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Why should it be?

Harmony keeps up the pose, and quite a pose it is. This woman has nothing on Gumby.

Oh, for heaven's sake, coggins. By your own standards, Josephine Lyon's statement counts as reliable documentary evidence. You're not even trying to follow the nuances of my, or rc's arguments here Beastie. One statement from a historical character who herself was not factually or empirically sure ...

And so do you. The fact of the matter is, I don't accept for one nanosecond any claim that BY was immoral. I've read and studied his words and teachings to a substantial degree, and I am convinced beyond any possible doubt that he could have been a man of this kind. You, on the other hand, need him ...

The problem is, there's no way to measure if God is keeping his end of the bargain. Is the blessing because of keeping the covenant or because of chance?

Well, that's a question that you might ask if your were Richard Dawkins, but not if you were faithful member Harmony.

Is it not?

And, for the anti-Mormon tin foil hat crowd here, of which Scratch is the Grand Poobah, google "fJoseph Smith face in hat" and you'll get 1,690,000 hits. If this is suppression, I'd like to see full disclosure. But, again, this is all readily available in pro-Church sources that have been ...

That fact that so many TBMs (including, presumably, the Brethren) fear that people would "poke fun" at the face in the hat basically explains why they've tried to bury this embarrassing bit of history. Yes, every bit as embarrassing as a bunch of filthy, illiterate, uneducated fisherman g...

David Whitmer's "face in the hat" story is of suspect quality. It first surfaced in 1875. He didn't mention this before that time. Thus, his story depends upon what he was told, not what he had seen. An interesting variable here. I'll have to keep that in mind as this preoccupation keeps ...

Noooo...we have no evidence that she was divorced. You won't even take 10 or 15 minutes to do some homework will you? No evidence is not proof of the opposing view. Secondly, the lack of evidence is explainable due to the difficult extenuating circumstances under which the marriage dissolved-and we...

Tell us, coggins, just what would constitute "reliable documentary evidence" in this matter? Any number of things. Direct, corroborated testimony of the polyandrous wives that they had sex with him; testimony of family members who knew of it, children produced from such marriages, etc. An...