Cumorah confusion, Saints book errors, SITH

We live in fun times. 

I'm fine with people believing whatever they want, but people in positions of trust and responsibility have an obligation to be open, transparent, and accurate. They should separate facts from their assumptions, inferences, theories, and hypotheses (the FAITH model).

And they should pursue clarity, charity and understanding.

Instead, our SITH and M2C scholars continue to promote their theories by misleading their Latter-day Saint students and followers.

They keep repeating the same mantras as they seek to persuade Latter-day Saints to embrace their theories instead of what Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery taught. 

Lazy learners simply accept what these scholars say. But Latter-day Saints who accept responsibility for their own decisions and education can see how SITH and M2C 

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Saints book. Latter-day Saints around the world rely on the Saints book as their primary, and basically only, source of information about Church history. But volume 1 is replete with misinformation. 

For the first of several suggestions for improvement on the Saints books, see my comments here:

https://www.ldshistoricalnarratives.com/2025/09/improving-saints-example-1.html

M2C (the Mesoamerican/two-Cumorahs theory). The Hill Cumorah dedication has generated considerable online comments. Here is an example of the confusion and ignorance produced by our M2C scholars:

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As exemplified in these Instagram comments, few current Latter-day Saints know what Joseph, Oliver and their contemporaries taught about Cumorah. Joseph Smith and his contemporaries had no confusion about the Hill Cumorah. Everyone knew it was a fact that the hill where he found the plates was the same hill referred to in the text as Cumorah/Ramah.

But, as Brigham Young feared, this knowledge has been lost to modern generations, thanks to the efforts of the M2C scholars who have repudiated what Joseph, Oliver, and their contemporaries and successors taught.

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SITH. People have sent me links to an audacious SITH-promoting video by the usual suspects, now on a channel ironically called "Informed Saints." I'll have more detailed commentary in a few days.

Your jaw will drop when you watch the way they manipulate the historical sources in the guise of "following the sources."

Here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiAx1CVPlc0

The video includes bragging about teaching these things to BYU students who are defenseless against the onslaught of SITH and M2C.

In my opinion, this is shameful. People can believe whatever they want, but it would be more useful for BYU professors to teach facts and then let students make informed decisions instead of promoting their own theories by omitting facts that contradict their theories--facts such as what Joseph and Oliver explicitly taught.

Stay tuned.