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By their fruits ye shall know them ... here's Zakeet's list of Smithian fruits ...

A supposed prophet, Joseph Smith, who taught:

That Jesus and Satan are brothers, that God had incestuous relations with His daughter (Mary), and that Christian pastors are "dimwitted hirelings of Satan
That God is a polygamous celestial stud married to our Heavenly Mother
Of Kolob and of other worlds named Planet Oblish and Planet Enish-go-on-dosh ruled by a governing power through the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Hah-ko-kau-beam
Of sacred scriptures based on pagan works such as prayers to Egyptian gods for dead spirits … which were supposedly translated using occult devices such as peep stones
Of prominent display of Satanic symbols such as pentagrams, baphomets, earth stones, and saturn stones on his churches' religious buildings and literature
Of the wearing a fig leaf apron in temple ceremonies to symbolize Satan’s power and priesthoods
Of having Lucifer teach Mormon church doctrine in the temple ceremony
Of portraying Satan as the god of this world in Mormon rites and ceremonies
Of offering prayers to the devil – Oh God, hear the words of my mouth
Of praising Satan by chanting Hebrew words in the temple ceremony whose translation is Marvelous Lucifer
That husbands can resurrect their wives from the grave
Of having special grips and clasps to tell ghosts from angels and the devil
Of practicing baptism for the dead
Of wearing magic underwear to protect from physical harm – with symbols so sacred that they must be cut out and buried and the garment burned when it wears out
That the Ten Lost Tribes and the apostle John will be discovered living in cement houses in a tropical land adjacent to the North Pole separated by a high mountain range
That men about six feet tall, dressed like Quakers, will be discovered dwelling on the moon where they live for about 1,000 years
That science will prove the earth has knobs on each end
That he was commanded by god to retranslate the Bible because the existing translations contained errors – eventually devising an Inspired Revision completed in 1833 - which was rejected by his church who still uses the King James Version
That his followers should burdened by a complex series of regulations which determine their progression as gods of their own planets - complete with a harem of goddess wives
That he was greater than Jesus