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If I die then I'll at least die having read the Book of Mormon
I'll record my thoughts here, I guess

This shit is gonna be so ass

my edition came with a handwritten foreword on the inner cover, by someone named Kontsedaylo (Концедайло)

Don't be misled, "Elder" is the lowest ranking title in the Mormon church

it's mormin time

the book of mormon doesn't even start until like 18 pages in

it spends the first 18 pages going "trust me bro this is THE shit"

the introduction starts with "The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible."

self fellating much?

Okay, wow, 2 paragraphs into the introduction and I already see problems.

for context, the BOM claims that in 600 B.C., jews from Jerusalem fled to the Americas and split into 2 tribes: the Nephites and the Lamanites.

my physical copy, printed in 2009, says the following at the end of the second paragraph:
"...all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians."

but my online app version says: "...all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians."

After over a century with 0 genetic or archeological evidence to the fact that Native Americans descend from Jews, they retroactively changed *the first words of their base faith text*

what follows the overly self-fellating introduction is... 5 pages of more gratuitous oral slop

"The Testimony of the Three Witnesses" and "The Testimony of the Eight Witnesses" and "Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith"

1. "Fr bros and sisters we seen those golden plates and Joseph Smith translated them with the power of God. Also we saw an Angel. Amen."
2. "Jo Smith showed us these golden plates. They were rhe bee's knees. No we're not lying"

the third is... basically a 4 page accounting on how the revelation and translation process went down

in Jo. Smith's own words