joining missus candle sheets he is an intellectual property attorney and also
author of the book book of mormon book of lies kendall it's great to have you
let's start with the case that you make in the book which is that mormon
doctrine essentially has been played right
yannick
what we found works uh... we start invest based twenty five years ago
when a couple of more monroe
missionary showed up at our door
and
to an investigation while uh...
this book of mormon ever talk talking about we don't know much about
we found that
determines the words in the stories pending copied from other sources
and the sources were all travel in history books
uh... the primary sources one called travels more all most people are
familiar with this
however that was not the only one
they've also copy stories uh... books about arabia
bus across the ocean by uh... palomas folks from mexico
and uh... and
uh... these books about star history of america
so how we shall miss out was there's words in many ends
in marco polo
such as surya
and this comes out of uh... uh... this is the name of cigs area
in turkey
resist what justice smith and we believe that wilder use for example name up a
mother and the character of the book
to joseph smith what they did in eighteen thirty
they were well known
economy cisco gold diggers
and they said that they had found some gold plates underground initial plates
and he's not uh... magical characters on the bright red politically is the book
mormon
will is characters we found out came actually from an old drawing in one of
these books
and their pagan remix ends
now this
has not then exposes has not been owned since eighteen thirty so we are the
first one space when history
to find out where this booking
yes incredible because when you if you were just a casually mentioned that
someone
you know did tons of the book of mormon is almost identical to stuff in the
travels of marco polo the average person myself included would say
well there's gotta be some kind of explanation and i went into this book
pretty skeptical but when you look at it ameen their are passages that are that
are really almost identical and it's very odd because why would the book of
mormon presumably the word of the mormon god which came from the gold plate says
read by joseph smith why would it match-up identically with what's with
essentially in a travelogue it just doesn't make any sense but it is they
are being black and white
is there in black and white
this isn't the genius like ellen ingenious rock
it's it's the implications of are tremendous
the uh...
we need to look at the black-and-white when you look at the passages
this book of mormon is not actually it's got a lot of religious content and love
that comes out of the bible have actually gone through and shown pretty
copied many passengers out of the king james bond
but what being a part of it is and what the mormon church planes is is the
unique image as a step wrote books or all these detailed stories amidst jewish
family
that most men in lehigh
and they see claim that they came across from susan what what happened was
they copied
the travels coming from jerusalem
going down the coast of the red sea
out of this book
monitor traveler
uh... hit by the radio for eighteen twenty six
this
is in eighteen eighty marco polo book this is the original copy
published in england
what beats it belongs
boats
response in eighteen eighteen
what they did was they took a class in books
from overseas mostly publishing and some of them posting philadelphia and they
put line-by-line methodically
through these
and cut by the passages in black-and-white might be sent
social four before we get into the the modern political thing there's another
thing i want to touch on there which is what we talk about joseph smith
go a little bit into his background because
he had a background of being essentially a con man did you not
that is absolutely correct
he had a reputation his father actually started his car and it was a common
thing back to me
early eighteen hundred you can research analyst papers which i've done in my
book
they claim to be able to see in the spirit world
or see underground and feingold treasure this is where we get the trembled bigger
prop
and they weren't commies farmers out of money
saying only siegel treasure buried on your property let's go big sport men
with their young people's all of the country and it's just ridiculous
that and he did he can get a reputation of being very good at this very good
storyteller
he bikinis that story except to claim the sian vision of his angel moreau nine
his bedroom
led him to these treasured underground bolts plates
so here are pretty developed a reputation around eight p area of being
able to actually see treasure
and this is where he parlay that into been claiming to find a religious
scripture
it's funny because i i cite i don't know that that i don't know if this is an
offensive comparison to make a guy i don't really know about what strikes me
as interesting is that
he was kind of laying the groundwork to what later would kind of being the crew
the founding of this religion in the same way that l ron hubbard with
scientology said
you can make a lot of money if you start of religion and and that's essentially
exactly what he did it was almost kind of saying this is what i'm going to do
that is exactly what happened
the we at race that basing back then that they thought uh... he's preachers
are coming through the country
were basically comp
they wouldn't get people to get offerings and they don't have to work
and business were desperately poor
became up with this idea that hey we can make money
coming up with
relation just like all these other people have
just like on the piano run ever did
and and cash in on a of course they didn't referred allright hubbard since
that came later rock but as an example of diana step as an example as example
that that i think that that pets
we have traced
to uh... uh...
the promises mother packed tour of her own block
and i have also deciphered back in the same way
and these are the mark hole
and she sort of given at expose what the family did towards the end of her life
and this is kind of the uh...
prize ending to my book
and she has
basin they did
that yes it was for profit
this was to get them out of poverty
and after they
pre their church in eighteen thirty they started a lot of membership in a few
years
justice met actually had a revelation that sentence
he shouldn't have to work you should be a full-time minister
right and and once again
offerings span
and now the revelation came that they needed on the house for his father
seek is you're this is going instantly hadith pretty well
a candle in the lead we have very limited time left that i wanted to go
out on the political thing but give me a sense of
are you surprised that mitt romney's mormon religion was not more of a fact
there during the the twenty twelve presidential election
i personally was very surprised by
i think
d
there were some media
they're trying to n_b_c_ opposed there's a there's a train wreck
tomatoes about it
i think it was the unknown factor
it was his two things it was the republicans pushing this candidate
and so people come blindly went with
whatever you know the party that's gonna be right evangelical voters who
previously thought more but as i was a cult this kind of blindly accept the
drama
they wanted to run the enter our ara they get some of the invention will grow
up
high-profile banjo preachers student repre imports romney up if that was it
but i think it was the education tax people don't really understand of course
no one knew about this i'm fortunate in finished my book or uh... early enough
aside perpetrator about
and we're going to vote for
we've been working on the twenty five years so it was a long time to let you
borrow
uh... the factor of uh... of
as i said you know for surrealist artists and question provide more and
we're trying to win a specially return or brown
that the
what i said i think they just don't know
and asking why wire wow romney's
the way the i_r_s_ it we need to dig into his believed sick backgrounds
background
sexism in the church right
uh... buried invited its debts will fall within the church debate xd indicate
proc
intellectuals
who grew up with more of a
stuart repair lesbian
they uh... they don't like it a little saving about about the church so that
the church today at the very picked up suppressed team any and anyone coming
against them interpret
and this is a length of the work that out
that hey this is a texan what the right
uh... so i i think it was the the combination of these things that's why
uh... people were killed wed and we've got and i've told everyone i knew
bernard
wake everyone oppler interest at heart
all right the book is book of mormon book of life has been speaking with
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