A Mormon doubts

[Sword of Christ]

So if you weren't Christian, how would you go about debunking Mormonism without claims about your own religion messing with your reasoning? Seriously, take god and Jesus out of the equation for a moment, and tell me why Mormonism is bogus from a purely secular standpoint.

You can use the all the same arguments against Mormonism that you can use against atheism if they don't believe in an eternal uncreated God as the Bible originally stated. If it's a powerful guy with a beard in space like Zeus then that is not God. If you ever see God depicted that way it's metaphorical not literal.

Plus you can use all same arguments you yourself would use regarding Joesph Smiths dubious character, the fact that it's based 100% on everything just one man claimed. The events in the Bible involved communities and groups of people taking part in miraculous events all together at once. Rather than just one charismatic man saying something and then everyone believing it. You can point this fact out with most of the other revealed religions including Islam. It' worth pointing out that very few people believed Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah during his life time and even his own brothers thought he was nuts.

Also if Jews ever reached America apparently they forgot how to make iron weapons/tools and the somehow forgot all about the wheel. Native American didn't have wheels and at best they could make bronze though for the most part all their tools and weapons were made from stone.