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Here is the video www.noolmusic.com/myspace_videos/south_park_s_version_of_the_mormon_history.php
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http://www.noolmusic.com/myspace_videos/south_park_s_version_of_the_mormon_history.php you could at least add the http:// and make your reference a hyperlink. that link seems disfunctional as well. those mormon folks sure have lots of editing power.
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Here is one critic of Mormonism's critique of the episode: http://www.i4m.com/think/southpark/
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I’ve seen the one you’re talking about, and no, it’s not particularly accurate. Joseph Smith was a seventeen-year-old farm boy with a second-grade education when he was first told about the golden plates, and it would be another four years before he was allowed to get them. Once he did have them, at least fourteen people saw them, touched them, etc.; so it certainly wasn’t just his word. (Several of these people eventually left the Church, but not a single one ever retracted his or her testimony of the events; in fact, most of them—even the excommunicates—reiterated the veracity of their testimony, on their respective deathbeds!) Finally, going back to when he first learned of the plates, received the plates, etc., he was *hardly* met with the kind of reception portrayed in the video. In fact, he and his followers were regularly tarred, feathered, raped, pillaged, run out of town, and ever murdered for their beliefs. That’s why thousands of early Latter-day Saints repeatedly lost everything they owned—some of them, even their lives!—when the mobs chased them out of settlements in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. (They did appeal to the various governors and even President Martin Van Buren for redress of grievances, but for the most part, nothing ever materialized except a couple of official apologies from Missouri and Illinois, some 150 years later.) HTH!
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