Mormon church leaders no longer want to be called 'Mormon'

[jmowreader]

55. They haven't ever liked being called Mormons, at least officially

This gets complex, so bear with me: Latter-Day Saints theology teaches there were several tribes - the Nephites and Lamanites being the most important to this story - that left the Middle East 600 years before the birth of Jesus and settled in the Americas. 800 years later, the Nephites fell into unbelief and wickedness, and were destroyed by the Lamanites.

One of the Nephitic generals, a fine fellow named Mormon, recorded the history of the Nephites on stone plates. Before he died, he left the plates in the care of his son Moroni - from whom we do not derive the popular insult "moron." Moroni compiled the plates into a book, the Book of Mormon, which he inscribed on new plates made of gold. In 1823. God resurrected Moroni in order to reveal the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith. Smith translated the plates into English, then returned them to Moroni. It is said that the Church elders will kill anyone whose eyes alight on the golden plates.

The strange thing is, the Nephites pissed off the Lamanites in AD 385. Moroni died in AD 421. How does this work?