Posted on 01/04/2011 3:45:06 PM PST by Paragon Defender
Oh wow...my brother could weigh in on this and blow it right out of the water. Humm-mm. Might get his imput but he is so busy now in his work.
BTW Jim just posted about PD spamming the site. Looks like he’s not even fazed. Some might call it “match and Play”.
South Park said it best, “Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb!”
Heh, heh, first of all the Book of Mormon is a hodgepodge of single-author poppycock, just like the Koran, only not as murderous in its effect.
The truth is that the Americas were first populated by Central Asians who crossed the then-extant Alaska land bridge.
In 2003 I got deployed to Uzbekistan, believe me there’s a connection. The Uzbeks are mostly secular Muslims who like their vodka. One day a very mixed group of young Uzbek men and women took me to task for regarding them as an isolated people. One asserted:
“We headed west and conquered the Byzantines (Uzbeks and Turks are ethnically identical); we headed east and we eventually beat Custer!”
FWIW, they scoffed at the American belief that we were their first ever window to the West. One said, “in the sixties my Uzbek grandmother was wearing miniskirts, drinking vodka, and listening to the Rolling Stones!”
In other words, Jewish Indians my foot!
***No matter how many times I beg these LDS morons to stop they just keep posting this trash!*****
It is far better to not post, and be thought idiots,
than to post and remove all doubt.
Filed in the fiction section...
Filed in the fiction section...
I don’t know, they are so much fun to play with. ;-)
invisible
Same old regurgitated propaganda, been addressed thousands of times before. Here are some haystacks for you to read through to find where it’s been addressed. If you’re really interested in the truth that is.
http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_dna.html
http://www.godandscience.org/cults/dna.html
http://www.irr.org/MIT/southerton-response.html
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~unsworth/mormon/dna.html
http://signaturebooks.com/2010/06/answers-to-apologetic-claims-about-dna-and-the-book-of-mormon/
http://www.irr.org/mit/lamanites-dna-bom.html
Mormon Scholarship...
LOL...
You’re kidding, right?
Examine internal contradictions - google anachronisms in the book of mormon. The reformed hieroglyphics 300 years before Jesus using the words "Jesus" and "Christ" (both based upon greek). or French "au due".
Perhaps the 4000+ changes to the text of the book of mormon, said by smith to be the most perfect book in the world - corrections all done without benefit of the metal plates.
And finally, research HOW the bom was translated. True history records smith with his face in a hat looking at a smooth pebble (seer stone), no special glasses, etc. Check out www.mormonthink.com for more background.
Joseph Smith knew all about DNA. He sure like to spread it around.
I just skimmed through all of the above and can say - been there, done that. My input deals with the linguistics.
Language tends to be the last cultural item lost in assimilation. One can pretty much follow the migration patterns of humans using comparative linguistics.
For example, the Thai language is spoken by Thais, Laos, and ethnic minorities in both Vietnam and China. In China’s Yunnan province, the Dai minority speak Thai in such a way that Thais visiting there can actually carry on a conversation with these Dai people. Relationships can be linguistically followed and tracked as linguists have done with the Indo-European languages and have even replicated what appears to be the mother of all Indo European languages or proto-language by using the common words in a host of European languages. In fact, a tree of these languages has been developed and one can easily see the connections. (http://www.danshort.com/ie/) between the languages.
There is no connection whatsoever with American Indian languages and any Middle Eastern or even Indo European languages. The concept that somehow these indigenous North American languages are related to the Mormon “Lamanites” is certifiably absurd.
As I stated earlier: been there, done that.
Wait a minute.
You used those two words in the same sentence!
Oh.
I get it.
You meant to incite roaring laughter!
LOL!!!
Ejonesie: Mormon scholarship [post #30]
Well, I looked @ my vast dozens-upon-dozens of books in my Mormon book library & files & e-files about the Jaredites...searching for the "best" Jaredite Mormon scholarship I could find.
I think I found it: "The people didn't want to cross the ocean in the dark, so the Brother of Jared made 16 clear stones and asked God to make them shine."
Source: My First Book of Mormon Stories retold by Deanna Draper Buck, Mormon church owned Deseret Book Company, 1998, 30th page.
Now, I searched within this primer in vain for footnotes that would further explain the above -- how Jared's brother created ("made") stones...[Boy, & here I must have been some backwoods bumpkin to actually think God was the Creator of stones & rocks & the like!]
And so, I was "forced" to go back to read the Book of Mormon [which is just about the right word you need for opening a BoM -- "forced"]...specifically Ether 2 -- to discover the sequence of how these shiny rocks came to be. What I discovered is that initially the Mormon god -- as He instructed them in constructing this vessel -- forgot all about the need for not only lights but ventilation as well!
So you see. I'm not the only country bumpkin on this! The Mormon god was this bumbling afterthought Mormon god on the design of these barges as well!
Its a redundancy.
Mormon Scholarship...
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Oxymoron at its best.
As my grad chair once said to me...”You went to BYU? I wouldn’t put that on my CV”.
Mormon scholars are not accepted in anyway in the fields of biblical studies, meso-American history or Archeology. And I have a lot of friends in the field who corroborate that.
There sure as HECK had better be some smores and Hot Tea at the end of this thread.
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