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To: bentway who wrote (179449)	1/16/2012 1:09:54 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 543106

Yes, if he mormons hadn't exiled themselves to Utah the faith would have had a very hard go of establishing itelf..

To: bentway who wrote (179449)	1/16/2012 2:00:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

>>Where Joe Smith cooked up his religion with skeptical Americans watching and taking notes, in perfectly understandable English.<< It sounds more like King James English than anything else, with a lot of words like sufficeth and lines like "Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men." (1 Nephi 6) I always thought that lent support to the notion that the book is a hoax, because if one were translating a book from an ancient language, one would ordinarily translate it into one's own present vernacular. But if one were writing a book one wants people to accept as holy, one might want to make it sound like the most popular translation of the Bible, and thus attempt to use that kind of language. In fact, the language of the Book of Mormon is neither pure King James English, nor the English that was spoken in America in the 1820s. It's kind of a bastardized King James style. Then of course there are all those references to things like chariots and elephants in the US during the period covered in the book. Yeah, right.