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View Poll Results: How True do you think the Book of Mormon is? | |||
Every word of it is true. | 8 | 22.86% | |
It's mostly true, but with a couple of errors. | 11 | 31.43% | |
The events are more or less true, but reported with an extreme historical bias. | 6 | 17.14% | |
The text could very roughly correlate to a plausible series of events. | 3 | 8.57% | |
Some Joe pulled the thing out of his hat. It's false. | 7 | 20.00% | |
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04-30-2007, 04:51 AM | #41 | |
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04-30-2007, 04:54 AM | #42 | |
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1) I don't need to read the wiki article. As I mentioned above, I have visited the Hyerdahl museum in Oslo. And no, it wasn't any kind of religious pilgramage. Just happened to be one of our stops in Oslo. 2) If I am understanding you correctly and you are in fact claiming that his theories had a major impact on the missionary discussions, then I hereby submit this to be the biggest whopper you have EVER posted under the genre "1970's LDS doctrine and culture, as remembered by SU from his active days".
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04-30-2007, 04:55 AM | #43 | |
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We have pretty good evidence even in the first edition that the BoM taught Christ visited America. It seems as if that seems to substantiate the claim Mormons taught and/or believed Christ came to America before Hyerdahl was born. Show me the linkage. Or did Hyerdahl hear of LDS claims and create a myth for himself?
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04-30-2007, 04:57 AM | #44 | |
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04-30-2007, 04:58 AM | #45 | |
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So Hyerdahl influenced missionary programs in Europe, Asia and elsewhere how? Maybe we can see why you fancy Brodie so much as storyteller, loose with facts and evidence.
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No, I don't remember "Christ in America", but I do remember (vaguely) a filmstrip titled "Ancient America Speaks". Score yourself a point on that one. But I can guarantee you that there was nothing on that topic in the official version of the missionary discussions that I was instucted to teach for two years.
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04-30-2007, 05:08 AM | #47 |
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Here is some stuff on Quetzaquatl from a nonMormon page on Aztec Gods.
http://www.crystalinks.com/aztecgods.html http://www.crystalinks.com/aztecgods2.html "He is sometimes depicted as a white skinned god with a black beard. Recent scholarly theories suggest that the man-god may have been a wandering Viking who had lost his way."
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04-30-2007, 05:11 AM | #48 | |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/christ_i.shtml Here is a missionary brochure from those days (see the picture of the Hawaiian natives adoring Captain Cook a ways down the brochure): http://members.tripod.com/~ronniesim/book_of_mormon.htm All this stuff was adapted from Hyerdahl's phony science whether Mormons knew it or not. Peterson does cite a lot of other phony science.
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04-30-2007, 05:16 AM | #49 | |
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Not vouching for the scholarship of this link but ...
http://www.crystalinks.com/aztechistory.html By the end of Tenochtitlans rule, in 1520, 38 conquered tributary provinces had been made, who had to make payments. However, some of the tribes at the borders stayed strongly independent. This made it easy for the Spanish captain, Cortez to defeat them. The priests reported signs of doom, but Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, thought Cortez was a returning god. When the Spanish saw the gold presents Montezuma offered to them as presents, they wanted to conquer the city. The Spanish defeated the Aztecs and the Catholics felt that it was their duty to destroy every trace of the Aztecs. The few Aztecs that remain have carried on their culture today. "
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