Joe Smith’s Family Practiced Witchcraft

A New Witness for Christ in America, ‘Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet…,’  2:384; “This Joseph Smith, Senior, we soon learned, from his own lips, was a firm believer in witchcraft and other supernatural things; and had brought up his family in the same belief. He also believed that there was a vast amount of money buried somewhere in the country; that it would someday be found; that he himself had spent both time and money searching for it, with divining rods, but had not succeeded in finding any, though sure that he eventually would.” – Francis W. Kirkham

Galatians 5:19-21; “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Last week we saw testimony of someone in the community the Smith family lived in who spoke about the witchcraft they participated in. This interview of Joseph Smith, Sr. leaves no room for second guessing or insinuations. The Smith family had no shame whatsoever about their godless activities and sadly, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree… 

Remarkably, the Church doesn’t seem to have a problem with the Smith family practicing witchcraft seeing as how this book was published by LDS.inc 

If you’re LDS what are your thoughts about this?

Does it give you pause?

Would God call someone practicing witchcraft to be a prophet for Him?