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Oliver Cowdery, an original witness to the BOM and the first councilor to Joseph Smith, stated that Smith was involved in an affair with Fanny Alger who worked for the Smith family as a nanny. She is stated to have been about 16 at the time. Cowdery was excommunicated by the LDS "church" for publicly speaking against Smith's "affair" at the time. LDS excommunication records still exist which list witnesses to Cowdery's statements. Also, there is a copy of Cowdery's letter to his brother describing the dirty, nasty, filthy affair with Fanny Alger in a museum that certain LDS scholars recognize as legitimate because it is in the family book of letters owned by the Cowdery family. Of course, many modern Mormons will hem and haw about the letter, but Oliver's excommunication for the exact same topic confirms the letter as accurate. None this evidence matters to most Mormons because they do not care if Joseph was a false prophet or not. His teachings are what they have decided to follow, the club they are in satisfies them and they will risk their eternity on the church's teachings. It has also been declared by some LDS husbands that even though they have issues with Joseph and the church, they fear the struggle with their wives if they were to start considering the consequences of leaving the "church", so they eat the fruit that is handed to them and accept the eternal consequences.

Imagine looking at the group of people in the world with the healthiest bodies, the most stable families, the lowest rates of divorce, the most children, who read and know the scriptures the most, who give most to charity, who volunteer the most and tell us we’re somehow terminally ill. Get a new persuasion tactic, because this ain’t working. We’re going to continue having faith in Christ and producing the absolute best fruit.

“Mormonism means Jesus failed to preserve His Church.” Only if your Bible is missing, like, the entire Bible. The scriptural pattern is God establishing a covenant people, watching them drift into apostasy, and then sending prophets to correct, warn, restore, and gather. That is not an embarrassing exception to the Bible. That is the plot of the Bible. Paul literally warned of “grievous wolves,” disciples being drawn away, and a “falling away” before the coming of Christ. So the Restoration is not “Jesus failed.” It is “humans apostatized, and God restored.” Again.

What do you know about what cognitive science knows about the limits and capacities of the human brain? Do you know who Miller and Cowan are and what their influence is on our understanding of short-term memory? What about Baddeley and Hitch wrt working memory? Or Levelt and Bock? Flower and Hayes? If you don’t know and need to ask an AI or the internet for help, then you probably shouldn’t get involved with any conversation about Joseph Smith’s dictation process, ESPECIALLY on Alma 36.