Posted on 01/04/2010 9:03:14 PM PST by delacoert
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A new Web site pitching itself as a Mormon myth-buster recently launched, causing me once again to wonder about why we Latter-day Saints take so much joy in spreading unsubstantiated stories about ourselves.
The site, HolyFetch.com, is run by Casey Cummings, a resident of Kaysville, Utah, who says he got interested in the world of Mormon myths when he was on his mission in Austria.
The site's basic format is similar to that of sites like snopes.com. People submit popular Mormon myths, and then Cummings investigates them and deems them either "true" or "false."
I'm frankly surprised that something like this hasn't been created by now. Or maybe it has been, and it just isn't very well publicized. In any case, the fact that such a Web site exists (and is enjoying moderate success by most accounts) is a comment, I think, on LDS culture.
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(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Dunn never successfully explained how telling falsehoods can promote good morals. Instead, he compared his stories to the parables of Jesus and said, "I haven't purposely tried to embellish or rewrite history. I've tried to illustrate points that would create interest." Dunn added that he was, "...simply putting history in little finer packages" (The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, February 16, 1991 2B).
Dunn's theory that "theological and moral points" can be found in stories that have no basis in history is similar to the whole concept of the Mormonism itself. Like Dunn's stories, the foundations of Mormonism -- like the amazing account of the Book of Mormon and the story of Joseph Smith's first vision -- cannot be independently verified as historical events.
So, the thing about the writing on the underwear is...?
I don’t think Dunn’s tall tales qualify as urban legends. They were all about him, rather than a “friend of a friend” or a relative of an in-law or some other such distant acquaintance.
But we all know that Mormons are born with horns!
maybe there are explosives in that mormon underwear
the only problem i have with Mormons is now they are embracing homosexuals?
why?
correct me if I’m wrong but Dunn & cohorts,etc & et.,al do not publicly DENY the Old Testament & New Testament as we know it in western civ, right?
They just have their own version.
SUpposed they came out & decried O&N Testament as truth ? what would happen then?
imho i think mormons are seriously mis-guided
HURRY!!!!
more fake "churches" to build. Bring on more Cultists!!!
Folks actually know about the fake mormon cult, right?
Nothing archaeologically or anthropologically is real about anything mormon; nothing can or will ever be proven in anything Joe EVER said.
The founder of mormon was a con man and a fraud. Who keeps buying into this smoke and mirrors?
Does anyone looking for a religion have any brain power?
You can read all the truths on mormonism right HERE by hundreds of former mormon folk.
I believe Dunn has passed away, and he said very little that I know of after his story telling came to light.
I imagine he would say he supports the Old and New Testament, since that is the LDS Church line.
No, the horns come after they go to H#LL.
why would the mormons say......support the KJV of O&N testament for example when there is their bible
just curious,that’s all.
Would that be their birth into preexistence or their natural birth?
But it is the Reformed Mormons who have the copyright to Joseph Smith jr.’s version of the Bible. The Reformed Mormons are centered in Independence Mo. and are friendly rivals of the Utah based church.
I think someone here @FR has a Mormon Ping List ///it would be best to post this info there
I think someone here @FR has a Mormon Ping List ///it would be best to post this info there
Hooo Boy did you just open a can of moroni!
The biggest myth told by the LDS group is that Joseph Smith was led by an angel to a book with gold pages, written in “Reformed Egyptian,” that told the “history” of the Americas. If they can swallow that camel, then the gnats of their modern urban legends are quite easily gulped down.
If you want a real hoot, google “reformed Egyptian”
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