Lucky that book didn't spontaneously burst into flame

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[RockRaven]

1. Hello

My name is Elder Mitt
And I would like to share with you the most amazing book

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. He didn't use his Book of Mormon?

I guess it’s too valuable to write on, unlike the Bible.

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3. What's in the Mormon bible? Is it the same as a regular bible?

[Mosby]

4. they added a book, called the book of Mormon

It was written by Joseph Smith. He dictated it to his neighbor, and later his wife, because he was illiterate.

[Aristus]

5. It's the most incredible piece of fiction ever.

Hilariously awful.

It's as if someone was trying to write a hoax scriptural text by combining the King James Bible and throwing in a little folk history and a sprinkling of Shakespeare. Which is pretty much what Joseph Smith did.

You know those bogus Bible-quotes by Monty Python? It sounds a little like those, only even funnier. Smith really pours on the biblical-style language. You can't read more than a few paragraphs at a time without running in to the phrase "...and it came to pass..." If you were to play a drinking game in which you had to take a shot every time the book says "...and it came to pass...", you would pass OUT!

[Mosby]

7. I've never read it.

When I was a kid though I heard that non Mormons were not allowed in their prayer space and didn't believe it so I went into the main temple in Mesa, AZ to find out for myself. Sure enough I was stopped by someone in the foyer, and asked if I needed "help" I said I was just looking around and then left.

This was in like 1980, back then no one locked up anything, especially places of worship.

[brush]

6. Ok. I didn't realize that. I thought the Book of Mormon was another book altogether.

[dalton99a]

9. Mark Twain:

http://www.mtwain.com/Roughing_It/17.html

The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the
Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New
Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint,
old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the
Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half
ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained;
the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his
speech growing too modern--which was about every sentence or two--he
ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came
to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to
pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been
only a pamphlet.