This is a different topic that merits a different thread.

First, in case you don't know what a "MacGuffin" is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.[1][2][3][4][5] The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for film,[2] adopted by Alfred Hitchcock,[1][2][3][4][5] and later extended to a similar device in other fiction.[4]

The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually, the MacGuffin is revealed in the first act, and thereafter declines in importance. It can reappear at the climax of the story but may actually be forgotten by the end of the story. Multiple MacGuffins are sometimes derisively identified as plot coupons.[6][7]

The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot. The final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself.[8]


What do the Guidestones have to do with Mormonism?

Here's a locally produced documentary from 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKOakBPOdmc

I'd always heard that the "Guidestones" were either created as a local tourist attraction (they became one anyway) or by an eccentric billionaire like Ted Turner. Well, it turns out that there really was someone behind the pseudonym "Robert C. Christian" and he wasn't Ted Turner. The secrecy surrounding him is what gave the Guidestones their mystery -- driving all kinds of people to associate them with the paranormal, religious cults, UFOs, Satanism, and other fabulous nonsense.

The same is true for Mormonism. A relatively unknown person claims to find an ancient record of a past civilization on mysterious gold plates that only a few people actually claim to see -- then they vanish as mysteriously as they came. All sorts of "wonderful" powers become associated with this vanished book, its discoverer, and the cult that is created around it. You can figure out the rest of the picture from there.

Both the Guidestones and the BoM are (non) objects of mystery because some people want mystery. They want something beyond what they see with they eyes, so they make things up to fulfill that role.

The Guidestones were just rocks with words, and "The Book Of Mormon" is just a (badly written) rip-off of someone else's novel with pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo. But because their origins were surrounded by mystery, people make them mysterious.

That's all, folks...

So.....the DaVinci Code isn't real?

I'm so embarrassed.
;)

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Imagine all that follows. . .