why me wrote:
I am asking you the questions.
You asked questions you then went on to answer them. I challenged those answers by asking how you know this. You are making some claims here that I think are not just incorrect, but not thought out at all. You still seem to think people cannot get away with things, nor have you seriously considered how Joseph or others could make up the Book of Mormon. You also assume Emma could not be involved, when we know she has lied about Joseph, and she ran off with him knowing he was a treasure hunter with his rock in a hat.
Can you answer them? Plus, we tend to forget the rough drafts for such an undertaking. The poor guy had to remember to collect all the scapes, notes, mistake papers left on the floor or table and never let on that he was writing a book to dupe the world.
How could anyone remember to collect their scrapes and notes. I am sure no one has ever thought to burn them when done either. Some have already shown that Joseph had years to formulate a story in his mind. People can do amazing things, even if most cannot. I don't conclude from any possibilities I may entertain on how Joseph did it. There is not enough evidence, which should not be surprising from someone who is trying to hide this. There is more then enough evidence to conclude the Book of Mormon is a 19th fiction.
The persecution began with the publication of the Book of Mormon.
Not really. Serious persecution happened later, and it's reasons are far more complex and not one sided.
He did. If he knew that the book was a fraud and he was in on it, and then he was arrested because of a different reason, and murdered, we can say that it all started with a book that he used to mock god. He died for a book.
Not really. The Book of Mormon did not really factor into it, nor would admitting it was a fraud have saved him. It started by making other decisions, many of them not good ones. The last to destroy a press was the last bad decision, and unfortunately he got murdered for it. Again it is more complex and not one sided.