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The Book of Mormon. Someone literally paid me to read it. It is so glaringly obvious that it's tall tales by Joseph Smith it hurt to read from the cringe. And it was so dark, too! Most memorably the section titled "Doctrine & Covenants." In chapter 132, verse 54, Joseph says Emma Smith, his ninth wife, would be destroyed by god, and her entire family destroyed for good measure, if she refused to sleep with him.
I don't understand how Mormons can be so gullible, and in believing all of it, how they can believe a deity that threatens women for refusing to sleep with a sexual predator can be a deity they want to worship. It makes me sad to think about.
The phrase "and it came to pass" appears 1,404 times in the Book of Mormon which means that it comprises about 2.5% of the entire text.
Joseph Smith was vainly attempting, and badly, to mimic the tone of the King James version of the bible because he felt that this would somehow lend an air of legitimacy to his nonsense. Never you mind that he was tried and convicted in 1826 of running a divination/dowsing scam involving "seeing stones" with a modus operandi that is nearly verbatim the same cockamamie grift he used to claim how the Book of Mormon was "revealed" to him... some four years later. It's painfully obvious that Smith not only made the whole thing up (aside from the gospel of Mark which he cut-and-pasted more or less directly from the KJV) but he also should have hired a more competent author to ghostwrite the damn thing for him.
Verily, verily.