https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... f-war.html“DP” wrote: This hill, Cerro La Vigia, near the town of Catemaco, in the Municipio de Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, México, has been proposed by some adherents of a Mesoamerican setting for the Book of Mormon as the location of the final Jaredite and Nephite battles. I think they may be right. If so, the Nephites knew it as “Cumorah,” and the Jaredites knew it as “Ramah.”
The hill Ramah was a major site in the final battles of the Jaredites. Moroni says that the hill Ramah “was that same hill where my father Mormon did hide up the records unto the Lord, which were sacred” (Ether 15:11). In Mormon 6:2 this hill is identified as the “hill which was called Cumorah.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... 7?lang=eng“LDS.org” wrote: The angel Moroni said the gold plates were buried in a hill near Joseph’s home. Moroni said that two stones, called the Urim and Thummim, were hidden with the plates. The stones would help Joseph translate the book. While Moroni was talking, Joseph saw a vision that showed him where the plates were buried.
Joseph Smith—History 1:34–35, 42
Joseph went to the hill where the gold plates were buried. He found the plates in a stone box that was underneath a big rock. The Urim and Thummim were also in the box.
Joseph Smith—History 1:50–52
Doctrine and Covenants stories
While Joseph was at the hill, the angel Moroni came to him. Moroni would not let Joseph take the gold plates yet. He told Joseph to come to the hill on the same day each year for four years.
Joseph Smith—History 1:53
Doctrine and Covenants stories
Joseph obeyed Moroni and went to the Hill Cumorah each year. There Moroni taught Joseph about the Lord’s kingdom on earth.
So I guess the plates just teleported between hills, in DP’s Mesoamerican theory?
And then weren’t necessary at all because the translation process was just reading glowing words from a rock in a hat.
Do Mormons ever stop and actually think about how stupid all of this sounds?
At least the heartlanders acknowledge how ridiculous those two ideas are. Two hills cumorah and the rock in the hat undermine the entire Mormon origin story.