You make an good (and interesting) argument. It doesn’t take any less logic to believe that Joseph Smith found a bunch of gold plates in a cave in the Eastern US detailing how Jesus stopped off in the new world and told the locals not to drink coffee before ascending to Heaven (or perhaps on his way) than it does to believe any other religious doctorine.

However, for the sake of argument, by that logic it doesn’t take any more to believe that hundreds of alien souls are attached to every human soul and we need “auditing” in order to get rid of them. So, what makes Scientology a cult and Mormonism a religion? That argument sort of minimizes the destinction between cults and religions. You could say that a religion doesn’t ask you to pay for services, but they sort of do (through tithe), or that a religion doesn’t tell believers not to associate with non-believers but…I think I’ll cut myself off, you know what I’m getting at.