What do you think about the book of Mormon?

While a lot of people are calling it a fraud that is easy to detect - they seem to ignore the avalanche of opposing views from people deciding to join the LDS church - the LDS church is the only major American religion who's numbers are not in decline. Today (being Sunday) about 6000 people got confirmed members of our church - which doesn't include our own children, those are only true converts.

These fools in here say it's easy to prove it as a fraud, but nobody offered any real evidence aside from "it put me to sleep" - as if the bible wouldn't; or "check out southpark" and you really don't want to cite "some dude who posted online after getting his information from southpark" in your book report.

Take into account that contrary to what people are saying in here, there are tons of interesting things that Smith translated about meso-american culture that was not known in his day. Today people have a whole lot less to make fun on with the Book of Mormon. While it started out almost laughable in terms of non-faith evidence today there are scores of books written about evidences.

Last but certainly not least - Smith gave his life in defense of the book and the religion, none of his witnesses ever recanted even when many of them were opposing Smith for a time, and in 180 years nobody has found really good evidence against it.

It's changed my life from a religious point of view, don't fool yourself into thinking it's so cut and dry being false, a rapidly growing world religion disagrees with the naysayers.

Be sure to look at the original version too (maybe you can find it on the internet). You will see that the original is written even worse than the current version. It also has all the original crazier stuff i.e. white and delightsome and dark and loathsome.

Also, notice that it claims Jesus was born in Jerusalem. He was actually born in Bethlehem. Also note all the big wars that supposedly happened, yet there is no empirical evidence of such things happen. in fact, there is more evidence that those things did not happen i.e. the introduction of horses to America.

How crazy the BOM is will make an excellent report. There is plenty of credible sources for you to use.

I think that Y!A is not a good place to ask because very very few people here have read it, let alone know much about it. The answers you are getting here pretty much support this.

I'm always curious what makes it such an obvious fraud. And if it is such an obvious fraud, then why are there so many doctors, lawyers, and scientists in the church? Not to mention several million active members. I can see a couple hundred people getting sucked in if it was such an obvious fraud, but a couple million active members?

Oh, I get it! It's an obvious fraud because of a South Park episode!!!

South Park? Do people really take that seriously??

To answer your question - if you are doing a book report, you will have to at least read some of it. You won't get much book report worthy material here. A book report is written about a book you have read, not a book you were too lazy to read so you asked someone who had never read it.

What's your book report specifically about? Or about the book as a whole? I'm a little confused.

I have lived in Utah my whole life and have family/friends who are Mormon. I have gone to church and I have read some of the book of mormon (yes it is amazingly boring!!!!!)

So I probably know a lil' more about it than most people on here but I'm not completely brain washed like the mormons who are posting....So if you have any questions feel free to email me kamiilmartinez@yahoo.com

The Book of Mormon is a fictional product of the nineteenth century, based on the KJV Bible and a book called "View of the Hebrews". The basic premise is that ancient Israelites crossed the ocean in a ship, settled in the "promised land" and started a massive civilization that rose to dizzying heights of technology and population. The people split into two groups early in the story, one righteous and one wicked. God cursed the wicked group by turning their skin dark. The dark-skinned and white-skinned people fought many wars throughout the book and in the end, the dark-skinned people wiped out the whites. The dark-skinned victors are the ancestors of the native Americans.

Basically, it is "fan fiction" of the Bible, in a western setting.

The book is demonstrably false, and full of anachronisms. Nobody outside Mormonism accepts its historicity.

Mormon apologists claim all sorts of "evidence" supporting the book, but when pressed, they generally fall back on textual analysis of the Book of Mormon itself, claiming that their analysis "proves" that it was written by someone other than Joseph Smith. Joshsy is a case in point. He claims, "there are tons of interesting things that Smith translated about meso-american culture that was not known in his day." Such as? Joshsy must be referring to the horses and chariots, the elephants, the steel swords and armor, the metal coinage, and many other Book of Mormon claims that modern-day archaeology of the Americas has proven false. Or maybe he's referring to the recent dna analysis of hundreds of native American groups across the continents that prove quite conclusively that the indigenous peoples of North & South America migrated from Siberia 10,000+ years ago, and did not sail over from Israel in 600 BC. Critics of the church have compiled mountains of problems similar to these, and Mormon apologists simply clamp their hands over their ears and shout "la la la, I'm not listening, and neither should you!" to their Mormon flock.

Good luck with your book report!

It's a book that is poorly written and plagiarized a couple works of fiction and disguised it as a holy book.

It is incredibly inaccurate and mentions things out of place for the time period and the location. There were no elephants or honey bees in the Americas, despite the Book of Mormon's claim, and there was no steel at the time the book takes place in the region, either.

Find "The Book of Mormon made easier." It's a breakdown of every part. And amazing, too.

I think the book of mormon is a combination of various source material that Joseph Smith plagarized , such works as View of the Hebrews, Marco Polo, various travel journals, ideas of Solomon Spaulding, the Bible of course, among others. Yeps, it puts me to sleep too, Mark Twain called it chloroform in print.

Now if you're talking about the broadway play, the thing is gold.

That's your problem, amigo.

It puts a lot of us to sleep, too, because English speakers generally don't understand Isaiah's writings. Until they persist and keep at it, then they begin to intuit the way he says things and begin to learn.

Just saw this yesterday.....

The book of mormon --- also known as --- Jesus, the Western: The most financially lucrative con job of the American West.