The Mormon prophet's, Joseph Smith, radical Mormon theology called the "Doctrine of Cain" taught that slavery was a divine institution, that  "the Jews" were the product of an illegitimate union between the Devil and Cain, that all of the dark-skinned people of the world were the product of the illegitimate union between "the Jews" and the Devil, and that the Government of the United States should be overthrown because "Christianity" and the Judeo-Christian Laws of America