"that my name should be had for good and evil...

[_Johannes]

...among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people."

Such was the prophecy spoken by the Angel Moroni on the prophet Joseph Smith.

I don't know about all nations, kindreds and tongues, but certainly within the Mormon and ex-Mormon community, it seems to me that there are names other than Joseph Smith which are much more heatedly spoken of for good and evil.

It was the John Dehlin threads that got me thinking about this. If you want to rack up 20 pages of heated discussion on this board, don't start a thread about Joseph Smith, start one about John Dehlin. But it's not just Dehlin. I've noticed that Hugh Nibley has the same effect. So does Daniel C. Peterson. Yet none of these men ever held high office in the church. They weren't even GAs, let alone prophets.

Are there any other examples of figures aside from Joseph Smith who fulfil Moroni's prophecy? I'm guessing that Bruce McConkie and Ezra Taft Benson would have had the same notoriety in their day - for reasons to do with their right-wing politics rather than their apostolic calling.

[_grindael]

Donny Osmond.