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[[Jordan Paper]], a Western scholar who calls himself polytheistic, considers polytheism to be the normal state in human culture. Even the Catholic Church shows polytheistic aspects with the worshipping of the saints. On the other hand, he complains, monotheistic missionaries and scholars were eager to see a proto-monotheism or at least henotheism in polytheistic religions, for example, when taking from the Chinese pair of Sky and Earth only one part and call it the ''King of Heaven'', as [[Matteo Ricci]] did.<ref>Jordan Paper: The Deities are Many. A Polytheistic Theology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, pp. 112 and 133.</ref>

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[[Joseph Smith]], the founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], believed in "the plurality of Gods", saying "I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods".<ref>http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Godhead</ref> Mormonism also affirms the existence of a [[Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)|Heavenly Mother]],<ref>http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Heavenly_Mother</ref> as well as [[Exaltation (Mormonism)|exaltation]], the idea that people can become gods in the afterlife.<ref>https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132.20?lang=eng#19</ref>