4.06.1830 - Religion has always fascinated me. When I found out there was a religion that allowed a man to have as many wives as he wanted, I considered converting. Thankfully I'm older now, and have realized that trying to keep one woman happy is all the challenge a man should ever need...
Mormons. More specifically Joseph Smith, the author of the Book of Mormon, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and America's first advocate for plural marriage. It was on this day in history that Smith founded the institution that would later become the backdrop for the kick-ass HBO original series "Big Love" starring Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin.
It is in my opinion that Joseph Smith was one of the greatest entrepreneurs to ever live. Smith obviously saw a segment of the religious market whose needs weren't being met and took full advantage of it by claiming that an angel had given him a set of golden plates inscribed with an ancient message that only he could translate. Thus the Book or Mormon was born...
It amazes me that people buy any of that shit. Some guy comes out and says that he found instructions on how to live life inscribed in his grandmother's china and nobody says wait a minute, something doesn't add up? If the New Testament were written by one writer, and that one writer had a younger brother, and that younger brother tried to write a book like his big brother's, the result would be the horseshit that makes up the Book of Mormon. Seriously, if you need a good laugh, thumb threw it sometime- it reads like one of Hunter S. Thompson's Mad Libs...
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