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So rises the Book of Mormon, and an American sensation

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1991189/so-rises-the-book-of-mormon-and-an-american-sensation

The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.

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https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/

Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.

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https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/ The church denied the strange magic practices of Joseph's Smith. Facts they now claim were commonplace. The church apologists yearn to dismiss the practices as astrology or gambling today, but does that make them better? They denied Joseph was involved and that he used his seer stone for treasure digging out translation.

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Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church.

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/

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https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/

LDS Historian, Richard Bushman concedes that Joseph Smith was looking for treasure. He argues that this was “part of a culture found virtually everywhere,” “something like reading astrological charts today—a little goofy but harmless,” “too commonplace to be scandalous,” “too common in the nineteenth century for it to invalidate Joseph Smith,” because, he states “folk traditions and religion blend.”

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Book of Mormon Anachronisms – Slippery Treasures and Treasure Digging Concepts

The Smith family and other treasure seekers believed that enchantments on buried treasure had the power to move the location of the treasure under the earth so that those seeking the hidden valuables could not acquire them. These were called slippery treasures.

https://wasmormon.org/book-of-mormon-anachronisms-slippery-treasures-and-treasure-digging-concepts/ #exmormon #josephsmith #Mormonism #ldsquotes #bookofmormon #treasure #seerstone

Benjamin Franklin on Treasure Seeking Seers. Franklin saw the folly and called it out as the “most egregious folly and madness.”

The church denied Joseph’s involvement with treasure digging until the evidence was no longer possible to refute or ignore. There is no doubt today that Joseph Smith was deeply involved with treasure digging.

https://wasmormon.org/benjamin-franklin-on-treasure-seeking-seers/ #exmormon #benjaminfranklin #josephsmith #Mormon #lds #ldschurch #folkmagic #seerstone #treasure #prophet #profiteering #iwasamormon

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Joseph Smith Confessed His Seer Stone Is Nonsense

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-confirms-his-seer-stone-is-nonsense/

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Church Historians Attempt Normalizing Strange Seer Stone In Hat Translation Method

https://wasmormon.org/more-cell-phone-seer-stone-talk-from-church-history-department/

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Church Historians Attempt Normalizing Strange Seer Stone In Hat Translation Method

https://wasmormon.org/more-cell-phone-seer-stone-talk-from-church-history-department/

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Joseph Fielding Smith taught the Seer Stone Not Used for Book of Mormon Translation

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-fielding-smith-teaches-the-seer-stone-not-used-for-book-of-mormon-translation/

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“In reality, most of us use a seer stone every day. My mobile phone is like a seer stone... I can even translate anything into or from many different languages!” – Elder Uchtdorf, Mormon Apostle

https://wasmormon.org/elder-uchtdorf-compares-peep-stone-to-his-smartphone/ #mormon #lds #exmormon #exmo #elderuchtdorf #seerstone #josephsmith #bookofmormon #shelfbreaker

Misleading Mormon Thoughts On The First Vision Since 1970

Find the full article text, screenshots and analysis at https://wasmormon.org/misleading-thoughts-on-the-first-vision-from-1970/

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Other First Visions, Which are Not of This Fold

https://wasmormon.org/other-first-visions-which-are-not-of-this-fold/

"First Vision" of Norris Stearns, 1815 is very similar to Joseph Smith's alleged "First Vision" of 1820, which was not recorded until 1830 and not heard about by anyone until 1838... Plagiarism much?

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The Joseph Smith “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” Narrative is Myth

When the mob storms the stairs, he and his company barricade the door to keep the mob out. Joseph takes his revolver and shoots through the crack in the door repeatedly, using up all the ammunition. He ends up hitting three of the mob, killing two.

More: https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-like-a-lamb-to-the-slaughter/

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The Problems with Joseph Smith and Peep Stone Translations

https://wasmormon.org/the-problem-with-joseph-smith-and-peep-stone-translations/

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I was a #mormon. I now find peace in #meditation, #travel, connecting with my kids instead of seeking to control/indoctrinate them.

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