Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00536)

"Steve Stubbs " wrote:
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > Actually, the name of the religion is NOT "Mormonism"; that was a
> label
> > put on it by non-members
> 
> That is news to me. It makes sense when you think about it, though.
> I wonder if having been called Mormons by others they came to call
> themselves that the same way people in New England came to refer to
> themselves as Yankees (with or without the "d" word as a qualifier.)

It was actually a British slang term for New Englanders (the original
"Yankee Doodle" made fun of colonists) which the colonists later turned
to a badge of honor.

Bart Lidofsky