Mormonism did rip off the King James Bible though.
No it did not. Religious canons are not "intellectual property" and religious founders, even sketchy and dishonest ones like Joseph Smith, are not Ye Olde Napster.
Oh yes it most certainly did. The Book of Mormon claims to outdate the King James Bible by thousands of years, and yet copies even MISTRANSLATED passages of it verbatim!
Joseph Smith was merely a common con artist (and criminal pedo rapist scum) with delusions of grandeur. Shamelessly copying the most widely read book in history and not expecting anyone to notice was not outside his wheelhouse, and says a lot about how little he thought of his marks/“followers.”
Mormonism does not and never has deserved to be treated as a respectable “religion.” And saying so is not at all like bad “edgelord atheist” talking points against all Christianity like those mentioned by the OP. It was clearly started as a cult more like Scientology than Christianity. Just because the LDS Church has in recent years purged the fundamentalists who refused to let go of the most bats—t insane (Adam-God doctrine), violent (blood atonement), misogynistic (polygamy), and bigoted (open racism against blacks) stuff they used to teach in the days of Smith and Brigham Young, and tried to whitewash themselves as a bunch of friendly wholesome squares, doesn’t change that.
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