[CS-FSLUG] Re: Falangists

[Ed Hurst]

On Monday 08 November 2004 18:11, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
>  Don -- do you know how the Anglo-Israelism movement is doing as a
> whole (since you bring it up)? I'm curious whether it has remained
> mostly a misguided theology or if most of its sects have become
> something more disturbing like Christian Identity is?
>
>  I know it has some relatively harmless[*] decadents, like
> Armstrongism (the pre-90's Worldwide Church of God and, IIRC, Garner
> Ted Armstrong's present sect) and, of course, the Latter-Day Saints,
> who decided to move the Israelites even further westward to St.
> Joseph, Missouri... if I recall correctly.

I think this page covers it very well:

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/britisrael.html

I believe the LDS took only a single idea from that, but indirectly via 
a proto-science fiction novel. The allegation is that the original 
author showed Smith his work, and Smith decided to steal it just before 
it was finished. Then, on a bet, he formed a religion from the 
unfinished story. The story was that the Lost 10 Tribes were the Native 
Americans.

-- 
Ed Hurst
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