Ancient Roman understood problem faced by Post Mormons

[_Panopticon]

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles and poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”

Hypatia of Alexandria

Yes, I have found anti Mormonism to work this way. It's very insidious, especially among children who grow up in inactive families.

Funny. What is a bigger fable? Joseph Smith's assertion that a pile of bones was Zelph the White Lamanite or an "inactive" family's assertion that this is nonsense? Or what about Joseph's speculation that 2nd century papayri contained Abraham's vision on cosmology or the "inactive" family's assertion that it was an excerpt from the Book of Breathings?

Joseph Smith couldn't open his mouth without BS filling it, and you seem to suggest that anti-Mormons are the ones who are mired down in fables, myths, and poetic fantasies?

[_Panopticon]

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles and poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”

Hypatia of Alexandria

I think if you had told Hypatia she was a Roman, she might have explained to you very vigorously, and in Greek, that she decidedly was not.

You might as well have told Gandhi he was British.

Good point. Although Alexandria was certainly part of the Roman empire in AD 350, there is no evidence she was a Roman citizen.