If the gold plates were real then they would be in a museum next to the seer stone that Joseph Smith used to translate them. The fact that Joseph Smith continued to hide the plates after the translation process was finished proves to me that it was a fraud. After the translation was published then the plates served no purpose and didn't need to be hid anymore. In fact God would want people to see
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"I would rather undertake to convert five thousand Lamanites, than to convert one of those poor miserable creatures whose fathers killed the Savior, and who say, 'Amen to the deed,' to this day. Yea, I would rather undertake to convert the devil himself, if it were possible." Journal of Discourses 2:143, Brigham Young, Dec 3rd, 1854. According to Brigham Young it is easier to con
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The real problem for the Mormons is the link between Joseph Smith using his seer stone for treasure hunting / divination and Joseph Smith using his seer stone for translating the Gold Plates. It was just an extension of his already running scams.
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You know you are a Mormon if you believe the Garden of Eden was in North America...
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You know you are a Mormon if you believe in the American Elephant...
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Lets not forget that Joseph Smith used the same tactics to defraud his neighbors by claiming to find buried treasure with a seer stone. It was considered fraud in his time to pretend to have a talent and offer that talent for payment.
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You forgot to mention the part when Joseph Smith defrauded people with his "seer stone", started a fraudulent bank that didn't repay its depositors when it went bankrupt, and was leader of the Danites who murdered people.
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Very true. The un-Christian Mormon doctrine of God being a superman from Kolob reminds me of the ancient aliens theories about Anunnaki from planet X or Nibiru. There must be a lot of UFO cults out there that sound a lot like Mormonism. I could imagine one of them singing a song about traveling to planet x to meet the Anunnaki who seeded mankind on earth. The only difference between the two would
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