Joseph Smith vs….
Joseph Smith made a lot of big claims. So have leaders of other religious start-ups. Following is a list of fledgling religious leaders that have made similar claims to Smith. It is pretty interesting to see the comparisons: …David Koresh David Koresh is infamous. He was also a polygamist. His people weren’t. He encouraged celibacy among them – even the married ones. But he himself, he was definitely a polygamist. Once, surrounded by his followers, he quirked his head as if hearing something - and then this happened: “…Koresh claimed all marriages in the group were dissolved and that all of the women would be his “wives” if he wanted them, even though Koresh was legally married to one woman, Rachel Jones. “David Koresh’s justification for taking all of the women for himself was theological … he’s the one that had the power, he’s the one that had the authority to ‘give the seed,’” [David] Bunds said, adding that if he had sex with a woman, Koresh w...