Please, please don't ever suppose that the Mormon "scriptures" are comparable to the Bible. The Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith, the son of a man who spent way too much time looking for buried treasure (especially that of Captain Kidd) and his very superstitious wife. Smith's tome is an Epic Fail in the archaeology department. For example, it claims that all of the following were around in the pre-Columbus New World:
horses, cattle, sheep, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, metallurgy (coins, "steel swords"), chariots, written languages, a massive temple
But there is no evidence whatsoever for any of these until up to 2000 years after Smith said they were in the Americas.
This "history" even describes a humongous battle in what is now upstate New York, on a hill that is now owned by the Mormon institution. Imagine a fight with 2,000,000 casualties, yet with no trace of evidence that it ever happened. Hmmm...I wonder why they're not doing any excavating, or allowing others to?
Smith even wrote that Jesus Christ was born in Jerusalem.
Mormonism teaches that every male Mormon must strive to become a god. Does that sound like anything remotely resembling Christianity?
If you're looking for a place to worship during this Holy Week, please don't visit any Mormon institution that has the audacity to call itself a church.
