Mormon Joseph Smith believed in Moon Aliens?

Poor mormons : ( the real hard core apologists think everyone is anti mormon who criticize them. They aren't encouraged to ask about the history of their founder, or the temple, or anything that would give the megamoroni corp a bad name. Poor poor brainwashed folks

Joseph Smith Aliens

This is such a common anti-Mormon tactic, holding Mormon historical figures to a standard that no religious figures of the day could meet and then surmising you've proved Mormonism to be wrong.

If you studied all the words of every religions leader in the 1800's do you think you could find even one that didn't have some bizarre belief that science has since disproved? Would that negate the truth in those religions?

One caveat, the Tanners have made a lot of unsubstantiated charges against Joseph Smith. I didn't take the time to look this one up and make sure he actually said it. But whether he did or didn't has no bearing on the truth of the Mormon church.

What do you mean by rationalize?

How in the world would they know if there were or were not men on the mooon?

First, the "quote" from Joseph Smith was copied from a journal that was not Joseph's. So, he COULD have said it. But then, what difference does it make? He never said "Thus saith the Lord" so it wasn't even revelation from God.

The quote from Brigham Young WAS his own opinion, and he clearly states that.

"Do you think it is inhabited? I RATHER THINK IT IS."

I think that if YOU had lived back then, YOU might also think it was inhabited.

There are some pretty well known confidence tricksters who have made up various frauds. Some of them find that people will believe what they say when they start with a fairly mild fantasy about one thing or another that might be true though it probably is not.

As time passes they find that they can get away with even more improbable or impossible lies and some people will still believe them.

There are at least three good examples of this. Joseph Smith is one.

Another was Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, who started with a book called Dianetics which was partly copied from Sigmund Freud and contains a lot of stuff that might have been true or was not very far "off the planet". When he found he had believers, the stories got wilder and wilder and some people still believed what he said.

In science, the fraud who created the Piltdown hoax was Charles Dawson. He started with a few pieces of a human cranium which he claimed to have found in a pit near Piltdown Common. it was very thick, but there was no particular reason why his story might not have been true. As time went on other "fossils" began to turn up, many of which had never been seen in England before but some of them might just have been genuine. Then he "found" an ape jaw which was within a few paces of where the cranium was. Since there was an unpopular idea that the human cranium developed before the jaw, it might just have been part of the same being, though some people didn't agree. One of the things found toward the end of the dig resembled a cricket bat!

What this is all about is confidence men pushing their luck. if you studied the current fraud David Icke (spelling?) you will probably find the same sort of thing. Start with a story that isn't too far fetched and ends up with reptilian shape changers impersonating world leaders.

Thou shalt not bear false witness.

There is no proof that Joseph Smith said that there were people on the Moon.

Brigham Young made an obscure off the cuff remark, about what he thought might be the case. Brigham Young's speculations do not affect the gospel of Jesus Christ one iota.

God and God's angels can go anywhere they want, including the moon and the sun. And there is nothing that you, a mere mortal, can do about that. So therefor certainly Brigham Young made an accurate and logical statement, as far as that is concerned.

http://mormon.org/ Chat.

God bless.

People lived on the sun. Brigham young did that one maybe. Because it has went celestial. Moon is on its way, and the earth will get there...

a lot of people from that time (or this one) did.........

they are men who have ideas and opinions. the LDS do not expect any man - even a prophet - to be perfect

That's not so bad when you realize there was a time when a lot of educated people believed there were canals on Mars.

Mormons have a lot of weird tales, whether or not they are actually believed remains to be seen.