I read the book. Truthfully, I don’t believe the Mormonizing of America is taking place. The undeniable seculariziing of America greatly eclipses Mormons and all other religious groups in America. Actually, Jews are much more influential (as are freemasons) than the more numerous LDS in American Society, while Pres. Bush, VP Cheney, and Speaker Hastert were all Methodists (now that’s impressive), and Catholics are 1/4 the electorate and by far most influential. All but the Catholics, Mormons and small Pentalcostal Churches are losing members. Even though Mormons are still growing, it is at a much slower pace that the 80′s / 90′s despite 50,000+ fulltime missionaries. When you examine the hours spent/convert ratio – the LDS perfomsnce is actually rather dismal (American bred 7th Day Adventist and Jehovahs Witnesses do much better). I like your book for its accuaracy. Though the LDS Church is a respectable and somewhat influential religious entity, you hit it on the head – the Book of Mormon is its own worst enemy and Joseph Smith & Brigham Young are most controversial when looked at under the microscope (most LDS don’t know the whole story or simply look ther other way). The LDS record on statements by past LDS Prohpets on matters of polygamy and “Black” curcse (straight from the Book of Mormon) have to be an embarrassment to some LDS. Paridoxally, the modern LDS Church rests on a foundation of sand and fraud (Jospeh SMith, Book of Mormon and his other LDS scriptures). The Book of Mormon is so clearly the work of a 19th Century American and not the egyptian hieraglyphics of ancient Americans from Israel. Your book demonstrates this. This means that Joseph Smith was a con artist (whatever good intentions he may have had) and promoted a big lie and counterfeit scripture. What amazes me is Mormons clings to the fabrication when all the evidence is so compelling. Some have argued that Mitt Romney is unqualified to be President because this successful businessman has a Joseph Smith “blind spot” and can’t see a fraud right under his nose (the Book of Abraham is also so clearly a deception by alleged “Prophet” Smith). Would Romney rubber stamp Israel actions simply because the Book of Mormon fiction says the first Americans were Jews? My prediction is that many Protestants in the Bible Belt will not vote for Romney because of his religion and that will be enough for Obama to get re-elected, and Romney and his Mormonism will fade from the radar screen.

I considered becoming a Mormon until I realized they are not Christian. They claim the Christian name, but their beliefs are counter-Christian. In fact, although they profess to revere the New and Old Testaments, they have added a third book, The Book of Mormon; a fourth, The Pearl of Great Price; and even a fifth; Doctrine and Covenant. I never knew much about Mormonism until many years ago when my wife, Loveda, and I became friends with a Mormon family in Columbus, Ohio. They were fine, hard-working, moral, and successful individuals. We were so impressed that we thought maybe there was something to Mormonism. We set out to learn more by asking them some questions regarding Mormonism.

Their answers were just what we wanted to hear, so we asked more questions – only these new questions were more specific. Of course these answers were also just right, except they kind of skirted the issue – sort of like when you ask a used car salesman a detailed technical question and he answers you with a lot of great things about the car, but never really answers your original question. Their answers were very appealing, but these fine people usually changed the subject somehow. Deception is the red flag that killed the deal for me. I lost tremendous respect for these folks because of this.

I wasn’t going to allow their deception to stop me from being part of something that I could believe in, so I investigated Mormonism further and soon discovered they are a CULT. They call themselves Christians, and I suppose legally they are not breaking any laws by doing so. But their beliefs are not orthodox Christian. BEWARE!