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Originally Posted by KP
Third, jtg33: I have no idea who Joseph Smith is. LOL
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LOL
He was the guy who founded Mormanism via visions of Native Americans saying that Christ was actually born on the North American continent and later wound up in the Middle East (I never understood how). He then supposedly went out into the woods and dug up some ancient gold tablets, along with a translator stone. This allowed him to translate the tablets, which turned out to be a different version of the New Testament. Only he could look at the stones, however, because if somebody else saw them they would stop working. So different translations of the same basic story were made to form the Book of Mormon.
At least that's what I gathered form watching South Park.