"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

[Genki Hikari]

9. When I was at Lackland for basic training

We had three choices to read: Letters we got. The babble. And the BoM. I'd already read the others, so I tried out the BoM, just to see what it had to say.

I didn't go to sleep because I was either groaning at the awful writing, or laughing at the "history" and other silly assertions.

It was so obviously written by a conman who tried to make something sound "ancient," by oddly doing a poor imitation of the 16th century KJV writing style.

All the verses starting with "And..." grew tiresome, though.

Such a lazy way of writing. Sort of like John Grisham and his overuse of declarative sentences. I've seen entire paragraphs from him of nothing but noun verb direct object, as many as 10 of them at a time.

Still, even though Grisham isn't the greatest writer in the artistic sense, at least he's a great storyteller. Joseph Smith, or whoever else helped him cobble together the BoM? Not so much.

The BoM is an obvious con job, but it only goes to show how dumb most people are that they would read it (or hear it read) and say, "Yep, that's the kind of book and moral philosophy I want to follow!"