>>>I don't know if you have stated your preference. Mitt, I'm sure. I could live with that. Maybe America will have its first Mormon president. I don't like all his policy positions but at least he's not nuts.
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>>Oh he's nuts.
>>So... He believes that the angel Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith, and told him the location of some ancient golden tablets and some glasses which he then used to translate them. And these tablets, this translation told of how Jesus Christ came to the new world. And the words in this book of Mormon also require that all faithful zealots wear magic underwear.
>>Now the above sentences aren't even really disputable. That's just a synopsis of what mormon faith is. I'm not even gonna get into the dozens of murders which took place at the behest of Brigham Young, their megalomaniacal sociopathic leader. And now to speak of the Mormon Wars somehow is... forbidden? Why?
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>But its okay to believe in a book that talks about wholesale genocide, incestuous relationships, a leader (who killed a man in anger) climbing a mountain (not once, but twice) to commune with a spirit that wrote his laws on stone tablets with his finger, etc. etc. etc.
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>You can extrapolate any religious belief to be zany if you so choose to take the facts and isolate them and pervert them..

Yes, hence one of the reasons I'm agnostic. I never seem to be able to get over the fact that I consider otherwise reasonable people could fall for such hog-wash. I remember watching one of the debates not too long ago and the moderator asked them to raise their hand if they didn't believe in evolution and believed that God created everything in a few days. Sure enough they all raised their hands. I mean REALLY people? Hellooooo WAKE UP! Welcome to the 21st century!