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I think it's a matter of perspective. Thousands of years ago humans worshipped a whole different set of gods and believed in things that seem idiotic by today's standards. But at the time, that was considered normal. In today's world, mainstream Christianity is now considered normal, but smaller faiths like Mormonism, or, to take a more extreme example, cults like David Koresh are considered kooky and dangerous. What's the difference between all these things? There really isn't one. Mormons believe just as strongly as mainstream Christians that their own brand of (very recent) religious history re: Jospeh Smith etc. is real, and you would be hard pressed to let you prove them wrong. Perhaps the difference is that time and acceptance has given mainstream Christianity a veneer of respectability that these other belief systems don't have. Now, maybe there is a God, I'm not ruling that out, but if we are keeping an open mind, shouldn't a big part of that be to question and poke holes in all these things, and not simply accept the ideas that are presented to us as part of our culture and upbringing?