The president and prophet summed it up perfectly in the article: “President Smith spoke briefly,” the Deseret News account summarized, “and expressed the idea that the question of the city (of Zarahemla) was one of interest certainly, but if it could not be located the matter was not of vital importance, and if there were differences of opinion on the question it would not affect the salvation of the people; and he advised against students considering it of such vital importance as the principles of the Gospel.”
Personally I think it will eventually be shown that central America is where it all took place. /shrug But it really doesn’t matter on tiny bit.
So truth is not important to Mormons.
I think we get that after 180 years, but thanks for the verification.
Again....
(And next you'll tell us it won't matter one tiny bit if the Book of Mormon geography actually occurred on Mars or another planet...that location is irrelevant? Why does any Mormon, then, assume that we're even talking about the American continent at all? Maybe all this took place in Canada somewhere, eh? Or maybe the "Lamanites" were the Eskimos in Northern Canadian, region, eh?)
Or baja california, or Malay Pennesula? or even Africa or Polynesia? How about it occured in a land called 'no where'? In all these hundreds of years of search not one solid piece of evidence has been able to be produced that shows a hebraic/egyptian/middle eastern culture with advanced metallurgy, horses, old world crops (and no new world crops),chariots writing or customs has been found. Unless you want to start second guessing the prophet and the seer stone in a hat and say that horses were actually deer and that tapirs are courloms.