They would be hard to compare. We don't know for sure anything Moses did or said.Warren Dew wrote:I don't think Joseph Smith was any more obviously a swindler than was Moses.Blind groper wrote:There are three modern religions that were begun by swindlers. Obviously Mormonism. Also obviously, Scientology. The third is spiritualism, which was begun by a couple of women who pretended to speak to the dead. When they had reached a great age, they admitted it was a con job, but by that time the spiritualist church was established, and continues to this day despite the confessions of its founders.
Stories were massively altered and built up, as time went on, in Moses' day and since.
All of the bullshit could have been added after his death. If he ever lived.
Joseph Smith is on written record, so we KNOW what a swindler he was.
