, somewhere, will seek to exploit the situation to undermine the natural unity of man in favour of division and separation. Their motives are either a genuine concern to put an end to a perceived persecution of their people, in which case they may be heroes; or else they are simply personally ambitious, in which case they are certainly demagogues. The critical factor in determining the nature of the separatist cause is the existence or absence of persecution. The early Mormons were persecuted by orthodox Christians.
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