Well, I've looked intothe Mormon religioin a bit, as one of my friends went and married herself a mormon man. I wanted to find out what she was geting into. I am no expert by far, but I can say this. The mormons I have met have all been very friendly, nice, down to earth people. they seem to have more focus towards family values then most other people I've know. I myself think Smith was a con man, and have no respect for the mormon church itself, based more on my hatered for all churchs then anything they preach, but whatever they have going, it seems to be working for them, so they should keep it up. Most of the missionaeis I 've had to deal with were rather polite about knocking on my door. Soon as I told them I had no intrest, they said thankyou for my time, gave me a way to get ahold of them if I changed my mind, and left. i'm not going to hold it against them for doing what they see as trying to help me. There have been one or two pushy ones that wer a little over zelous in their attempts, but as soon as you start trying to explain the benifits of converting to the church of satan to them, they tend to go running for the hills.
No, I'm not a satanist, but it is one of the many religions I've studied up on. One thing I did find intresting about the book of mormon. The missing first chapter. Seems when Smith was writing it one of the people helping him took it to show someone, and it got stolen or lost some how. Now, instead of rewring it, and and risking the stolen copy showing up so people could see they don't match word for word and use that as proof it was a con(not saying it is or isn't here, that is just the logic that was explained to me by the missionaries I was talking to about it), Smith left it "missing". The chapter that is now the "first" chapter of the book of mormon is the Book of Neaphi(sp?). The lost chapter was supposed to have been writen by Neaphi's father. I kind of wish I hadn't read the book of mormon though. Now I know how all of Orson Scott Cards books are going to end. The Home Comeing series was the book of Neaphi done Sci-fi.