On August 11th, 2013 I posted a compilation on the exmormon subreddit. I worked every day for many hours during a 3-4 week period. The compilation consisted of responses from university professors who specialize in the fields of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Archaeology, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Anthropology, and Egyptology. Their responses were directed…
Category: Book of Abraham
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Rewriting the Scriptures Edition!!
If you haven’t heard, the CoJCoL-dS decided to dust off the old scriptures, polish ’em up, and give them a slightly different meaning. A bit of additional hedging. The most dramatic change was to shy away from the claim that the Book of Abraham was translated from the papyrus in…
And…The Book of Abraham is de-canonized
When I was growing up, I had a triple combination. This was a copy of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Abraham in one book. We studied the Book of Abraham in seminary, the same year as the Old Testament. I remember my seminary teacher actually…
BBC’s This World: The Mormon Candidate
Finally, a Mormon documentary for the rest of us. Hailed by the creator of the I am an Ex Mormon video series as “my favorite video about Mormonism I have ever seen.” Part 1: Mitt Romney Part 2: Mormons Part 3: Exmormons Part 4: Prophets Part 5: Park Part 6:…
Your Sunday School Lesson: The First Vision
According to the philosopher Mircea Eliade, of whose work I learned at BYU, every community, tribe, or nation requires an origin myth. The account of a community’s or practice’s origin has far reaching consequences because it implies how they relate to the cosmos, which is necessary for human beings to…
Doomed Unrequited Love and a Very Special Hieroglyph
The next morning over breakfast we compared notes on the dance. This didn’t take too long since no one had really met any serious prospects. The ones that were closest to finding a romance were Amy with Greg and her sister Alexandra with this guy Matt who was from Ely….