dhw: A few weeks ago, I was accosted in the street by two charming young Mormon ladies who were pleasantly surprised that I had some knowledge of Joseph Smith. They were thus able to skip the preliminaries and go straight for the jugular: either he was a fraud, a madman, or he was telling the truth. Which did I think was correct? Bearing in mind the circumstances of his “revelation”, I'd be interested to know how you would have answered.-Finding revelations on gold tablets dug up in his backyard in upstate New York is a bit much. Polygamy is another problem. Yet the Mormon Church comes across as teaching a high level of morality, and the Mormons I know and have known have all been very fine folks.