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In 2013, LDS chaplains attended a seminar. One session was titled "Finding Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon."
[The video itself is titled "Book of Mormon and Mesoamerican Archaeology."]
The seminar was presented by a BYU professor of Ancient Scripture. He has all kinds of credentials and was introduced to the audience with a strong endorsement.
(This professor is a great guy and I like him a lot, so I'm not posting this to be critical of him. He's just doing his job, and he really believes M2C. There's no problem with that. It's the non-neutral neutrality I'm focusing on here.)
You can still see the video on the Church's website, here:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media-library/video/2013-10-010-book-of-mormon-and-mesoamerican-archaeology?lang=eng
Needless to say, the chaplains were never told about the New York Cumorah or any theories other than M2C.
What do you suppose they'll believe and teach for the rest of their lives?
This type of indoctrination at an official Church function, made available on the Church's web page for future instruction, teaches all these chaplains to disbelieve the prophets when they (eventually) discover what the prophets have taught about the New York Cumorah.
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Title slide |
LDS chaplains learning M2C |
Citing anonymous editorials to support M2C by claiming Joseph Smith wrote them |
The 1929 Ivins quotation, avoiding the 1928 Ivins quotation in which Pres. Ivins reaffirmed the New York Cumorah |
Using Mayan artwork to illustration the scriptures |
Claiming the single large stone mentioned in the Book of Mormon was one of the thousands of Mayan stelas |
The chaplains learned it all, including the claim that Joseph Smith wrote the anonymous 1842 Times and Seasons articles that show he learned Book of Mormon geography from a travel book and supposedly changed his mind about the New York Cumorah.
Here they learned about Pres. Ivins' 1929 talk, the one that was in the original version of the Gospel Topics Essay on Book of Mormon Geography.
After I pointed out that in 1928 Pres. Ivins had re-affirmed the New York Cumorah, the committee removed the 1929 statement from the Gospel Topics Essay instead of providing both of his statements.
Here, the chaplains learned that the Mayans were illustrating the Book of Mormon.
Who needs Arnold Friberg?
Here, the chaplains learned that the one large stone with a story written on it that is mentioned in 1,000 years of Nephite history was actually just one of thousands of such Mayan stelas.
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