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Date Posted: 05:45:22 08/20/11 Sat
Author: dan (sad)
Subject: Re: JOANN ELLIS AND MATTHEW VANDERPOOL
In reply to: matthew_vanderpool 's message, "Re: JOANN ELLIS AND MATTHEW VANDERPOOL" on 06:05:24 06/28/08 Sat

>>>>A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE
>>>>
>>>>Joseph Smith, got his new religion going by writing
>a
>>>>book known as The Book of Mormon. The book was much
>>>>too dull to make it as a novel. Mark Twain called
>the
>>>>book "chloroform in print" so it was marketed as a
>>new
>>>>bible! H-E-L-L-O? Having quite a flair for
>publicity,
>>>>Smith pretended to have translated The Book of
>Mormon
>>>>from a pile of gold plates dug out of a glacial hill
>>>>in upstate New York with the help of a resurrected
>>man
>>>>no less!
>>>>
>>>>The BOM purports to tell of lost tribes of
>Israelites
>>>>and others floating to South America, some in giant
>>>>barrels, others in a boat. Arriving in America, they
>>>>all turned into Indians, (now we know why the
>indians
>>>>had big noses) built cities, fought wars, received a
>>>>visit from Jesus Christ after he couldn't make a go
>>of
>>>>it in Palestine, and finally killed each other off
>in
>>>>A.D. 421. Shortly before the fatal fight a colossal
>>>>battle allegedly waged at Hill Cumorah, near
>Palmyra,
>>>>New York, a person (angel) appropriately name Moroni
>>>>buried some "golden plates" for Josepth Smith, its
>>>>founder, to find with his magic "seer stone!"
>>>>
>>>>Now the comedy begins. Joseph Smith claimed he had a
>>>>magic "seer stone," a stone with which he could see
>>>>inside hills and beneath the surface of the ground
>to
>>>>inspect for buried treasurers and enchantments! The
>>>>seer stone became transformed into the biblical
>"urim
>>>>and thummin" with which he later claimed he could
>>>>"translate" any language, including "reformed
>>>>Egyptian," the imaginary language in which his
>Jewish
>>>>Indians supposedly had written their history. A
>>locked
>>>>box held what Smith claimed to be the gold plates
>>>>bearing this reformed Egyptian Chaldee Jewish
>>American
>>>>Indian history. Are you believing this thus far? If
>>>>so, the Golden Gate Bridge is still for sale!
>>>>
>>>>Sitting in one-half of a room divided into two
>>>>sections by means of a blanket hung from a rope,
>>Smith
>>>>would pretend to be translating aloud from the
>golden
>>>>plates and would dictate The Book of Mormon to his
>>>>secretary Martin Harris. Harris sat on the other
>side
>>>>of the blanket, afraid to peek at the plates for
>fear
>>>>he would be stricken with the plague, or the scab,
>or
>>>>hemorrhoids, and the botch of Egypt. LOL After many
>>>>days of such inventive labor, 116 pages of
>manuscript
>>>>had been written. All of it supposedly translated by
>>>>divine guidance by means of the magical seer stone!
>>>>
>>>>This is the foundation of the BOM (Book of Morons)
>>and
>>>>if you take any further time reading it in its
>>>>entirety, then you are more lonely than we thought.
>>>>Who in the hell in their right mind would believe
>>this
>>>>story? LOL!! You've got to be pretty gullible to
>>>>swallow such a history! Our history of Mount Sinai
>>and
>>>>Moses, Noahan deluge, parting of the Red Sea, the
>>>>celestial impregnation of Mary, et al, is certainly
>>>>more plausable than the Book of Mormon. What a joke.
>>>>There's a sucker born every minute!look at joann
>>>ellis
>>>>as well as matthew vanderpool. drugs for sex
>>>>Brother D. Thomas, aint joann ellis a sorry excuse
>>>> for a woman giving a missionary drugs for sex
>>>> joann is is sad

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