I say it, I dont have any problems with anyone saying it...So, are you going to let me say Merry Christmas, or not?Of course they do. Do you understand the pathos of a pathelogical liar is they typically begin to believe their own lies?
Con artists don't usually believe what they are selling. But that's a subject for a different thread. This one is about coming closer to Jesus Christ.
Joseph Smith was a fraud, who preyed upon a weakness he saw in human character and culture: the inability of the human to come to grips with the reality of death, without using Supernatural Folklore as a comfort.