Posted by:
TheOtherHeber
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Date: April 12, 2014 04:00PM
I don't think J Smith was an atheist. That just doesn't fit his diaries, talks, etc. He actually believed he was a prophet and that God was with him.
Dan Vogel uploaded an excellent video on the matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4JlJaD2fksI personally think he had some kind of mental disease. If you read "Rough Stone Rolling", it is clear that he feared absolutelly nothing and no one, be it lying, beginning grandiose projects, seducing married women or doing physically heroic acts.
Perhaps it was Antisocial personality disorder or some other like it.