[sweetliberty]

"The truth of the matter is I doubt most Mormons even know their own church history."

You are correct in that assumption. If you take the stand, which I do, that nothing is greater than the foundation upon which it is built, it would be impossible to hold that the doctrines of Mormonism were divinely inspired in light of historical facts. I believed what is taught is a selective and sanitized version of history combined with a list of authors and titles that are taboo reading for Mormons. I know the ones I have discussed the history with were completely ignorant of details.

[FITZ]

that nothing is greater than the foundation upon which it is built

What about the Judeo-Christianity foundation? Didn't Abraham himself take a younger wife and didn't he just about kill his own son until some Angel showed up? To me it's not the past, it's what it is now.

[not-an-ostrich]

About 20 years ago I read the history of the Mormon church. I was curious about the matched set young males knocking on my door. My opinion is LDS is a sanitized cult. Cleaned up to maintain the money and property they had accumulated. They came close to loosing all about 100 years ago. Prior to mellowing out (now I just say I am not interested thank you) and if I was in a mood I quoted names, dates of poisonings, and various other unsavory information of the LDS history to these nice clean cut young men.