(August 5, 2015 at 11:02 am)abaris Wrote: At about the same time Jean-François Champollion deciphered the Stone of Rosetta. There's no contest who's winning the game of stones.
And the irony there being, the Rosetta stone was used to figure out what those crazy Egyptian hieroglyphics actually meant, and unfortunately for the Mormons and poor Ol' Joe, they did not mean what Smith said when he translated other plates.
Oops. Caught in a fraud red handed he was. Liar, con man, busted. No reasonable explanation.
How they live that one down is beyond me, but a true believer can ignore facts like nothing else.
