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Naked Mormonism Podcast

Ep 16 – Joseph Smith Plagiarist Extraordinaire

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

 

On this episode, we take a look at the View of the Hebrews (Circa 1823) theory for the authorship of the Book of Mormon. But, the fun doesn't stop there. Where else can we possibly look for possible source material? The KJV Bible? Local maps? Textbooks from the early 19th century? All of the above? Let's just see how original the Big Bad BoM is....

 

 

 

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Outro music used with permission

 

Links:

 

Utlm citation for tons of possible source books http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/bomindianorigins.htm

 

 

BoM vs. New world map

http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/holley/holleymaps.htm

 

 

VoH BoM Isaiah study

 

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Authorship_theories/View_of_the_Hebrews/Analysis_of_scripture_use

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Naked Mormonism.

0:04.0

I pledge my life all that I may have.

0:08.0

I will strive to the utmost of my ability

0:12.0

to be what you would want me to be.

0:15.0

It's time to find the truth.

0:18.0

And having set our hand to the plow, we will never look back until this work is finished.

0:30.8

Where is the church heading?

0:32.3

I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith.

0:40.3

But it will not be saved in Washington.

0:44.7

It will be saved by enlightened members of this church.

0:49.7

The explicit tag is there for a reason.

0:52.1

So if you get offended at what's said, it's not for you.

0:55.5

But most importantly,

0:56.4

But you ponder the truths you've heard.

0:59.5

May they help you become even better than you were.

1:04.7

Skeptize everything.

1:09.6

Welcome to episode 16 of the Naked Mormonism podcast. I'm Bryce Blankinagle and thank you for joining me.

1:16.5

Last episode was a little bit of a break from the usual history because I kind of had a crazy couple of weeks.

1:22.5

I went to ReasonCon in Hickory, North Carolina, which was a great fucking time, but I'll talk about it at the end of

1:28.1

this show. So last episode was just a discussion that I had with what I learned to be a quasi

1:34.1

Christian buddy of mine. The discussion got a little deeper than I originally thought it would,

1:38.9

and we kind of pinballed around a lot of different sub-tokics within the umbrella of usual

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