WOTM: Steel Swords and Burning Bosoms
Sorry to load these two up so late, but I got hit by a crazy heat wave last week that made shooting impossible (105 in late October — good thing there's no climate change!).
I've been wanting to make this video for a long time. At the heart of the evidence against The Book of Mormon is the claim that the Native Americans were a metal age people. Joseph Smith just transferred the elements of the Biblical world onto the Native Americas with spectacularly falsifiable results. Some think it's a miner detail (spelling pun intended), but it's an unsurmountable problem for Mormonism.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me get this made. I hope you find it interesting whether or not Mormonism is of interest to you. Just trying to close another door for those wearing the magic underwear. B
Comments (5)
Thanks Brian! I look back and wonder why it took me so long to get out. But, you're right. I did believe in it. I had a family to think about. It's not easy to just walk away. When I did, it was painful. Now, after many years I live a much more fuller and happier life.
Yay!!!! So happy for you.
wow. It makes the rest of the world feel like American mormons should not be in charge of anything more dangerous than a pointy stick.
You already know that I identify with what you cover in this episode. While serving a Mormon Mission in South America is when I first began to have questions. Later, when in graduate school, those questions became concerns. Then, as a university professor, the more I researched and taught courses on Latin American culture and civilization, those concerns because doubts, which morphed into suspicions, which culminated in… convictions. It's a fraud, pure and simple. Period. That Mormons continue to live in denial of the scientific evidence, using every rationalization imaginable, is beyond sad: it's pathetic.
Amen! I escaped the Morg in 2002 at the ripe old age of 43 once I undertook the same sort of knowledge quest Brian talks about in this excellent video. Funny to find another "Mark Larsen" and ExMo among Brian's small group of patrons. :-)