Mormon missionary work now includes writing Amazon reviews

[SecularMotion]

In the ongoing game to turn Amazon product reviews into subreddits about everything from mass shootings to Sandy Hook trutherism, there’s a new player: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It’s recently come to light that a Mormon chapter in Provo, UT, has been directing their members to leave five-star reviews on the product page of Joseph Smith’s one-hit-wonder, The Book Of Mormon.

Daryl Lindsay for KUTV.com reports:

Amazon users are responding after leaders at a Brigham Young University ward reportedly asked students to post five-star reviews on The Book of Mormon’s Amazon page.

Amid 5-star reviews that have appeared on the page, some users say it was unethical for church leaders to solicit reviews from members.

In the Provo Young Single Adults 9th Ward’s Facebook group, according to posts published on Imgur and in a Reddit thread, the stake presidency and the bishopric requested all members of the ward publish positive reviews of the book on Amazon.

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[2naSalit]

1. At least one can tell...

I mean, there really aren't all that many converts, not as many as the "born into" numbers they create with their birth rate.

Now, if they are writing bad reviews for things they object to ideologically, that's different.

[Mariana]

2. I like Mark Twain's review of that book.

It begins:

“All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the “elect” have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so “slow,” so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.”