tiger88 said:
1. colorado city, AZ so much shit has happend there.... recently too
2. mormons are the most racist judgemental of religions EASY
3. homos? dude i know several mormons who are gay or bi
its more of a cult then anything.... sad shit
I'm familiar with the gold plates and the Angel Moroni.
I also realize that no one else ever physically saw the plates. Some people (7 I think) signed something that said they had seen them, but later recanted that when they left the church saying they only saw them in a vision.
I realize that most of the prophecies were crap as well.
The biggest hole though is the book of Abraham. He translated it from funeral scrolls that he got from mummies. The church reported that these were lost in the Chicago fire. But then, later on, they turned up and Egyptian experts were able to analyze them and translate them and they were simple funeral texts, nothing more.
Did you ever see how Joseph smith drew on human looking heads and what not because some of the original art was ripped? HUMAN HEADS!! these were really jackal and bird heads that the Egyptians used but he completed made up his own thing. He translated them to mean whatever he wanted.
I am surprised anyone stayed a member of the church after that bombshell was outed.
Now I know a Mormon who straight up admits that Joseph Smith was a fraud, but she still believe in "the gospel" of Jesus, and thinks that the mormon version of this is the truest that we have!
If you can admit that Joseph Smith was a fraud, then everything falls apart.. the book of mormon.. the book of abraham.. the whole idea that jesus visted north america.. etc.
I am well aware of what is going on in Colorado city.. it sucks... men fucking 12 year girls... it should be illegal. People wonder why the mormons were persecuted back in the late 1800s.. it was people saw them for what they were.. religion kooks that tried to bend the laws to suit them (multiple wives, etc).
Did you knwo they opened a bank that was a complete scam?
And what about the mountain meadows massacre.. the mormons dressed up as Indians and killed people travelling to California! It came from the mormon church, that much was proved, but they never tied it directly to Brigham Young.