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To: Zakeet

Nice beak and receding chin. And hairline, as well. He really was a homely twerp. No wonder that he overcompensated and created his own religion.


1,146 posted on 01/03/2011 6:24:57 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: MarkBsnr
Nice beak and receding chin. And hairline, as well. He really was a homely twerp. No wonder that he overcompensated and created his own religion.

Joseph Smith was a poorly educated man. Most historians agree that he had completed the third grade - although this claim is made without the benefit of supporting school records.

Joseph almost lost a leg due to infection when he was an eight year boy. He was forced to stay indoors and hobble around on a crutch for at least two years walked thereafter with a noticeable limp.

Joseph had no vocational training such as carpentry, black smithing, gun smithing, harness mending or saddle making.

Joseph came from a large family - his parents, Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, had 11 children. Joseph's family was impoverished - Smith Sr. was a failure at every endeavor he tried and could not hold a steady job.

In other words, Joseph was an uneducated person who was unable to perform manual labor, could not work as a tradesman, and could not live on an inheritance.

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, once said that he founded his cult because it was the quickest and easiest way he could think of to make a lot of money. In her famous biography of Joseph Smith, the noted historian Fawn Brodie convincingly argued the same applied to Joseph. He founded Mormonism because he couldn't think of a better way to make money.

1,300 posted on 01/04/2011 3:52:10 AM PST by Zakeet (Always trust in the five G's: God, Gold, Guns, Grub, and the Government screwing up)
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