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Posted by: Regan ( )
Date: January 16, 2012 03:21AM

One night several years ago I watched the PBS documentary "The Mormons" thinking it might be interesting and strengthen my testimony. I was actually shocked by the things I was hearing for the first time regarding JS. Confused I did a wiki search on JS. I was in utter shock after reading. I was certain that this unreliable wiki page had been written by anti-mormons. The things I was hearing blew my mind. I noticed that wiki had source links to the info they were providing and I noticed that many of these links were biographies written about JS. I checked out some of the biographers at the library whom I knew I could rely on. If Mormon biographers were admiting to these things I was reading about than these facts were with out a doubt true. One book in particular was "Rough Stone Rolling." I was surprised at how candid he was in admitting all the dirt on JS. In the following months I poured over the massive damning evidence against JS that wiki provided and learned just about everything I needed to in regards to the conman. Interstingly enough when I came out to my husband about the true history of JS and the church he was only willing to read non biased subjective info. He felt anything not supporting Mormonism was anti. I showed him the wiki sites that I had collected. There was so much info on wiki that it took me about 10 hours to get through it all with him. Props to Wikipedia. They get alot of crap for not being legitimate but I for one have learned a ton and been surprised with the accuracy. Of course nothing is ever 100 percent unbiased so it can be tough. Here are some of the best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Joseph_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_wives_of_Joseph_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_The_Book_of_Mormon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Witnesses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Witnesses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Latter_Day_Saint_polygamy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Egyptian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderhook_Plates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_Marriage#Underage_plural_marriages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_(Mormonism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Book_of_Mormon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mormon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_and_the_Book_of_Mormon

This one is not a wiki link but it was pivotal in convincing my husband the truth of Mormonism. I will also be showing this to my family when I tell them I no longer believe.
http://www.mormonstories.org/whytheyleave/

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Posted by: drjekyll ( )
Date: January 16, 2012 03:45AM

I like all of the wiki links. The last link that you have has a link to a YouTube version of this guy's presentation. It was BORING, but I managed to notice one of the most hilarious things on the slide that appears at 15:32...

"Joseph Smith... was 2nd to Jesus in righteousness"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQJc5SxnVs

I think that statement would make most people on this board either vomit or spit out their drinks as they laugh their ass off. Can you say "Whopper"?

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