Posted on 02/26/2009 9:03:08 AM PST by greyfoxx39
There will undoubtedly be many threads posted on this on FR.
The claims of the Joseph Smith Papers Project to be making available historical documents leave out the fact that for many decades, the LDS church has bought up and had control of many of the historical documents, and has forbidden access to them. Now, we are to see the extensive rewrite of mormon history, prepared by and controlled by mormons.
Ping
Yeah, I see they didn’t mention the civil suit where Smith was using occult devination practices to defraud people.
Wow, a religion with a sordid history it wishes it did not have, how distinct to Mormonism that is. /S
This was part of Smith's reply...
"…I have more to boast of 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...When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go." (History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 408, 409) - FLDS/LDS founder Joseph Smith, during his lying polygamy denial sermon
It is a perfect cover to rewrite their own history and join the others in proclaiming all those questioning their ”scholarship” as bigoted fascist...
LOL so what if he was a polygamist. Mohammed was almost certainly a multiple child rapist. Every religion was founded on some lies. And no great man is as great as we wish them to be.
Except for Obama.
Pretty effective when the church has controlled access to a good part of the historical documents and forbidden access to them by outsiders.
Too bad the Internet came along and is filled with documents that aren't inaccessible to the public.
Well we have heard fron the Romaney campaign...
Who’s “Romaney”?
Romney, your boss.
"Fillings, nothing more than fillings"...
What? Have they ducked looking into Joseph Smith's conviction for glass-looking in 1826?
Here's what a few Web sites mention about this:
Four years before the Book of Mormon was published, Joseph Smith was arrested, jailed, and brought into court in Bainbridge, New York on the charge of being "a disorderly person and an impostor" in connection with his use of a peep stone to search for buried treasure. While the evidence indicates he was found guilty of this charge, the young Joseph was apparently released on the condition that he leave the area. ( Quinn, pp. 44ff.; and H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters, Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record (Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates, 1994), pp. 70ff.)
The original court record of these charges were discovered in 1971. Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley, of Brigham Young University, wrote, "if this court record is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith." (Hugh W. Nibley, The Myth Makers, p. 14, 1961) This is from 1826 Bill of Justice Albert Neely. (Courtesy Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Chenango County Office Building, Norwich, New York.) Source: http://www.letusreason.org/LDS14.htm
Another Web site mentions a book called Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon, by David Persuitte, published by McFarland & Company. The Web site says: This small book offers detailed coverage of Joseph's 1826 trial for "glass-looking," the parallels between Ethan Smith's A View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon, and Thomas Dick's possible influence on the Book of Abraham and Mormon doctrine. Persuitte provides extensive excerpts from primary sources that are rarely mentioned in most other books, but which anyone interested in the origins in the Book of Mormon should be aware of. http://zarahemlacitylimits.com/essays/misc/RecommendReading.html
I’d prefer you stayed on topic, but I’m no moderator or anything.
I am dead solid in the middle of it ye who is aptly named...
The Kirkland bank scam...
Wasnt Smith fined $1,000 but he didnt pay it ???
Reminds me of L Ron Hubbard.
Yeah, but he confessed his “church” was a scam, and people still came...
So I guess we should give a couple of brownie points to the LDS faithful...
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