Someone in FR mentioned Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” and the chapter on Mormonism. If you want true sarcasm, he was the master. He goes on and on about those 8 witnesses, and how they are mostly in two families and that he (Twain) doesn’t even NEED the other members of those families to swear they saw the plates... well, anyway, I’m not going to try to remember the details of his sarcasm. Read it. It is Epic Wit.
With the gushing self-sufficiency of youth I
was feverish to plunge in headlong and achieve a great reform here--until
I saw the Mormon women. Then I was touched. My heart was wiser than my
head. It warmed toward these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely"
creatures, and as I turned to hide the generous moisture in my eyes, I
said, "No--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian
charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their
harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of
open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered
in his presence and worship in silence."
LOL, now that is funny and I don't care who you are. You could transpose the joke with another religion and it would be just as funny.