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Whats the BEST biography on this crazy lil nigga

>> No.17070979

>>17070938
No Man Knows my History is kinda kino. That’s the only one I’ve read but I liked it. Written by an ex-Mormon.

>> No.17071159

>>17070938
History of the Church

>> No.17071961
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17071961

>>17070979
>read No Man Knows My History
>be devastated losing faith in god
>read Rough Stone Rolling by practicing historian Richard Bushman
>it's even more devastating than Fawn M Brody erasing even the slightest shred of doubt

the best is Rough Stone Rolling, no contest

>> No.17072032

>>17071961
>t. not gonna make it into heaven

>> No.17072817

>>17070979
iirc, she had 2 things going for her, historian + access to internal historical records due to who she was connected to.

>> No.17074105

>>17070938
he has a kind of autobiography in the beginning of the Pearl of Great Price

>> No.17074124

>>17074105
It's an excerpt of >>17071159 so that's where to get the longer story all the way up to 1844

>> No.17074139

>>17070938
Can we make this into a Mormonism general? How do you apologize for the fact that the scrolls Joseph Smith "translated" have been unanimously and without a doubt been identified as normal funerary texts by Egyptologists?

>> No.17074314

>>17074139
With the Tvedtnes mnemonic device theory.

>> No.17074332

>>17074139
They defend it by saying it served as inspiration for the revelation or that we cant say that %100
as we dont actually have the full original copy of what smith was working with

>> No.17074345

>>17074139
>Can we make this into a Mormonism general?
Literary circles ought to start treating the Book of Mormon as an (even THE) American national epic, because it's certainly written as such, and you'll get more out of it that way than if you put it aside just because it's a religious text.

>> No.17074407

How am I supposed to believe in the Book of Mormon if it's blatantly ahistorical? "Just look at it as allegories bro" feels like a form of defeat. We don't see Jesus's miracles as metaphor.

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>>17074139
the nice thing about mormonism is its inception is relatively recent; we can go back and call bullshit a lot more readily.

pic related, dough boy's outfit is awefuly close to the uniform worn in their extra special clubhouse