Stop the Press by James W. Ure

Author:James W. Ure [Ure, James W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633883406
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

According to investigators, the church leaders purchased from Mr. Hofmann and then hid in a vault a number of nineteenth-century letters and other documents that cast doubt on the church's official version of its history.

This kind of character assassination attributed to anonymous “investigators” has been all too common throughout the media coverage of this whole event. One wonders why the New York Times would not mention in its long article that almost a year earlier the Church had published a detailed list of its Hofmann acquisitions? Is the Times’ motto still “All the news that's fit to print,” or has it become “All the news that fits a particular perspective?”32

A historian for the church, Richard E. Turley, would write a book with the title Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case.33

According to Richard and Joan Ostling, the Hofmann forgeries could only have been perpetrated “in connection with the curious mixture of paranoia and obsessiveness with which Mormons approach church history.”34 Persecution is proof of the righteousness of the church's position.

After Hofmann's exposure, the LDS Church tried to correct the record, but the “public relations damage as well as the forgery losses meant the church was also a Hofmann victim.”35 Robert Lindsay, author of A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit, suggested that Hofmann “stimulated a burst of historical inquiry regarding Joseph Smith's youthful enthusiasm for magic [that] did not wither after his conviction.” Richard Lyman Bushman's Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling includes a continuation of the exploration of magic.36

Hofmann had found the most vulnerable part of the LDS Church: the incongruities of its nineteenth-century beginnings and history.

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