Not just Mormonism, all Christian and Islamic branches are basically fan fictions based on the original books.
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way. There are no supernatural books or stories. All kinds of people claim they hear the voice of god, it’s the popularity of these specific stories that defines them as religions.
Science shows religion stories fit the pattern of schizophrenia: https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-joseph-campbell-inward-journey-schizophrenia-and-mythology/
Community. They do it for other reasons than the stories. They will defend the stories and say they aren’t literal because you are on the outside. And once you are on the outside it’s usually where you stay.
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way.
Indoctrination from an early age explains it.
Santa and Easter Bunny we indoctrinate people into at a young age and we don’t have trouble explaining that they are fiction… still are useful stories.
Isn’t the Quran more like a series reboot/re-imagining?
Quran recognizes Torah, book of David and the gospels of Jesus as word of god. They just don’t recognize Jesus as a divine beint, he’s instead another prophet.
The funniest part about it all, is that the Muslim says that anyone that doesn’t believe is an infidel, yet the Jews think anyone that doesn’t believer is a dirty Gentile, I guess that makes Christians double filth?
careful if they see this they’ll argue which of the movies came first