noel wrote:"Dan Vogel has interesting comment . . .
Provides sources for the content of the Book of Abraham."
DanielPeterson wrote:I hope that the alleged sources that Dan offers now are better than they once were. Bill Hamblin and I had great fun at his expense many years ago when he and Brent Metcalfe claimed Immanuel Kant as a source for the Book of Abraham's astronomical ideas. I'll have to track down our response to him on that point.
I've had great fun at John Gee's expense for many years questioning the
source in which Joseph Smith determined that a king's name is given in the
characters above his head in Facsimile No. 3. What is the name of the king within the hieroglyphic writing and where is the royal Cartouche to signify a royal name? And show me the name
"Shulem" which is said to be
represented by the characters above his hand.
Clearly, and without question, Joseph Smith made a complete buffoon of himself in pretending to decipher the writing. But what's worse are the fools that believe him, such as Dan Peterson and John Gee -- a pair of nuts.
F-off, Dan, and the Book of Mormon horse you rode in on. You think like a child. Your loyalty to the church has retarded your brain. Time to snap out of it and grow up!