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Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you? (piefed.zip)
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[–] 33 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The Book of Mormon. Someone literally paid me to read it. It is so glaringly obvious that it's tall tales by Joseph Smith it hurt to read from the cringe. And it was so dark, too! Most memorably the section titled "Doctrine & Covenants." In chapter 132, verse 54, Joseph says Emma Smith, his ninth wife, would be destroyed by god, and her entire family destroyed for good measure, if she refused to sleep with him.

I don't understand how Mormons can be so gullible, and in believing all of it, how they can believe a deity that threatens women for refusing to sleep with a sexual predator can be a deity they want to worship. It makes me sad to think about.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The phrase "and it came to pass" appears 1,404 times in the Book of Mormon which means that it comprises about 2.5% of the entire text.

    Joseph Smith was vainly attempting, and badly, to mimic the tone of the King James version of the bible because he felt that this would somehow lend an air of legitimacy to his nonsense. Never you mind that he was tried and convicted in 1826 of running a divination/dowsing scam involving "seeing stones" with a modus operandi that is nearly verbatim the same cockamamie grift he used to claim how the Book of Mormon was "revealed" to him... some four years later. It's painfully obvious that Smith not only made the whole thing up (aside from the gospel of Mark which he cut-and-pasted more or less directly from the KJV) but he also should have hired a more competent author to ghostwrite the damn thing for him.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Fucking hell, that chapter is a mess. God says "Hey Joseph, you're the greatest ever and my one and only priest and whoever you bless, I bless; whoever you curse, I curse. If I sent you a woman, then it's not adultery to sleep with her, because I gave David and Abraham concubines. And when all is said and done, there's a rad throne by my side for you in heaven. Also, Emma, you better sleep with him, and not any other men. I sent you to him so that's all there is to it. You're the best, Joseph, keep it up, you can do no wrong, because I said so [on the special gold plates no one else should be allowed to see]."

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Some corrections:

    1. The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants are two completely different books. Something you would know if you actually read them as you claim you have.

    2. Emma is his first wife

    3. That verse doesn't say what you claim it says. It talks about her "cleaving unto him" which is scripture speak for being united with him, not in a sexual sense. The verse also doesn't mention her family at all.

    If you're going to go around mindlessly repeating anti-Mormon BS, at least get your easily verifiable "facts" strait.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I read it over thirty years ago, but I'm positive it referenced her family. More than likely the church has revised it to soften the language, possibly even more than once given the Mormon Church is constantly revising, trying to rebrand to keep pulling in more people to their pyramid scheme of tithing, so they can buy up ever more malls, newspapers, and land.

    Let's assume you're right, though? Are you saying coercion is not evil? That women should be forced to "cleave a man" under duress? Especially a man with dozens of wives, many of which he married before his "first" wife? Some as young as fourteen?

    That sounds blatantly evil to me. No real God would attempt to strip a woman of her free agency.

    Edit: I was born into the religion. I was a member for decades before someone with a good heart offered to pay me to read what I had blindly believed based on the cherry-picked lessons I was given while growing up. I've probably baptized more people while I held the priesthood, alive or dead, than you've "visiting teached." I'm not parroting anything.

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