“If you believe all those lies about Joseph Smith, you should hear the ones they said about our Jesus . . . and the same lies are still being told today.”
I have never heard anyone say (much less have in writing) that Jesus was a fornicator. Even you cannot deny Joseph Smith slept with the wives of other men.
I have never heard Jesus called a money changer, nor have I ever seen his signature on a $3 bill, yet you deny what is out in the open.
I have never heard it said that Jesus tried to kill another human being, even his inquisitors. The testimony of the one survivor of Joseph’s killing says Joseph pulled the trigger six times on the 6 barrel pistol that had been smuggled into the jail, hitting three people.
I have never heard that Jesus got his testimony by looking through a seer stone pulled from a well. Yet you delight in your religion being the result of a parlor trickster’s rantings.
I’ve never heard Jesus called “General”, as though he was trying to set himself up for real as an alternate Caesar, but Joseph Smith’s friends called him General and he led a Mormon militia.
I never heard Jesus was under investigation for falsely imprisoning others, yet these cases were before the courts before Joseph Smith died.
I have never heard that Jesus wore magic garments to ward off evil. I have never heard that Jesus had magic handshakes and claimed he had to baptize the dead.
In short, Joseph Smith is a fraud in so many documented ways, that I can no longer assume Mormons practice their faith in ignorance of this history, but do so in open complicity with one overt false prophet. Such purposeful blindness can only lead to bad endings for a Romney presidency.
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