not bad for being authored by an uneducated 22 year-old living on the frontier!
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AH Joey Smith wasnt living on the frontier...
Joey Smith was living in and near civilization when he and his cronies authored/plaguarized the ficticious “book of mormon”
New York and Eastern Pennsylvania were not exactly the frontier (In all his 38 years I doubt if Joey Smith ever saw a “hostile” Indian)
The book was a plaguarized mixture of the writings of Ethan Smith (a remote cousin of Joey Smith) and Samuel Spaulding and the Christian Bible and pagan myths....
It was written with a profit in mind...Joey Smith “prophecized” that if his buddies took the new book to Canada they would sell numerous copies and become rich and famous with lots of babes for groupies with their New York Times run away Best Seller (1830 style)
But Oh noez...(Home Alone hands-on-cheeks)
It did not sell...
The mormon god had lied to Joey Smith...