Nightlion wrote:kairos wrote:
Gerald and Sandra Tanner have done more to discredit Mormonism than any 2 persons on earth. They hold the first position and you will only wither under the protection she will be given. She is not about to look at your picture/photo for a quick moment and give some earth shattering "I see, I see" like Marin Harris. Most will view your presentations as "out in left field, bizarre".
My advice go slow with whom ever you approach with the apolcalrock stuff-even then you are going to take heat.
And give Tanner her due- trying to discredit her makes you look very very bad.
k
I gave ULHM a pass thirty-five years ago only because the LDS deserved what they dished out. I was embarrassed for her weak attempt to smear Joseph as a plagiarist. She is a woman of ill-fame for the like of it.
Sandra wasn't the first to recognize the plagiarism by Joseph. There were others way before her. He plagiarized from many sources, including the KJV of the Bible his family kept in their upstate NY farmhouse, publication date of 1769. He plagiarized verbatim, down to the same grammatical errors in the family Bible. View of the Hebrews another. The map of Lake Ontario in the original manuscript by Ethan Smith with his place names in his book of fiction, Joseph took that map and made up names for the same places that were already there to say his was given him by an angel (who obviously didn't really exist, because Joseph stole that from the author.
When you learn that Joseph Smith was not a man of god, because prophets don't resort to lying or plagiarism to build a religion based on deception, what is it you find compelling about the falsity of Mormonism?
Never mind his 39 wives, 10 of whom were already wed to other men, and some as young as 14. He only took wives who brought him property, dowries, inheritances etc to steal from them their livelihood and any chance another man would take them to be lawfully wed women. He was a thief, charlatan, and a liar.
I don't see how you can not know this if indeed you have spent any time studying it out.
Book of Mormon is 19th century fiction and Americana folklore that was indeed plagiarized.