The Mormon belief that prompted decades of political persecutions by state and federal government authorities and organized violence against Mormons was
A) the American and magical origins surrounding the traditional story of the birth of their religion.
B) The Book of Mormon replacing the New Testament as the revealed word of Jesus Christ.
C) the Mormon belief in plural marriage, specifically Joseph Smith's revelation that a man could take as many wives as he could support.
D) the Mormon belief in tithing a percentage of their income to the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Answer: C
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