(September 17, 2013 at 2:19 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: If they ever wanted to convince people, why make up the town too?
Some religious leaders don't think their lies will be fact-checked. Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of Mormonism, is one such example of a man who continuously spat out divine claims. None of his prophecies came to pass, but the people who followed him at the time couldn't possibly know that they would fail. His "translations" of ancient Egyptian later turned out to be fraudulent, but no one at the time of Joe Smith knew the first thing about Egyptian, and the Rosetta Stone was still halfway around the world, so he couldn't be checked by linguists of the time. Once he even prophesied that there were men living on the moon. How true do you think that statement was? And yet we still get people who believe this religious horseshit, centuries and millenia after the fact.
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