"I have more to boast about than ever any man had.  I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam.  A large majority of the whole have stood by me.  Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.” 

     Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism [1])

     History of the Church, Vol. 6. pp. 408-409 (1844)