As an exmormon I can speak to this. Mormons literally believe that as members of the LDS church they enter into the Jewish covenants. They have "Patriarchal blessings" wherein someone's "tribal heritage" (meaning of the 12 tribes of Israel) is supposedly revealed. The Book of Mormon purports to recount the colonization of the Americas by a group of... You guessed it, Jews. Mormons are born out of the 19th century American mysticism traditions in which Jews, Jewishness, and the Bible are at once exotic and sacred.
Not why he would act this way makes a lot of sense. According to them America was founded by one of the lost 13 tribes who destroyed their civilization and became the nomadic American Indian tribes.
Glenn is German though, so that's a different tribe.
As an exmormon I can speak to this. Mormons literally believe that as members of the LDS church they enter into the Jewish covenants. They have "Patriarchal blessings" wherein someone's "tribal heritage" (meaning of the 12 tribes of Israel) is supposedly revealed. The Book of Mormon purports to recount the colonization of the Americas by a group of... You guessed it, Jews. Mormons are born out of the 19th century American mysticism traditions in which Jews, Jewishness, and the Bible are at once exotic and sacred.
Not why he would act this way makes a lot of sense. According to them America was founded by one of the lost 13 tribes who destroyed their civilization and became the nomadic American Indian tribes.
Glenn is German though, so that's a different tribe.