(October 15, 2015 at 1:30 pm)goodwithoutgod Wrote: Deep dive into the Mormon cult
To begin, lets do a quick short summary of mormonism:
- Joseph Smith "translated" golden plates given to him by God into english, but he did not translate the "reformed egyptian" into contemporary english - instead he translated them into King James style english. Coincidentally, Joe Smith grew up reading the King James Bible.
Well, yeah, old-timey english was what people expected scriptures to be written in so he was just meeting demand. And it wasn't coincidence he grew up with the KJV, it was by design. Yeesh, don't you know anything?
Quote:- The Book of Mormon claims the following tools existed in ancient MesoAmerica: chariots, steel swords, bellows for blacksmithing, and silk. None of these were in the Americas until the Columbian exchange.
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Quote:- The BoM describes a vast civilization of millions who inhabited cities for hundreds of years, yet no ruins from even a single BoM city have ever been identified. No BoM place-names were in use when Europeans arrived in the New World.
God zapped them off the face of the planet because having evidence of their existence wouldn't require you to have faith and you have to have faith.
Quote:- The BoM peoples had a seven-day week, but no Mesoamerican calendar matches this.
That's because Satan went around changing the calendars of the Mesoamericans so we'd be misled into not believing in God.
Quote:- The BoM says that the Native Americans descended from Hebraic (Semitic) origins. However through archaeology and DNA testing, we know that Native Americans descend from Asiatic origins.
That was merely a consequence of cleaning the blood - you know, like when God cleaned the blood of Adam and Eve's kids so they wouldn't be committing incest...
Quote:- There are no examples of "reformed Egyptian" in Mesoamerican history. And no Native American language is related to either ancient Egyptian or Hebrew, whereas a relationship does exist between Native American languages and Asian (Siberian) languages.
Oh, God, uh, cleaned the languages too.
Quote:- As shown in the Mormon South Park Episode, a woman stole a "translation" from Joseph Smith, and demanded that he replace it with an exact copy saying, "If this be a divine communication, the same being that revealed it to you can easily replace it." Smith refused, and wrote the same manuscript from a different point of view.
Smith didn't refuse to retranslate that portion of the BOM, God told him he wasn't worthy to retranslate it and made him translate Nephi's words instead of Lehi's words. Pshaw, don't you know anything??
Quote:- Joseph Smith was given real egyptian from an ancient Egyptian burial to translate (this was pre-Rosetta stone, and Egyptian could not be read). Modern day scholars agree that his translation is entirely manufactured and incorrect.
That's because he wasn't translating from the papyri, just like he didn't actually need the golden plates to translate the BOM.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
