Anti-Mormon DVD annoys Mormons

EPHRAIM, Utah, April 27 (UPI) -- Evangelical Christians have distributed thousands of copies of an anti-Mormon DVD, packaged to look as if it comes from the Mormons.

Chip Thompson, director of Tri-Grace Ministries in Ephraim, Utah, told ABCNEWS.com that 500,000 discs have been mailed, with 200,000 more waiting.

"They have been sent as far away as Chile, Ireland, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia," he said.

The disc's packaging says "He Is Risen!" on one side with the names of Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, on the other side.

While LDS leaders say the DVD is riddled with lies and distortions, Thompson said everything is backed up. Smith said he received a new revelation, "The Book of Mormon," when an angel, Moroni, showed him tablets.

Thompson said he is getting thousands of responses to the DVD, one-third positive, one-third negative and one-third from outraged Mormons.

In Park City, Utah, where residents received the DVD in a mass mailing, most of the discs appeared to end up in the trash, ABCNEWS.com said. Park City, in spite of being in the Mormon heartland, is a mostly secular town.