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Twenty years ago you and your ignorant posse had already driven most Mormons away from this site with old tropes long debunked and generally regarded as far less than factual.

That's the thanks we get for posting stuff from official LDS sources?

Just follow your Scriotures and everything should work out for you:

Boyd K. Packer in his address to Church Educators "The Mantle is Far Far Greater than the Intellect".

Published in Brigham Young University Studies 21 (Summer 1981): 259-278.

In an amazing declaration Michael Quinn reports that Elder Packer told him when he was being interviewed for his position
at Brigham Young University that he has a hard time with historians "because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting:
it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth,
but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting."

(This is a telling statement of Elder Packers repressed shadow material!)

In D. Michael Quinn On Being a Mormon Historian (And Its Aftermath),

ed. George D. Smith, Faithful History: Essays On Writing Mormon History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 103.

“The new traditionalists contend that objectivity is, in fact, impossible and that history should therefore be written with certain pre-understandings, including that God exists and that Joseph Smith was his prophet.”

Just follow your Scriptures and everything should work out for you, right?

The
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 71
Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet and Sidney Rigdon, at Hiram, Ohio, December 1, 1831. HC 1: 238–239. The Prophet had continued to translate the Bible with Sidney Rigdon as his scribe until this revelation was received, at which time it was temporarily laid aside so as to enable them to fulfill the instruction given herein. The brethren were to go forth to preach in order to allay the unfriendly feelings that had developed against the Church as a result of the publication of some newspaper articles by Ezra Booth, who had apostatized.
1–4, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are sent forth to proclaim the gospel; 5–11, Enemies of the saints shall be confounded.
1 Behold, thus saith the Lord unto you my servants Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, that the time has verily come that it is necessary and expedient in me that you should open your mouths in proclaiming my gospel, the things of the kingdom, expounding the mysteries thereof out of the scriptures, according to that portion of Spirit and power which shall be given unto you, even as I will.
2 Verily I say unto you, proclaim unto the world in the regions round about, and in the church also, for the space of a season, even until it shall be made known unto you.
3 Verily this is a mission for a season, which I give unto you.
4 Wherefore, labor ye in my vineyard. Call upon the inhabitants of the earth, and bear record, and prepare the way for the commandments and revelations which are to come.
5 Now, behold this is wisdom; whoso readeth, let him understand and receive also;
6 For unto him that receiveth it shall be given more abundantly, even power.
7 Wherefore, confound your enemies; call upon them to meet you both in public and in private; and inasmuch as ye are faithful their shame shall be made manifest.
8 Wherefore, let them bring forth their strong reasons against the Lord.
9 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you—there is no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;
10 And if any man lift his voice against you he shall be confounded in mine own due time.
11 Wherefore, keep my commandments; they are true and faithful. Even so. Amen.

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