Joseph Smith is responsible for starting World War I. You can actually go back even further than that to the Protestant Reformation and the invention of the printing press allowing dissemination of information, which allowed people to read the Bible and interpret it in their own hands. It took the power away from the clergy, which the poor people wouldn't necessarily be literate enough to read the Bible, so they had to trust the clergy to interpret the Bible for them. This led to a lot of schisms, which led to a lot of offshoots, especially in upper New York in the early 1800s, which is where Jehovah's Witnesses come from, Seventh-day Adventists come from, and Mormons. Joseph Smith is the man who started the Mormon religion, and he is responsible for creating it and gaining followers to it.
There was a gunsmith who was named Jonathan Browning. And he left his first wife to convert to Mormonism and take a second wife, and then came out to Orm, Utah. There he had a son named John Moses, who ended up creating his own rifles, and the rifles made their way back east to the Winchester Company, who saw the single shot drop action, or single shot rifles, loved the design, went on a train out to Utah from Connecticut to meet with the designer of the rifle. Found out it was a kid who was less than 20 years old at the time. They hired him on to do work with them, and he would be paid per patent. A lot of Winchester's iconic rifle and shotgun designs come from John Moses Browning.
John Moses Browning, after several years of working with Winchester, wanted to be paid royalties on his patents, and Winchester denied paying royalties. Since he had operated as a flat rate per patent, that's all they were willing to give him, so he went elsewhere. First he went to Remington, but that deal didn't quite go through until much later. But then he went on a trip to Europe, and a company that was nearly bankrupt called Fabrique Nationale in Belgium, ended up purchasing a couple of his designs, and he helped bring the company back from the verge of bankruptcy. Fabrique Nationale took one of his designs and created the Model 1910 pistol, also known as the Model 1910 Browning, which was a very popular pistol in Europe. In 1914 in Sarajevo, a man by the name of Gavrilo Princip took a Model 1910 Browning pistol that was created in Liège, Belgium, and shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary with it. The assassination of the Archduke with the Model 1910 pistol kicked off the First World War. It's a direct line, but Joseph Smith is not directly responsible for it, and you can argue, yes, Gavrilo Princip could have used any other type of handgun, but he didn't. He used a Model 1910 Browning, which was created by John Moses Browning, who wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Mormons, and his father converting to Mormonism and taking a second wife, and Mormonism wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Joseph Smith. So in a direct line of causation, Joseph Smith is responsible for the start of World War I. But you can go beyond that, because World War I fundamentally changed the entire structure of the world. So the modern world as it sits can be blamed on fucking Mormons.
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