If not God's one true church, then what?

[_Tatumn]

Not only is the question "If not Mormonism, then what?" not very profound, it's not even very interesting.

Indeed. It's a very predictable way of thinking.

If not Mormonism, then what? Then start thinking for yourself

And there's the forbidden fruit of the God's-one-true anything. Thou shalt not think for thyself. Follow the dear leader. He knows the way.

[_Bazooka]

In what specific ways was the world worse off in the 1700's because Mormonism didn't exist, than it has been in the 1800's, 1900's and now 2000's as a direct result of Mormonism's existence?