Reason #116: Testimony Sleight of Hand?

At the most recent LDS conference, LDS leader Jeffry R. Holland held up a copy of what he claimed was the actual Book of Mormon that was read by Joseph and Hyrum Smith the day they died in a jail cell in Carthage, MO (related in D&C 135:4- 5.) Mormons would like to depict the death of Joseph Smith as a martyrdom of an innocent man, when in fact both Mormons and non-Mormons who knew Joseph Smith were angered by his aspirations to the presidency of the United States, his Bernie-Madoff-like bank failure, and his sexual escapades with young girls and other women already married to his friends. But Holland’s impassioned waving of a copy of the Book of Mormon has problems, according to “Danna” on the Recovery From Mormonism web site 10-06-09....