I imagine at least some of what is accredited to the Mormons are nothing but lies, never the less if there were not a lot of hocus pocus in a Church it could not be called a religion and there would not be anything to attract the pagans.
The bottom line (for me) is:
Who would you rather have move into your neighborhood? A group of muzzies, or a group of Mormons?
Ridiculing religion by using concrete thinking for deeply symbolic actions shows a lack of understanding for human nature.
Given all the superstition and magical thinking in the secular community about diet etc I agree with that sardonic jewish carpenter to remove the log from your own eye before taking the splinter out of your neighbor's eye.
The Mormons seem to be right about one thing, they believe the Catholics and protestants are the whore of Babylon.
They should have included the Mormons but in that sense they are just like all of the other religious institutions, they are not about to admit it.
Incidentally if I was not aware of the great whore of rev 17 and if I did not see religion as an evil I would most likely be drawn to the Catholic or Mormon religion rather than the protestant.