Maybe all religion is bunk. Much of what is recorded for "the Faithful" is murky and dubious, so did Christ walk on the water? Who knows? It is not provable one way or another.
LDS doesn't have the luxury of being so old that the relevant facts cannot be ascertained with certainty.
Joe Smith was a charlatan. He had no more ability to translate "reformed Egyptian" than I can translate farsi. This was proven by the Book of Abraham fiasco, with which anyone with an interest is familiar. The history of the BoM is provably false, now that we have the ability to check peoples' DNA. And we know that there were no horses, cattle, oxen, or other similar animals in pre-Columbian Americas, as mentioned in the BoM. Indeed, none of the indigenous people had even invented the wheel until the Europeans came along, so mention of "chariots" is simply preposterous.
I personally believe that faith is a matter of choice, so if one chooses to follow the silliness of the Book of Mormon I have no objections to that, but please, don't try to convert me. I have the ability to think logically and investigate facts.
