by Dan Wees | Feb 3, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“At length, Joseph pretended to find the Gold plates. This scheme, he believed, would relieve the family from all pecuniary embarrassment. His father [Joseph Smith, Sr.] told me, that when the book was published, they would be enabled, from the profits of the work, to...
by Dan Wees | Feb 3, 2019 | Miscellaneous
THE CASTRATION OF THOMAS LEWIS … at the hands of Bishop Warren Snow. “Warren Snow was Bishop of the Church at Manti, San Pete County, Utah. He had several wives, but there was a fair, buxom young woman in the town that Snow wanted for a wife. He made love to her...
by Dan Wees | Feb 2, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“When Joseph got the plates, the angel instructed him to carry them back to the hill Cumorah, which he did. Oliver says that when Joseph and Oliver went there, the hill opened, and they walked into a cave, in which there was a large and spacious room … “They...
by Dan Wees | Jan 31, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I, Peter Ingersoll, first became acquainted with the family of Joseph Smith, Sen. in the year of our Lord, 1822. — I lived in the neighborhood of said family, until about 1830 … One day he [Joseph Smith, Jr.] came, and greeted me with a joyful...
by Dan Wees | Jan 31, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I had conversations with several young men who said that Joseph Smith had certainly golden plates and that before he attained them he had promised to share with them, but had not done so and they were very much incensed with him.” David Whitmer, Kansas City...
by Dan Wees | Jan 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
One of the most creative and insulting aspects of Joseph Smith’s historical account(s) of the gold plates is that they were taken to heaven. Everyone investigating the LDS Church is faced with deciding about this tentative issue, and everyone is disappointed to find...
