Mormons believe the
Book of Mormon is a history of the Americas beginning in 600 B.C.
Persuitte presents devastating evidence that the
Book of Mormon was cynically designed to tickle religious and historical preoccupations that agitated America during a brief span early in the nineteenth century.
The
Book of Mormon tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries sent to a remote village in northern Uganda, where a brutal warlord is threatening the local population.
The
Book of Mormon is an award-winning classic that made its London debut at the Prince of Wales Theatre London.
I heard you wanted to write a musical based on the
Book of Mormon before you ever met Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
"The
Book of Mormon has pictures of guys with their shirts off, ripped and chiseled, ready for war and going out preaching the gospel," he says.
The distinctively American Mormon denomination of Christianity was founded by Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up in New York, published the
Book of Mormon there, moved his church first to Ohio, then to Missouri, and, finally, to Illinois, where he was killed in 1844.
Forsberg takes care to preface virtually all of his assertions with qualifiers such as "may," "might," "could have," and "possibly." Nevertheless, he concludes unequivocally that, in the
Book of Mormon, Smith "reworked in narrative form (and essentially by rote) the best-known Masonic publication of the day, Thomas Smith Webb's The Freemason's Monitor." This is a "remarkable fact," says Forsberg, given "that he [Smith] undoubtedly never read it" (xx-xxi).
The purpose for this position with regard to the American Indians was this: The Mormons believed that Native Americans were "Noble Red men" and "descendants of [the Old Testament] Joseph," whose story and legacy is recounted in The
Book of Mormon published by Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, in 1830.
Her references to Mormon history, such as attributing polygamy solely to Joseph Smith's lust and mocking the literary quality of the
Book of Mormon, are only repeats of the oldest and crudest attacks by anti-Mormons.
The most famous of his translations was the
Book of Mormon, which he claimed he found after receiving divine direction to uncover it in a hill in western New York.