Reaganaut: I thought either Joseph Smith was a verifiable genius or it had to be inspired.”
SD: I believe both are true.
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Well, Saundra, Joey Smith was quite a guy to come up with those lines to seduce the unwilling girls...
Angels with flaming swords, would kill Joey if the girl didnt have illicit sex with him...
The mormon god told him she must or else..
If she didnt have illicit sex with Joey she wouldnt go to the mormon afterlife...
If she didnt have sex with him her parents wouldnt go to the mormon after life...
and of course as Joey Smith himself decided that he would be the one who lets mormons into the mormon after life and decides who goes or not... that was quite a stroke of “genius” on his part..
Hugh Hefner could take lessons...
D&C 132 was the original Playboy c 1830...
Was Joey “inspired” ???
Of course he was...
Sexual deviants and conmen and bank scam artists usually are..
Joey Smith had to always stay one step in front of the law,
one reason beyond the people he scammed and stole from with his hair brained money making schemes..be they “glass looking” for Spanish gold with the same rock from his hat that he used to so called “write” the book of mormon..
and one excuse in front of the unwilling virgins he was attempting to beguile into his or her bed...whether he had to go to the exasperating extreme (in his mind) of pretending to “marry” her in secret using one of his buddies as a phony “marrying man”..
Yeah ol Bro Joe was quite the lad...
Nana, “thought either Joseph Smith was a verifiable genius or it had to be inspired.” was NOT me. Not sure where Saundra got that quote, but the only inspiration JS had, IMO, was satanic.