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“Ever since Joseph Smith Jr.’s murder, critics have accused him of being a conman, though they can’t decide if he was a genius conman or a horrible failure, because of the whole got-himself-killed thing. Critics fret little over the details as long as everyone agrees he was some kind of fraud. Because every good con artist knows that in order to really commit to the bit, you gotta let people murder you first. Only amateurs try to survive.”
― Jonah Barnes, The Lost Gems of Genesis: How Apocryphal Texts Prove Joseph Smith Fixed the Bible

“If there was no Old Testament, atheists would only have to complain about the crusades and their parents.”
― Jonah Barnes, The Lost Gems of Genesis: How Apocryphal Texts Prove Joseph Smith Fixed the Bible