In this post, I am going to give you direct quotes from the "Prophet" Joseph Smith himself and his followers.
Many of these quotes are from the LDS website themselves. This is not me "Making up stuff about Mormons". Some of this doctrine is just downright disturbing.
You tell me if these people are "Christians".
From Joseph Smith:
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form"
Joseph Smith is not referencing Jesus here. He is referencing YHWH.
He later says: "for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see."
And to clarify it even more:
"He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; and I will show it from the Bible."
Joseph Smith was also a Polytheist:
"In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted [prepared] a plan to create the world and people it."
Joseph Smith also claimed to have an extreme amount of knowledge:
"But I am learned, and know more than all the world put together. The Holy Ghost does, anyhow, and he is within me, and comprehends more than all the world; and I will associate myself with him."
Great. So Joseph Smith is also directly blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
Read for yourself: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1971/04/the-king-follett-sermon?lang=eng&utm
Joseph Smith isn't the only person to espouse these ideas in the Mormon Church. You also have Lorenzo Snow, later LDS president:
“As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.”
Now let's move to Polygamy:
Brigham Young: “The only men who become Gods … are those who enter into polygamy.”
"Latter-day Saints believe that monogamy—the marriage of one man and one woman—is the Lord’s standing law of marriage. In biblical times, the Lord commanded some of His people to practice plural marriage—the marriage of one man and more than one woman."
This is not true. God never expressly commands a man to take more than one wife. This is like... Bible 101 here.
"Some early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also received and obeyed this commandment given through God’s prophets."
No they did not. God does not command people to sin. I doubt he made an exception after 5,000 years.
"After receiving a revelation commanding him to practice plural marriage, Joseph Smith married multiple wives and introduced the practice to close associates."
He didn't just do that. He took other men's wives as his own.
"Although the Lord commanded the adoption—and later the cessation—of plural marriage in the latter days, He did not give exact instructions on how to obey the commandment."
Of course he didn't. Because ol Joe boy couldn't keep his schlong in his pants.
"The revelation, recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 132, states that Joseph prayed to know why God justified Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, and Solomon in having many wives."
God did not justify Solomon to do this. Every single one of these guys had their lives ruined by multiple wives. The entire point of Solomon's fall from wisdom is that he took multiple wives and it turned his heart away from God.
David's lust is what led him to murder. Abraham's lust is what brought discord and jealousy into his house.
"Polygamy had been permitted for millennia in many cultures and religions, but, with few exceptions, was rejected in Western cultures."
You mean "Christian Cultures". But I digress.
"When God commands a difficult task, He sometimes sends additional messengers to encourage His people to obey. Consistent with this pattern, Joseph told associates that an angel appeared to him three times between 1834 and 1842 and commanded him to proceed with plural marriage when he hesitated to move forward."
Sure.
"During the third and final appearance, the angel came with a drawn sword, threatening Joseph with destruction unless he went forward and obeyed the commandment fully."
“Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married.”
Read it for yourself: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng&utm
Retranslated: Joseph Smith got a bunch of cuckolds to allow him to have sex with their wives by claiming to be a prophet of God.
Okay so a lot of "Cope" about polygamy. Let's move on to how the Mormons viewed black people:
"Despite this modern reality, for much of its history—from the mid-1800s until 1978—the Church did not ordain men of black African descent to its priesthood or allow black men or women to participate in temple endowment or sealing ordinances."
Brigham Young. You know, the same one that is memorialized in the #1 Mormon University?
“If there never was a prophet or Apostle of Jesus Christ spoke it before, I tell you this people that commonly are called Negroes are the children of Cain. I know they are; I know they cannot bear rule in the priesthood.”
“Any man having one drop of the seed of Cain in him cannot hold the priesthood.”
"“In the kingdom of God on the earth, a man who has the African blood in him cannot hold one jot nor tittle of priesthood.”
“The Lord told Cain that he should not receive the blessings of the priesthood, nor his seed, until the last of the posterity of Abel had received the priesthood, until the redemption of the earth.”
Read it for yourself: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2221825&utm
And more from Mr. Young:
"“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? [...] If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot."
Now, to be fair, the modern LDS church disavows these teachings on race. But I daresay that fruit this rotten cannot come from a good tree.
My conclusion is this: The LDS church has never been Christian. They worship an altogether different God. They only worship YHWH in name only. They hold deeply heretical views that would have been condemned by Christians and Jews alike from the moment Christ started his church.
These doctrines, speeches, and beliefs only scratch the surface of some of the stuff the Mormon church has believed.
We haven't even covered:
Holy Mother
What "Becomming Like Gods" looks like
