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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bseal90@entergy.com <bseal90@entergy.com>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re[2]: virus: Virus: Opinions?
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> >
> > Well when you consider Mormon history in the matter a different
> > viewpoint is needed to clear away the obscurity that "Mormonism" hides
> > behind. John Smith supposedly found golden tablets(guided by an
> > angel by the name of moroni) written in an ancient language.
> > According to these tablets after the Ressurection of Christ, he(Jesus)
> > appeared in the Americas outlaying his teachings to to the native
> > peoples who lived in Great Cities at that time. Ad nauseum- Yeah I
> > would say pretty friggin weird-
> >
> > Bob
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>
> Of course if you told someone that you were visited by an angel, directed to
> some golden plates written in a strange language, and directed by God to
> translate them then yes that sounds weird...and JOSEPH Smith was murdered
> by an angry mob for sticking to his story. But the fact that it REALLY
> happened
> is what Mormons base their entire lives on. Are ten million people insane?
> If you open up a Book of Mormon there is page after page of EYE WITNESSES
> to the plates and even to the angel visitations. Many years after the death
> of
> JOSEPH Smith there have been discoveries of ancient buried civilizations
> that
> exactly coincide with locations outlined in the Book of Mormon. Is it so
> crazy that
> Joseph Smith found ancient records of a civilization? Is it crazy that these
> records
> are of a people who witnesses the visitation of Christ? When Christ was
> resurrected
> after his crucifixion he stated that he had "other sheep, not of this fold"
> to tend to.
> Could this be the ancient americans???
> Why just today I found in Doctrine & Covenants 130:12-13 that Joseph Smith
> (through revelation) predicted the civil war (and where it would start and
> what it would be fought over)
> in 1843....17 years before the war began!
>Crazy?
>Of course they can be; How many Nazis were there? How many Maoists?
>The "forty million flies can't be wrong" reverse ad hominum defense
>holds no logical water. There's a lot of New Age bizarrity in
>Mormon metaphysics, and the most bizarre thing is that otherwise
>intelligent people yoke their self-esteem wagon tongues so zealously
>to the star of such an absurd doctrine.
>