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December 3rd, 2010

Can Joe Smith really have been such a transparent fraud? Yup.

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  3. don’t mo and joe claim to know things about jesus’ life (or, in joe’s case, about jesus’ pre-life life) that jesus could disagree with?

  4. @ Jean – Yep they need to have a shower/bathroom scene very soon!!! Joe definately fits my definition of “ass hat”!!!!

  5. Absolutely hilarious! Thanks guys, I look forward to the new J&M strip everytime I open my e-mail inbox. You guys are the best. I was turned on to this by Daylightatheism, and I have not been disappointed. Great work.

  7. @spoing Thanks for plugging my site in the comments under the previous strip. It’s still quite new, but I have hopes it will become something. As for what they might use those penises for, I hadn’t thought of that, maybe because they were probably all flaccid. But you did think of that, and I’m impressed.
    @Author, not meaning to make this all about me. Great strip. Your way of coming at things sideways is pretty darn clever.

  9. I finished reading One Nation Under Gods which is a history of the Mormons (a bit biased since it was written by a Christian, but still full of reliable info). It seems that gold digging and treasure hunting were big swindles back then.

  14. Pshaw, let me tell you
    that trick is easy to do
    On a paper any words put
    Then cover it up with your foot
    whats on it, your foot, nothing new.

  16. @NBH

    Not bad. Might I suggest, to get round the stilted third line:
    “…
    Think of some words, and then write them
    And hide them away from all sight, then
    Cover it up…etc”

  19. I recall that Sam Harris has written a 30-digit number down somewhere and hidden the paper. Maybe Joe could tell us what it is. And there’s treasure in them thar digits as I guess the Randi Foundation might be interested to know.

  20. A new cast member! This is huge!!! Though I always imagined Joseph Smith living with L Ron Hubbard, in a “new money” version of J&M.

    Maybe it’s Moses hiding behind that hat to teach our heroes a lesson about gullibility!

  21. To James Hutchings: Joe Smith is covered by a hat because his various assistants reported that Smith placed his face in a hat, to block out light, and then dictated the Book of Mormon. The BoM was inscribed on golden plates which were written in .. are you ready?… “Reformed Egyptian” by Christ-worshiping Jews who migrated from Jerusalem to the Americas *before* Christ was even born! Haw Haw Haw!! And Mormons actually believe this nonsense. And you thought the underwear was funny …

  22. Christinsanity, Moses’s Folly [but no Moses”], Muhammad’s Fits, Smith’s Fraud, White’s Balck Magic, the Hindu Illusion, the Jain Pain [?], the Buddha Wrong Path, the Dao No Way, the Shinto Warrior, the Church of Nescientology, Church of Nescience, [ Nescience= ignorance- solecism], the Zoroastrian Remnant [ the Parsees and whatever else one might add.
    Karl Giberson is ever a riot!
    Add him, Francisco Jose Ayala, Kenneth Miller, Keith Ward, John Harwood Hick, Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig to Mo, Yeshua, Smith and Moses.

    The top theologians prtattle solecistic, sophisticated sophistry-ignorant, comphicated nonsense of wily,woeful woo!

  24. I maybe think joe’s face cover with a hat, because its not joe. Its someone else, we do not know this person yet. Maybe this person would uncover his face later.

  29. @spoing Thanks for that. Well worth a visit. Don’t know how I missed it, and I guess my request has already been granted and the absurdity of Ganesha already noted. Retroactive wish fulfillment. Ho ho.

  31. Joe invented a pretty good system if you happen to be a man. Marry enough wives with different cycles to ensure success every night. Don’t know how he every got any work done.

  32. @Sister Marie … come to think of it most religions were the inventions of men and hence it stands to reason that they will have “special features” which benefit the male gender … the only female-created religion I can recall (apart from Oprah) is that of Mary Baker Eddy who cunningly turned Christ into a scientist. Also she seems to have gotten rid of some of the nasty bits like original sin and hell.

  33. (Sigh) Thought we might see Moses again, but no luck.
    I just have this wistful image of Moses and his mates at the foot of the mountain, holding the stone tablets saying something like’;
    Ónly ten? After the thousands that we made up? Well: It’s a start

  34. (Sigh) Was hoping for Moses to turn up again, but no luck.
    I have this shy notion of him and his mates at the foot of the mountain, looking at the stone tablets and saying something like:
    ‘Ónly 10? After the thousands that we created? Well, it’s a start’

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