Timing’s everything

Last night, the first of two PBS installments on Mormonism focused on the religion’s founding and on Joseph Smith “contacts” with God, Jesus and the angel Moroni, to name just a few. No matter what anyone says, that religion’s credibility lies with Joseph Smith and his controversial character.

If the mainstream population was able to accept fables of that caliber at the turn of the 19th century, it would be extremely challenging to start a similar religion filled with weird ideas and naïve concepts in our modern western societies. Which begs to say that in religion, like in sports, timing is everything..