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What are we to make of people like Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard?
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January 1st, 2016
Joseph Smith is the founder of Mormonism and L Ron Hubbard started Scientology. We do not know much about religious leaders in the distant past, but Smith and Hubbard are fairly recent, so we should have some biographical data about them.
There are three possibilities for each of them that I can think of:
1. Religious visionary
2. Psychologically disturbed
3. Con artist
Did they believe what they preached, which would cover the first two cases, or did they make it all up to get attention or to make money? Smith claimed to have unearthed a great document which he painstakingly translated. This goes beyond hearing voices. Is this something that a person can hallucinate? If not, what are we to conclude?
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