This Is Not The Place The proof of faith is a dilemma that church skeptics have wrestled with for thousands of years. From the times of mythological religion to Christianity, from Mormonism to Islam, the question of which religion is correct and how we know it to be true has been in the public arena for centuries. In the essay, "This Is Not The Place," the author Hampton Sides examines the religious views of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, or better known as the Mormons. Sides does not interview missionaries in this essay but rather interviews archeologists, both Mormon and non Mormon, who have been sent out by the Mormon church to prove what ten million members of the church hold to be true. This commission attempting to prove the writings of The Book of Mormon has caught the eye of both the Mormon community, tourist companies and the skeptics of the Mormon Church alike.
The Book of Mormon English Missionary Edition Soft...
Reprint of the 1830 edition of The Book of Mormon,...
English: Title page of a 1830 copy of The Book of ...Sides effectively evaluates the findings or lack there of, of this great commission by interviewing the skeptics, the believers and the ones who have turned away from the church after the facts have been laid out.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by a man named Joseph Smith as a young farm boy, began the task of translating the book of Mormon, a listing of events written by the hand of Mormon upon golden plates taken from the plates of Nephi. These golden plates, which were found by Joseph Smith through a vision from the angel Moroni, were written in what Smith described as "Reformed Egyptian." Smith was able to read these tablets with the help of some magical stones that were given to him by the angel Moroni. The Book of Mormon was published in 1830 and soon...