Now, regarding Joseph Smith ~ eh, you didn't think I'd bring him up did you ~ well, he personally excommunicated me over a century before I was born. Oh, yes he did, and he wrote it down in his little Doctrines and Covenants book.
I think he excommunicated his mother too, and certainly the Whitmers and the Brooks' ~ which is why I not only do not have a horse in the LDS competition, they don't even want me around.
Frankly you are endangering your salvation and your reward to even talk to me, or with me, or about me!
You see, people usually respond; but they never answer.
I believe it was Aristotle who abhorred those who claimed to have a special connection with the Almighty and would grant absolution for a consideration. There's a lot of money in every church, if you sell the right thing. Religions now sell forgiveness and redemption for violating the ten suggestions; they don't sell virtue. There's lots of buyers.