Yeah, it's not a cult..it was just someone who claimed to have talked to GOD (isn't that what a lot of cult leaders say?). It was a religion that practiced polygamy marrying girls as young as they could (isn't that what a lot of cult leaders do?).  They rewrote or translated the Bible to suit their own needs (isn't that what of cult leaders do?). What cult leaders like Charles Manson and David Koresh have done is not that much different than what the Mormon church has done. It's just the Mormons have been successful in parlaying their large membership to growing various businesses run by Mormons.