How intelligent people could believe in a religion founded by a man with Smith's history or gullibly accept the whole Golden Book, Angel Moroni (some jokes just write themselves), Lost Hebrew Tribes in America, stone and top hat translation method, and the book that resulted is beyond me. But as with the Global Warming zombies there's just no accounting for people's willingness to ignore their common senses and believe utterly in utter nonsense. But so long as they aren't trying to forcibly impose those beliefs on me by way of a knife to the throat or the imposition of stupid regulations against my keeping mercury free lights on and my home warm in the winter then I've got no real problem with them.
When they try to imposed their own theocracy or Gaia-ocracy it's a different story.
“), but I have known Mormons who were among the nicest people you could imagine and a few who were and I’m sure still are outright lying bastards. “
I’ll drink to that.
“How intelligent people could believe in a religion founded by a man with Smith’s history or gullibly accept the whole Golden Book, Angel Moroni (some jokes just write themselves), ............”
Well if you are told this since a child. What else would you believe? It’s like the story of the baby elephant. When an elephant is a baby they stake it’s let to the ground and he pulls and pulls but can’t pull the stake out. When the elephant is grown they chain his let to the stake and he just stands there. Mind you he can pull the whole circus tent down with his strength but in his mind he can not. He was taught as a baby that he can’t
All religions are like that really. The day I got up and said “I’m not buying this anymore” and left taking down the circus tent with me it shocked the clowns in my last church.