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To: ComeUpHigher
CUH, No need to be embarrassed. I thought you were a male at first. It happens. We move on.

Not sure what you mean when you write, "For just one of many examples of your insults/attacks in this thread, I refer you to post 122: “I don’t know if the mormonite church . . .” I’m sure that was your polite way of referring to my church."

Mormonite is how mormons were referred to in the early days of their founding by newspapers - way back when Mr. Smith was traveling the northeast US looking for treasure. Nothing wrong with that at all. It isn't an insult.

In fact, if you would like to read some early accounts of your faith, I suggest you take a look at this link: http://olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1877Purp.htm

There are many articles reprinted from the 1800s you may find of interest. Shocking stuff too.

here is a quote from one that uses the name "mormonite"...

In the sixth number of your paper I saw a notice of a sect of people called Mormonites; and thinking that a fuller history of their founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., might be interesting to community, and particularly to your correspondent in Ohio, where, perhaps, the truth concerning him may be hard to come at, I will take the trouble to make a few remarks on the character of that infamous imposter.

For several years preceding the appearance of his book, he was about the country in the character of a glass-looker: pretending, by means of a certain stone, or glass, which he put in a hat, to be able to discover lost goods, hidden treasures, mines of gold and silver, etc. Although he constantly failed in his pretensions, still he had his dupes who put implicit confidence in all his words. In this town, a wealthy farmer, named Josiah Stowell, together with others, spent large sums of money in digging for hidden money, which this Smith pretended he could see, and told them where to dig; but they never found their treasure.


128 posted on 03/02/2010 4:42:30 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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131 posted on 03/03/2010 11:12:25 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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