Christoid Logic

[God of Mr. Hanky]

What I was getting at in regards to Mormonism, there would have to be profound doubts about ALL of it.

All the revelations were changed. Many/most more than once.

The Book of Mormon has been altered thousands of times.

Vast tracts of Doctrines and Principals and Pearl of Great Price have been deleted and superseded, and calling attention to that can earn an excommunication.


So, our hypothetical 'Mormon_Lady" would have a vastly more difficult time here as compared to the actual Catholic_Lady we do have.

Actually CL has the exact same problems, its jst that the rcc has had 1500 years practise at handwaving away all the contradictions, revisions and nonsensical bits rather than moronisms 150 years.

Yes, it's so tough being late to the party as the Mormon church is, being an organization which is determined to compete with other organized world religions. Back in the day people had few better options for dealing with their unanswered questions, their fear and their lonliness than through their religious ideas and practices. When that failed, and a traveler walked in, assertively promising the benefits of a more powerful / benevolent god, then of course he was welcomed. Fewer people were educated enough to detect fallacious arguments, and different viewpoints didn't travel fast, therefore the errors of LDS errors during the past 150 years would have gone unnoticed. If only Joseph Smith was there 2000 years ago, then maybe the magic underwear business wouldn't seem nearly so weird today!

Therefore, nothing, but nothing is more important to the interests of a powerful religious organization than the ignorance of its followers - whenever it has the power to make people less intelligent, it will use it specifically for that purpose, and then it will use the population to make it more powerful. This axiom has held true in the behavior of church officials since the earliest history of xtianity, 2000 years ago.