When talking to Mormons it is perhaps best to tell them that Joseph Smith had many wives, a lot of which were underaged because Mormons are in denial about it. And Joseph had a lot of them, nobody can count the exact number but it appears close to 50 as the minimum number. And among them, 10 were under the age of twenty, 5 pairs of sisters, one mother/daughter pair... His youngest brides were fourteen, and one wife, Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, claimed that Smith secretly approached her in 1834 when she was twelve years of age.
Then after Joseph died another 149 dead women were sealed to him as well, meaning that when their husbands arrived in the afterlife they would be left without their wife.
Then after Joseph died another 149 dead women were sealed to him as well, meaning that when their husbands arrived in the afterlife they would be left without their wife.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
