[Aequitas]

Always enjoy your posts shetlan.

Do you have a reference at all for the necromancy charge? I've gone through a lot and all I could find was a story in which Alvin Smith's grave was allegedly disturbed, and Joseph Smith Sr. denied it. Are you possibly referring to baptism for the dead?

The Bible is a collection of documents arranged in a number of councils including the Synod of Hippo, which separated sacred scripture from the apocrypha. A bunch of bishops(excuse me for my inaccuracy) decided which writings were sacred, not God, Christ or even any of his apostles.
Apparently you don't know much about the Book of Mormon either. The plates weren't invisible. If you look right inside the Book of Mormon there are writings from 11 witnesses who each saw and handled the plates. Several of these witnesses left the church for one reason or another, but still didn't deny that they saw the plates.

First off, polygamy was taught by Jews long before Christ and long after. God found it most definitely "acceptable." I put the number of polygamists in the Bible somewhere around thirty. Mosaic law even requires it at times. As for them being far away from their husband's daily life, the law also stated that the husband should attend to his first wife first. If you have to attend to that many spouses(or is it it spice?) in order, I'm sure a few will be left out.

I never said that it was "good," I think it was a bad idea in the first place; what I'm saying is that it occured during Christ's time and the whole idea is that the LDS church is that it's the same as Christ's. Just because a leader made a bad decision, doesn't necessarily mean that the the organization is bad, so long as it is fixed. That's like saying since the president makes a mistake, the entire country has gone bad. Many leaders opposed plural marriage, including Brigham Young who had 55 wives even though he strongly disliked the practice. I admit the Joseph was a crackpot on that, but still, the issue was eventually resolved.

As far as throwing away teachings, Christ was a heretic who disobeyed the law of Moses, as were all of his followers. Paul, perhaps the greatest missionary of all time, went from an extremist Christian killing Jew, to an apostle. Every protestant faith went against one teaching or another, not only Mormons. To dislike Mormonism based on that is to dislike Christianity as a whole. And every religion is considered lunacy by somebody. Would you believe it if someone walked up to you on the street and said "I am the son of God and I've come to die for you and save you from sin."? From the voice of your posts I'm guessing you'd roll your eyes, call him a drunk and a moron and then push past him. May I ask what you believe in Shetlan?