Christianity Vs. Mormonism

[TaraJo]

That's pretty clever.

Of course, all the angry desert god religions began that way but I'm sure you think your bullshit is different.

Mormons are worse. Much worse. Specifically, their holy book teaches that 2000 or so years ago, there was a civilization of Jews living in what is now upstate New York. Thing is, this wasn't just some minor civilization that could be easily replaced. The Book of Mormon describes their final battle as involving 250,000 soldiers and given that ancient populations had a 10-to-1 resident-to-soldier ratio, that means we're talking about a civilization that's about 2,500,000 people. And they were destroyed by another, equally large and powerful civilization in the same area. Yet we have zero archaeological evidence for either one of these civilizations ever existing. We have plenty of evidence for the Incas and the Aztecs and even the Mayan civilization (even though the last had been long since gone when the first Europeans came over). None of those civilizations ever came anywhere near upstate New York. Even suggesting that one of them could be a the rival/enemy tribe that destroyed the Jews is absurd because 1) it's such a long way away that I can't imagine a tribe traveling all the way from the Yucatan pinensula to the New England just to fight and 2) cities have been destroyed in warfare before and archaeologists have still been able to find record of those cities. So far, no such records exist for any cities where the book of Mormon says they should be. No artifacts or evidence for any civilization in the area.

And, yet, as easily as their religious beliefs can be demolished, their believers still hold onto their faith. Evidence doesn't deter them anymore than evidence has detered any other theist.