A follow-up regarding Book of Mormon “coins”

A follow-up regarding Book of Mormon “coins”

 

English silver coinage from the great days of the post-Henrican monarchy
English silver coins from ca. 1700 (Wikimedia Commons). In the old days, I would have been paid my Big Apologetic Bucks with large bags of such coins. Today’s payments, though, are much neater and more convenient: Each week, a six-figure sum is transferred electronically to my bank account for each individual lie that I tell. And if, as I usually do, I can manage to insert some vicious personal nastiness into the lie, the payment increases to SEVEN figures.

 

The other day, I mentioned the topic of Book of Mormon “coinage,” a perennial target of critics of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, as an illustration of a rather different point.

 

Before I leave the subject of coinage altogether, though, here are a couple of links to discussions of the issue that are well worth a look:

 

“Book of Mormon Anachronisms: Coins”

 

“Weighing and Measuring in the Worlds of the Book of Mormon”

 

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

 

 


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