I've seen that video before. Ultimately, there is some truth in it but most of it is quite twisted. We believe that Joseph Smith was a Prophet just like Moses and Noah were in their times. Just like Prophets of the past, God continues to reveal truth through his modern day prophets. If God is the same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow you wouldn't expect him to change his way of revealing truths to us here on earth.
Also, the racism in that video is uncalled for. The biggest problem is that just like in any church different members have beliefs that may vary. Someone at one time read the scriptures and determined that Africans got their skin color for being non-righteous. That is not official church doctrine at all. Ultimately we don't know the purpose of different races. The church has not made any official claims on it but members have given their own ideas. We treat all races equally and currently have more church members outside of the US than in it. A lot of other things in the video were twisted to make us sound like perverts and ultimately I am offended by the way that they treated our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in that video. I do worship my Savior and I'm appalled that someone would make him out to be some dirty downplayed pervert.
At the end of the video they make a statement and change one word which really ruins the entire thing. The video says:
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The Mormons thank God for Joseph Smith who claimed that he had done more for us then any other man including Jesus Christ.
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That quote is so wrong. No one in the church ever claimed that and no one in this church would ever believe that any man could ever do more than the man who suffered and died for our sins so that we could be forgiven. That quote came by twisting the words in this scripture which I copied from the church's official website:
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Joseph Smith, the aProphet and bSeer of the Lord, has done more, csave Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.
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We believe that by restoring the true church of Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith did do a lot for us. It was more than any other man except Jesus Christ but you can't even really compare the 2 tasks. What Christ did was by far the most important act that ever happened.
The biggest problem with today's world is ignorance. Someone talks to a Mormon, hears a thing or two and then see's a video like that with a few things right and a lot of things wrong. I'm sorry but I don't feel that you can call yourself a Christian if you knock a church that believed whole heartedly that their savior is Jesus Christ and it's only by him and through him that we can return to live with God. Joseph Smith himself was murdered by "Christians." Christ taught that we should love everyone so why is their all of this hatred from his believers?