You might rethink that "batshit crazy." Mormon beliefs are your standard "God told prophet to write things down and start a church." No crazier than any other religion.
But, as others have mentioned, with only one exception, every Mormon I've met has been kind, honest, hard-working (with an emphasis on thrift and education) and polite. Whatever the nutty origins and strictures (no tea or coffee, but Diet Coke is ok?) of their beliefs, I have a lot of respect for the people who come out of the system.
1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1893428?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
Yea, I believe that's what I said.
Elon Musk and his belief that "we're all living in a simulations" versus the religionist's belief that God created the world as a test or classroom?
Stephen Hawking and his belief that there may be super-intelligent life forms out there that may destroy humanity versus the religionist's belief of an omniscient God that will return and destroy humanity?
Richard Dawkins when he tweets "Suppose your descendant migrates to Mars, whose colony then loses contact with Earth. You could be ancestor of all on Mars, none on Earth." versus the religionist's story of Adam and Eve?