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Nick705 Wrote: Jun 21, 2012 6:16 PM
How anyone with an IQ above room temperature can believe this preposterous absurdity is beyond me. But they do. It's the fastest-growing religion. My own opinion is that Smith started the thing as a practical joke. After all - MORONI? But it got out of his control. Maybe he intended to call the new cult Morons, but couldn't write, so someone else slipped the second "m" in.
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Nick705 Wrote: Jun 21, 2012 6:16 PM
at which the wife kicks him out. Attempting to spread the word, Smith finds the public unappreciative, and is lynched. The movement does eventually take hold, though, with some gullible Americans (there's always been a great pool of these to tap, as proved by the millionaire TV preachers) and the Mormons Go West to set up shop in Utah. Apart from slaughtering a wagon train here or there, they then settle down to a peaceful life of polygamy, their fundamental beliefs including such things as that black and Indian people were given their dark skins because of their sins.
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Nick705 Wrote: Jun 21, 2012 6:14 PM
word. One of the first people he related this all to was conned him into giving him money (sounds like most religions in this respect) to carry on his missionary work. The man's wife, more skeptical, demanded that Smith show some proof of his divine calling. Smith who, it turned out couldn't write, said that he would do so, but they couldn't watch him; they had to erect a blanket in the house and behind this he would recite the Book that he had seen on the scrolls, using something he called a Seer Stone that would make the words appear to him with his head in a bucket (I'm not making this up!) The man's wife wrote it all down, then insisted that he start at the beginning again. The second time round, Smith's account was quite different,
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