I wonder how they managed to tell a complex story like that before the invention of writing?

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    2 months ago

    Unlike all of those true books in the Bible like the one with the talking snake and the one with the guy who came back from the dead?

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      Yes, because this one was immediately recognized as BS and the guy who wrote it was sentenced to 3 years hard labour in gaol. So not even a good fake.

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      True and real are not the same thing.

      You can stick your head in a hat and make up ahistorical rambling nonsense about native Americans, just like Joseph Smith did, but it will never be an actual book of Mormon.