A religion that is greatly misunderstood. Many only know them because of their missionaries that visit door-to-door. Many misconceptions are that they can have more than
one wife. That is a lie. When the church was restored by Joseph Smith (who was not a crazy guy) everyone was allowed to have more than
one wife. Another, we do not offer money to God or Jesus, it's called tithing. It is given to the church to pay for more churches, temples, the MTC (Missionary Training Center), etc. Another is that
people believe we created a new
Bible. That is incorrect. Joseph Smith recovered the Book of Mormon about a century ago after praying to God, asking about which religion to join. God answered said none were right. We also do not believe that you have to be a mormon, or you'll go to hell. Only those who are truly evil go to hell (murderers, rapists, ect.) Some of us do have many children because one of our duties is to have as many as possible, but it isn't like we actually have hundreds like many
people joke around about. Also, we aren't really called 'Mormons,' that is just the
slang term. We are actually LDS, or Latter-Day Saints.
One last thing; we believe in God the
Father, Christ the Son, and in the Holy Ghost. They are the Godhead, separate but
one. Three different
people, all here for the same thing.
Person
1:
Hey, what church do you go to?
Person 2: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Person
1: Isn't that Mormon?
Person 2: That's what many know us by.
Person
1: Wow. Just want to say, Joseph Smith was some crazy old guy. I can'
t believe you worship him. Oh, and you
like, sacrifice money to him or something. That's just stupid.
Person 2: He wasn't crazy, he was blessed. If you actually want to learn some real facts about us then read the Book of Mormon.
