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To: fishtank

I’m wondering if that’s where Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism got his idea of Pilgrim type people living on the moon.


4 posted on 04/04/2011 1:59:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("If You Don't Read The News You're Uninformed, If You Do Read The News You're Misinformed")
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To: SkyDancer

That was my first thought, too, as well.

The early 1800s must have been an interesting time, to say the least.


8 posted on 04/04/2011 2:09:51 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SkyDancer
I’m wondering if that’s where Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism got his idea of Pilgrim type people living on the moon.

FYI, the idea that Joseph Smith believed in moon people came from someone writing about it in the 1880's, 40 years after the fact. There are no contemporary accounts of Joseph teaching this, and nothing in his own writings about moon people.

20 posted on 04/04/2011 3:02:57 PM PDT by oremites
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I’m wondering if that’s where Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism got his idea of Pilgrim type people living on the moon

Wasn't it Bringem Young who said, "Not only on the moon but the Sun too"?

The moon is more believable.

46 posted on 11/30/2012 7:51:00 PM PST by Graybeard58 (What G.O.P.e. candidate is in store for us in 2016?)
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