Mormania

As the Royal Family in England has made a cottage industry around the Queen, the Mormons have done the same around the fictional stories of Joseph Smith complete with registered trademarks, and copyrighted symbols of Moroni the angel in kid's games. A few years ago a coffee shop having a little fun got in trouble for using a picture of Moroni the Mormon angel having coffee poured into his trumpet.  When shirts and ads began showing up with Moroni doing coffee the church came after them with the big legal guns.  Coffee is a no-no for Mormons so that was the ultimate blasphemy. It is one thing to copyright translations of bibles in effort to pay expenses of printing and paying the scholars for their well earned labor but I wonder what Jesus would think of merchandising the message of salvation and symbols such as the cross?  Why hasn't Rome made the cross a registered trade mark?  They could demand that everyone wearing a cross would have to pay or at least pas...

While visiting Utah you are likely to find a picture of the local  Mormon temple hanging on your motel wall to help you have heavenly dreams. There will be a Book of Mormon in the desk drawer and occasionally a  King James bible either from the Gideons or the Mormon church. If you are one of those who have a plastic Jesus or a statue of Mary  on the dash of your car, you can now get a statue of a Mormon missionary  for your collection.  You will likely to be much safer on the road however  if you are wearing your magic Mormon underwear. https://youtu.be/p6J-BEq_bdU