WOTM: Scale
Mormon apologists will now tell you that the Book of Mormon peoples were just a small group, and located in an isolated area we just haven't discovered — as yet. This is not what I was taught when I was a Mormon — nor is it how your average Mormon talked about the BoM peoples when I was growing up. Nor was that sentiment reflected in the paintings the Church used in their official publications (I've used many of those paintings in this video). All of that changed when the DNA showed that the Native Americans weren't Hebrews. Of course, the problem is the Book of Mormon is very clear about the scale, scope, and spread of the Book of Mormon peoples. Enjoy!
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Thank you. I was in for 42 years, and it's nice to hear you articulate the problems with the bullshit so effectively. Keep up the great work.
The recent rationalizations of Mormon apologists like Sorenson, Hauck, et. al., are a crock of caca. So NOW members are supposed to believe that millions of Jaredites, Nephites, Lamanites, Mulekites only inhabited a small, isolated area of Central America —no matter what the text itself claims? Just imagine: nobody ever dropped a wheat or barley seed, a cow or horse never escaped into the jungle, the Olmecs and Mayans never adopted even one Semitic word into their vocabulary, let alone caught on to the steel metallurgy those weird neighbors were forging, nor saw how useful a wheel could be? And after the complete slaughter of the Nephites by the Lamanites on a hill called Cumorah, smack dab when the Mayans and Teotihuacanos had reached the Classic stage of their civilizations, good ol' Moroni hoofs it, with heavy, bulky gold plates in his backpack, all the way from Chiapas to upstate New York to bury them in a mound that he also names Cumorah, right? I mean… Cheeses Crust… Occam slices right through what those apologists got straight out of the steer's rear, still steaming.