Why do Mormons exist?

I have always wondered why do Mormons exist?  Their beginnings have
been refuted, their texts examined and declared fakes and plagerized.
Yet still the religion is going on, and there are three million of
them or there abouts. I turned two away from my door the other day.
Joesph Smith was obviously a fraud, and still it continues to become
more powerful.  The chruch has much political influence, has much
wealth. How much, no one knows.  How can a religion come from such a
fraudulent background and succeed?  I know a couple of Mormon
families, they seem nice, their children are nice.  I see them as good
people.  Until I read the Book of Mormons.  If you can read that and
believe it, you are not the brightest bulb on the block.  The
archaeology absolutely kills any dimmest hope any of it as anything
but a fraud.  But it still it grows.  Has anyone got any views on
this?  One is running for President this year, and yet I hear
distrubing rumours about them actually wanting to overthrow the
constitution and instituting their own values on the American people.
Does anyone else here that?  Has any one read "One Nation Under Gods"
by Richard Abanes?  He and his wife were excommunicated from the
church and the things they tell in there say they are a threat to our
Constitution.  Does anyone else know of such things?   Ken

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Truth does not give a damn what we conceive.  We survive or perish
according to our ability to discern the truth correctly and