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#across neighboring years. then his followup leader decided to stick with racism and that 'divine inspiration' stuck around until the 70s
foxgirltail · 11 months
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You'd assume that the LDS church and Mr Smith's whole dealio would have been exposed as a sham when the alleged "alternative doctrine of Abraham and Joshua" from the Egypt papyri (+4 mummies, allegedly a Pharaoh and his house) he acquired and "translated" into the Mormon scripture titled the pearl of great price were looked at by egyptologists who determined that most of them were, in fact, just books of the dead [as well as the fact that the names Smith claimed those mummies had don't match any records in the area they were stolen from]
Despite this evidence to the contrary, the LDS church still considers the pearl of great price translations to be divinely inspired and part of their standard literature. I can't even begin to imagine what the party line to cover that whole thing up is
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