Ok lets sum up mormonism.
1. Joseph Smith decides to become a prophet.
2. He wraps an old set of chalkboards in tablecloth.
3. He then goes out and tells people of the miraculous acquisition of these sacred plates from god and wows the poor gullible souls.
4. He lets people feel these amazing "gold plates" through the cloth but says that people are not allowed to touch or see them for real.
5. People start to question this and find it kinda weird.
6. Joseph smith worries.
7. Joseph smith pays people to sign a written statment that they have seen the plates for real.
8. People still question
9. Joseph smith gives up and puts the tablecloth and chalkboards back in the cupboard.
10. People ask where the plates went. Joseph smith doesnt want to look like a noob so he says that he gave them back to god.
I cant believe it either. lol.
2007-07-15 23:39:40 · 8 answers · asked by westillsellbunny 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it is funny. What's even funnier, is the discovery about 10 years ago, of a scroll in Egypt that said word for word what he said was transcribed from an Angel to him.
And funnier is one of the dead sea scrolls having exactly the same basic words has his translation of Genesis.
I guess you write enough words down sooner or later you are going to match something somewhere.
2007-07-15 23:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"I cant believe it either. lol."
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You can't believe it, but 12 million other people did at some moment in their lives. Ha! Maybe that tells us more about you than you really wanted us to know.
Oh that's right, we're the gullible souls you were talking about. The ones, incidentally, that choose to live higher laws than you "want" to, in probably ever single way known. But that's all because we're gullible? Well let's see, if a people act contrary to what a rag-tag group of individuals, who refuse to live a higher law themselves, say about them in mockery, what does that suggest? It is obvious that those individuals are full of hot air.
2007-07-16 08:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by Atom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, well, I'm not Mormon, but I do not see how factual this is seeing as you have no source of this information, which I can not take serious at all. I do not think trying to sum a religion up with something you can not show any evidence for is well...not cool to say the least
2007-07-16 06:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by tribmartyr 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um. Interesting you put it in such a way. Now I'm gonna be forced to read the Book of Mormon and see what it says :)
Is this written from a 1st person perspective, ie - you've actually witnessed this all by yourself?
Can you try and not make a mockery of other's Religions?
2007-07-16 08:00:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anna 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We had a pair of missionaries come by yesterday - while we were in the back yard working. They came to the door, knocked and when we didn't answer, they left (without so much as a tract to say they were there). Here's the kicker - they walked right by my wife and I, looked us in the face and kept walking!!! I guess they didn't want an argument (I'm glad, I was too tired to argue with them myself).
2007-07-16 06:49:28 · answer #5 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the part where he claimed that he translated the original text of the Scripture himself, yet when put to the test he couldn't tell the difference between Greek and Hebrew, let alone read or translate either.`
2007-07-16 06:46:06 · answer #6 · answered by mrscjr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's funny like every other religion it's a farce. noob is pronounced newb and means someone who is new and bad at something,you might mean knob.
2007-07-16 06:50:45 · answer #7 · answered by zix12345 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not the way you describe it.
2007-07-18 08:14:46 · answer #8 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋