"Correcting" hotel Bibles and the Book of Mormon

Ralph Nielsen nielsen@uidaho.edu
Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (00876354641, v03007801b0610e66c06b@[129.101.112.76]) 


>CASEY (10/7)

>I stayed in a Marriot a couple of weeks ago and, sure enough, there was the

>ever-present Gideons Bible along side The Book of Mormon.  (I wonder which

>one is

>correct.(?))  So I placed two of my own non-tracs [tracts] in each 'holy

>book' so

>that there

>at least would be a small chance that someone might get a little bit of

>reason with his superstition.  Who knows?

>

RALPH NIELSEN
Most people don't know, and Mormons don't want to know, that the Book of
Mormon absolutely condemns polygamy.

And now it came to pass that the people of Nephi, under the reign of the
second king, began to grow hard in their hearts, and indulge themselves
somewhat in wicked practices, such as like unto David of old desiring many
wives and concubines, and also Solomon, his son. (Jacob 1:15 (p. 119)).

"For behold, he [king Noah] did not keep the commandments of God, but he
did walk after the desires of his own heart. And he had many wives and
concubines" (Mosiah 11:2a (p. 167)).

"And it came to pass that Riplakish did not do that which was right in the
sight of the Lord, for he did have many wives and concubines ..." (Ether
10:5a (p. 505)).

I also noticed this interesting bit of B of M genealogy: "Coriantor was the
son of Moron. And Moron was the son of Ethem" (Ether 1:7-8 (p. 488)).

I included the page numbers because nearly all Bs of M issued from Salt
Lake City have the same pagination, regardless of type size. This makes it
easy for us to find the references and highlight them.

Mark Twain called the B of M "chloroform in print." And, sure enough, it
contains the Book of Ether.

Several times I have posted the references above to a Mormon news group,
but nobody has ever noticed them. Like all other "true believers," they see
only what they want to see in their Holy Book.