Brakeman Wrote:
It's not convenient and it's not even true. the original funeral papyri was found and in a Chicago museum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_Papyri
So your excuses are wrong. Your sources lied, knowingly lied.
Knowingly? At first I thought that may be a bit presumptuous but then again, they do have a different understanding of what it means to "know" something. If someone told them it was true, then they "know" it, so....ok.