Yes. He prophesied of the Civil War thirty years before it happened. He called the state that would start it and the political issue that would cause it. Joseph Smith died in 1844, 16 years before it happened. If you're really curious (I have a feeling you aren't) you can talk with some missionaries. http://mormon.org/missionaries/

It's called the Book of Mormon. It's a record of prophets that lived among the American Indiand anciently. They recorded their teachings of Christ, the history of their peoples, and how they dealt with the teachings of Christ. It's translated into over 160 languages, and missionaries are daily giving out copies for free. All they ask is that you evaluate it and make your own decision on what to do about it. You can let them know you want one online (http://mormon.org/missionaries/), and they will bring one to your house.

It's interresting that you define Christianity by dogma created at the Nicene creed over 300 years after the birth of Christ. So a true beleif in the saving power of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with being a Christian in your book, just blindly following what a supercommity of Roman and Greek philosophers dictated as Christian beleifs in 325 AD. I'm glad you make that clear in your article.

I think the article has some very good points, but I'm a little skeptical when the author is a trial lawyer and all of his sources are from the American Association of Justice. If there are other studies from other organizations or reported by other organizations supporting the authors points, I would be much more supportive of his view.