You are missing the historical context. This is history, not a theology lesson.
The history of Joseph Smith and his actions would not even be a footnote if it were not for his "theology".
His shady business dealings and practices of fortune-hunting just grew into a larger and more pervasive form of fortune-hunting, (coerced tithing) and into the larger criminal enterprise of bigamy under the guise of "theology".
Nice try, but you can't seperate the man from the religion. BTW if as you say, this is "history not a theology lesson" what's it doing in the Religion Forum?
Then why is this in the religion forum.
You are missing the factual context. This is a false religion, not Christianity...
You are missing the factual context. This is a false religion, not Christianity...
“This is history, not a theology lesson.”
Then it needs to mention the child-molesting perversion that started mormonism. It needs to mention that the mormon cult was started through greed and sexual desires. It sure as Hell didn’t start because the world needed another flavor of Christianity. Mormon and Islam strated by the same type of child-molesting, murdering tyrant for the same reasons of Earthly desires.