Brant Gardner: The end of M2C - Part 2

Brant Gardner's series on "Heartland vs Mesoamerica" is unusually helpful because he continues to demonstrate why M2C is evaporating among modern Latter-day Saints who are fully informed about the issues.

In our day, transparency is key. We can all read the original sources, thanks to the Joseph Smith Papers specifically and the Internet generally. We can all understand the origins of M2C and how the M2C advocates have perpetuated their theory through censorship and obfuscation. 

Brant is doing a good job of showing how the M2Cers have been doing this for so long.

In the process, he is also resurrecting some of the problems with the Saints book, which I still hope can be rectified, at least in the digital versions. 

Volume 1, in particular, would be significantly improved with just a few edits, but apparently no one is working on those volumes any longer so that may never happen.

But to his credit, Brant brought up the editorial justification for censoring Cumorah from the Saints book, which I had written about back in 2018, here:

https://saintsreview.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-historians-explain-censorship-in.html

Maybe this new attention will prompt someone to finally fix Saints, Volume 1.

Hope springs eternal...

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My review of Brant's part 2 is here:

https://interpreterpeerreviews.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-heartland-versus-mesoamerica-part-2.html