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Mormons: your stupid story still makes no sense!

 
 
 
I have always thought that the stone was sort of transparent, like quartz, so that you look through it to get the translation. Or maybe my mind is being influenced by the South Park episode where Joseph Smith is using the Seer stone like primitive goggles to peer into the top hat to get the text.

ETA: OK, I just did a little research and found this. It seems to be the official LDS account of how Joseph Smith used the stone to create the Book of Mormon.

https://www.lds.org/topics/book-of-mormon-translation?lang=eng

Apparently there was more than one special stone. The one shown in the OP is the second type of stone. Interesting read. Pretty much all 100% grade A bullshit, but interesting nonetheless.

Joseph Smith and his scribes wrote of two instruments used in translating the Book of Mormon. According to witnesses of the translation, when Joseph looked into the instruments, the words of scripture appeared in English. One instrument, called in the Book of Mormon the “interpreters,” is better known to Latter-day Saints today as the “Urim and Thummim.” Joseph found the interpreters buried in the hill with the plates.16 Those who saw the interpreters described them as a clear pair of stones bound together with a metal rim. The Book of Mormon referred to this instrument, together with its breastplate, as a device “kept and preserved by the hand of the Lord” and “handed down from generation to generation, for the purpose of interpreting languages.”17
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The other instrument, which Joseph Smith discovered in the ground years before he retrieved the gold plates, was a small oval stone, or “seer stone.”18 As a young man during the 1820s, Joseph Smith, like others in his day, used a seer stone to look for lost objects and buried treasure.19 As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture.20

Apparently for convenience, Joseph often translated with the single seer stone rather than the two stones bound together to form the interpreters. These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable and worked in much the same way such that, in the course of time, Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters.2
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I remember a Mormon who visited this board for a brief time. He said that the whole stone thing was just a myth made up by anti-Mormons.
 
He not only used a stone he'd found in a farm field to "translate" the "reformed Egyptian" that ancient Jews -- Jews!! -- had decided on for the rendering of their precious New World record -- he put the stone in his hat and held it up to his face to make the words magically appear. Yet somehow his scripture is padded with page after page of Isaiah, including interjected words that the King James translators had inserted into the text in the early 17th Century. The earlier post is right: Mormonism is an object lesson in the religious mindset. It's also a discouraging bullet point for freethinkers on the persistence of obstinate, primitive thinking. Time for your beverage of choice, this is gonna be a long wait.
 
BH said:
Remember that even Satan passes himself as an angel of light.
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But if Satan was passing himself off as Moroni and this bullshit was the best story he could come up with, then the guy really isn't any kind of concern.
 
100 Mormon men were surveyed: "What do most Mormon women say during sex?"

And the top answer is: "Get off me, Daddy, you're crushing my smokes."


Sorry, couldn't resist...
 
Why do you always bring two Mormons fishing with you?

Because if you only bring one, he'll drink all your beer.
 
Couldn't it be some kind of agate?
 
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