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Hancock is a sanctimonious windbag.

Grant Palmer has written a new article that is set to be published in the John Whitmer Journal in April, 2015. The MormonThink website has posted the article in full on its website, and I think it is an article worthy of discussion here. This is the link: m Actually, I don't think Grant's article i...

I have to say that I think Compton is not far off, but there is more to it than uniting families spiritually. Smith and Young also focused on the BLOOD and LINEAGE and that they were "kings" and "nobles" because of their PURE BLOODLINES. They were "entitled" to the Pri...

Okay, okay. Got it. There is no other rational explanation. Patty edited her 1860 journal entry in 1867 because she just felt like fleshing it out a bit more. When she wrote in 1860 that she was sealed to Joseph Smith for eternity she meant for time and all eternity . We know this because, when she...

I just threw in the Quinn quote to mess with you. Sure you were. Also, I think you mistake the intent of my posts in this thread. I am not trying to "let Joseph off the hook" (whatever that means). Rather, I am trying to defend the essay writer from the charge of being "incredibly de...

FYI, here's another noted mopologist's take on Patty Sessions: "Patty Bartlett Sessions later specified that she had been sealed to Joseph Smith 'for Eternity' in an ordinance for which there is no original record. This would preclude the sexual cohabitation of a marriage 'for time and eternit...

Excellent analysis, as always, Doc. Very well done.

FYI, I have edited the OP to replace the old version of my paper with the THIRD revised version (dated 11/18/14). I tried to tone down the overuse of emphasis (particularly the bold font), as well as add further discussion (on pp. 38-40 of the latest version) on the Patty Bartlett Sessions journal e...

Given the way that paragraph was very carefully written, I consider the Patty Sessions information to have been an omission with intent to mislead; ergo , a lie like any other. Or maybe the author of the essay was familiar with Brian Hales's discussion of this source: A July 3, 1867, entry in Patty...

This is probably the most important part of Rollo's essay The LDS Church says Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married. Neither these women nor Joseph explained much about these sealings, though several women said they were for eternity alone. Other women left no record...