The Character, Motivations, and Death of Joseph Smith (2013), by Sandra Tanner

[@leroylem51]

Great video ! About the "seer stone" Joseph Smith used to interpet the writting on the gold leaves, I had a thought:~ According to the storyline of the Book of Mormon, the family that made it accross the Atlantic Ocean were JEWISH. So, whouldn't they be reading and writting in Hebrew script??? They supposedly brought scripture with them. Right? Thus, shouldn't the "gold tablet" have been written in Hebrew since they kept the faith untill the end ? And so, why use a magic seer stone to translate the book which was written in commonly known language? I don't know why I never thought of that 55 years ago when I read the book. Prehaps critical thinking was not a thing to get into while falling into the Mormon god spell mojo of the faithful... "Be as a little child" and flush your brain down the drain... LOL. Thanks for posting!

[@bipolarrambling242]

It's amazing, looking back, at how much our minds can just ignore all the things that go in opposition to our beliefs.

[@Signal_Lost.]

Uh, the text itself claims to have been written in Reformed Egyptian, something we have no examples of, so no, no one would have been able to translate it.

[@rocithebest6520]

The part of the bank is hilarious 🤭

[@DRT279]

Sandra where have you been? Did you die?