[Colofornian]

Whatever the truth of the matter is, Smith was surely lying about something. It couldn’t be the plates themselves, because that would mean that 8 other people would also have had to lie about seeing them. And we all know that it’s impossible to put together a pack of 8 liars. Liars just aren’t that easy to find. [Samtheman]

Surely you wrote that tongue-in-cheek! The 8 “witnesses” were anything but men of character... I’ll take it as humor :-) [aMorePerfectUnion, post #16]

Well, aMorePerfectUnion did a good summary of the "character" of the "witnesses" -- many excommunicated (I believe over half of them); not including others who left the church.

Here, read AMPU's summary: Character of the 11 Witnesses Post #805

[Graybeard58]

Well, aMorePerfectUnion did a good summary of the "character" of the "witnesses" -- many excommunicated (I believe over half of them); not including others who left the church.

I read a quote once by Mark Twain, about those "witnesses" but can't find it again.