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Originally Posted by IAmGamerFun
To start off, why would Joseph say things like tobacco is bad for the human body to try to convince people to join his faith.
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Leaving aside the obvious, why do you think anyone creates a faith and convinces people to join it? Why did L. Ron Hubbard? Why did Mohammed? Smith said lots of things, it's only the ones that were right or inspirational that are remembered.
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Originally Posted by IAmGamerFun
But my point is, saying that would have made people hate him more.
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Charismatic people say all kinds of things and convince people of all kinds of things. Ever wondered why someone like Hitler could have been so beloved by his people? Or Mussolini? Or Stalin? Or how the Catholic popes could work people up into such a frenzy that burning women at the stake was not only acceptable, but considered
righteous?
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Originally Posted by IAmGamerFun
And as for the whole black magic thing. You need to be careful what you read on the Internet. Black magic is prohibited in the church, and we have no record of him using black magic to find the golden plates. And switching spiritual and magic in any faith would make sense. You seem to forget the part where we share the same scriptures, we don't just read the Book of Mormon, we also have the King James Version of the bible. Same as you
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Magic is magic. The Bible makes no distinction between Black and White Magic. That's Harry Potter you're thinking. You forget the part where you add such a bizarre epilogue to the Holy Bible that you functionally change the interpretive meaning of the Scriptures. You must, otherwise Mormons couldn't convince their children that they're really Christians (which was the only safe route in Smith's day, and has continued ever since).