Would you say the people of Joseph Smith's time were more or less credulous than our day?

Surely the story of a boy translating a collection of ancient writings by doing nothing more than looking at a rock would be met with disbelief by a vast majority of people in the 21st century.

was that true in joseph's day? christ's day?

because someone today claiming to be the son of god is likely to be considered a loon. probably with good cause.

i'm just wondering what the ratio of skeptics to believers has been throughout the ages. because it takes very little critical thinking skills to think that looking at a rock yields anything.

Less education, more superstition. Just look at all the new religions that spawned from the 1800's in the US.

Actually, the vast majority of people in Joseph Smith's days did not believe him.

This is where I invoke "the more things change, they more they stay the same." People still believe stupid shit at alarmingly high rates.

It probably is easier now to falsify religious claims due to information access, but IQ spreads haven't changed much over the years. Scientology is at least as absurd as mormonism, but that doesn't stop tons of people from signing on to it, even in our 21st-century world.



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