The Mormon god, who was...
...once a sinner,
...died,
...and was picked by a "council of gods" to get the god job of this planet...and a planet near the star Kolob...
...and then appeared to Joseph Smith without ever claiming to be God (search Joseph Smith History in Pearl of Great Price ... you'll never see Smith id'ing this entity as a "god")...
...concocted this false "gospel"...
...which 55,000 Lds missionaries now peddle worldwide...
And the fact that so many of the bamboozled are Catholics turns my stomach.
And the man who tried to become POTUS has stated that he believes every word.....
Mormonism says that there were Semitic people in pre-Colombus America and that they had mighty cities etc. and that the native Americans are descendents
Now, the Native Americans have no Semitic genes, their languages are completely non-Semitic, their culture and history dates back a long time yet has no relationship to Semites and there is zero archaeological proof
Ergo,the entire religion is based on a provably false premise, there is no point in discussing the philosophy of this false premise
In contrast, let's take Scientology and Islam -- Scientology is based on some millenia old extra-terrestrial event. There's no way to prove or disprove that based on where we are
Islam is based on a historical set of teachings -- one can argue that Mohammed never existed, but was a compilation of people. Even then it doesn't affect Islam as the philosophies are wider
however Mormonism is based on the "fact" that there were Semites in pre-Columbus America
That is a false premise, hence everything else is not worthy of discussion as a religion -- their theory of salvation is as relevant as a cargo-cult worshipping Prince Philip of Edinburgh as God.