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Joseph Smith’s First Vision Accounts: More Mormon Church Suppression and Cover-Up

May 9, 2012 by Stephen Smoot

The Church is at it again. The different accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision, which the Church has been sneaky enough to hide in places like the Ensign and BYU Studies, continues to be suppressed and hid from unsuspecting Church members. The damning contradictions in the Prophet’s different accounts are, in fact, so damaging that the Church thought it wise to talk about them only in a place so obscure and so concealed that nobody would be able to find it without any serious effort. I am speaking, of course, about YouTube. After all, nobody watches the Mormon Messages videos produced by the Church. What better place to hide this information from Church members than in a place that certainly has never been talked about in an official Church magazine or website?

But enough talk. Let’s take a look at the video itself:
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Filed Under: Anti-Mormon critics, Apologetics, Joseph Smith, LDS History Tagged With: censorship, Church History, First Vision, Joseph Smith, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Mormon Messages

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