So I'm reading through Rough Stone Rolling, and I love the contradictions.

After describing the famous event where JS has a section of his leg bone removed, the author states:

"To the end of his life he was slightly lame"

Later, when recounting an event where JS was attacked while relocating the plates we read:

"Joseph knocked the man down and ran off at full speed, still with the heavy plates under his arm."

Even if the plates only weighed the 40-50 lbs the author claims, JS was supposedly slightly lame at the time.

Even without a missing bit of leg, how many people could outrun pursuers on uneven ground carrying 40-50 lbs? And with a permanent crippling injury it would be downright impossible.

Sometimes I think Richard Bushman must be a closet apostate, dropping hints with plausible deniability.

Joseph Smith will have whatever characteristics the faith promoting story requires.

Ya wanna wrestle? (Imagine I sound like Sal Bandini)

Excellent points SB

Teens reenact running with plates...
http://youtu.be/08wRRff8x0k

Owwwww! Agghhh! The cry of a painful elimination of Mormonism through the urethra.

Come on! With god, anything is possible. JS was healed momentarily. He was turned into a deer to jump logs and a cheetah to run fast, and into a bear to fight big. God performed a miracle in helping JS escape with the golden plates. It's only more proof that it is trwooo.

squeebee Wrote:
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> Even without a missing bit of leg, how many people
> could outrun pursuers on uneven ground carrying
> 40-50 lbs? And with a permanent crippling injury
> it would be downright impossible.

That's the miracle of it.