Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00512)

"Steve Stubbs " wrote:
> Yes, the thing that has always amazed me about Mormonism is that it
> attracts what are clearly very high quality people and yet the
> religion is so utterly preposterous. Those two facts seem to abut
> and contradict each other. Someone pointed out in FACT magazine (I
> believe that was the name of it) that since the religion was revealed
> by an angel named Moroni, its name properly should be Moronism and
> that someone misspelled it, inadvertently adding an extra "m".

Actually, the name of the religion is NOT "Mormonism"; that was a label
put on it by non-members, although members frequently use it today,
based on their holy book, "The Book of Mormon". The name of the religion
is the Church of Latter Day Saints, or, as they usually abbreviate it,
LDS. 

This is not to detract from anything Larry said, by the way.