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To: yldstrk
wow, Scoutmaster where did you get that list?

A combination of Wikipedia and some LDS sources. I compiled it after reading that Joseph Smith had said:

“I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam... Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.”

Source: The LDS History of The Church, 6:408–409. I'd give you the BYU Studies link to this quote from FAIRlds.org, but a typical thing happened. FAIRlds.org frequently creates footnotes and 'scholarly' links that appear to be hyperlinks in an effort to make its works look scholarly. Unfortunately a very, very large percentage of FAIR's links either are 404'd or go to stub links on the FAIR site itself, where FAIR apparently intends someday to include scholarly support for its claims, but doesn't have any yet. It looks impressive, but it's a case of the emperor having no clothes. FAIR claims to have analysis of this quote from BYU Studies, but the link goes nowhere.

80 posted on 12/27/2011 1:30:39 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster

I guess that Joseph Smith didn’t believe that “pride goeth before a fall”


81 posted on 12/27/2011 1:37:18 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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