Aegis of Reason

We all had to deal with them at one point or another if you live in the United States, girls with smiles and very long skirts or boys in bicycles and black ties that come to your home and annoy you. However Mormonism or LSD… i mean LDS (latter day saints) became big news recently due to Mitt Romney in the race of the Republican nomination.
People started to have a closer look at this religion, and to me quite frankly anyone can run for president.. as long as they keep their religion at home and don’t intend to change the fact that this is a secular republic.

So what are the strengths of Mormonism?
1: Devoted members that like to travel.
2: Families of 8-12 children… is all about the future generations.
3: Magical Underwear.
4: Travel in pairs.
5: They Practically own Utah.

The Strategy:
You wont see them worship or pray in public, but this wont be a problem for you to encounter them. They will come to you and trust me, you will know who they are.

Well first here is a crash course in Mormon Religion. Pay attention.

Should you throw heavy science like evolution at them? don’t even worry about it, they have so many holes in their religion alone that you shouldn’t have any trouble at all.

First of all the first edition of the Book of Mormon had many grammatical errors (perhaps as many as this blog). For example the 1830 edition has sentences such as: “Adam and Eve, which was our first parents” and “This he done that he might subject them”. But you know, give J. Smith a break!, they didn’t have computers back then, is hard to be divinely inspired when you don’t have spell check.
And how do you explain that there were several verses that were exactly the same as the King James Bible?

For some religions, the word ‘dinosaur’ will immediately win an argument (at least back in the old days), but on regards to Mormonism all that you have to say is ‘horse’. According to the book of Mormon there were horses in North America around the time of Jesus. But wait a minute… Horses went extinct a long time ago in the continent (10,000 years or so) and were re-introduced by the Spanish and other Europeans. So how exactly did tribes have horses 2000 years ago? they didn’t.

Similar arguments can be made on the appearance of Elephants, Swine, Barley and other agricultural elements in the book that simply were not here prior to the columbian exchange. (well they could be talking about elephants as mammoths… right…)

We can go on and on and on about the archaeological evidence. There were no literate, white tribes that knew of Egyptian and Hebrew. No evidence of the use of Iron or steel, and of course there were no chariots.
If they had these technologies even at the arrival of the Spanish, it would have been a heck of a lot harder for Cortez to take Tenochtitlan.

Well there is also Genetics and linguistics to show that its pure non sense.

Ok, once you get all that to support yourself, then you have to remember about sexual repression, sexism, racism and homophobia.

Well I am not going to go into the problems of their theology, and the criticism that other religions have with Mormonism.
This guide is merely a way for you to raise consciousness, I would be surprised if any mormon could see the light of reality. As always, expect crackpot explanations to what I just mentioned.

Oh yeah.. the magic underwear…

and just for fun… (are they mormons? still fun!)*

*I do not encourage any physical aggression towards religion. Just reason & Science!. Do it the Dawkins Way!