>Crazy?
>Of course they can be; How many Nazis were there? How many Maoists?
>The "forty million flies can't be wrong" reverse ad hominum defense
>holds no logical water. There's a lot of New Age bizarrity in
>Mormon metaphysics, and the most bizarre thing is that otherwise
>intelligent people yoke their self-esteem wagon tongues so zealously
>to the star of such an absurd doctrine.
>
What, exactly, is so absurd about the Mormon doctrine of which you speak?
Is it so absurd that Mormons believe in treating their fellow man with
respect,
being honorable, good, kind, helpful to their fellow man (i.e. following the
teachings
of Christ)? Is it so absurd that Joseph Smith was visited by God? If you
deny
the existance of God then that is one thing...but if you believe there is a
God then
why is it so absurd that he visited one of his earthly children?