Do not Mix the Philosophies of Men with Scripture!

            The significance of Joseph Smith’s translation of The Book of Mormon possibly not transcending human influence: is the possibility that although The Book of Mormon may contain pure ideas uninfluenced by fallible human wisdom, it may also have been unconsciously laced with the philosophies of men.  Yet, if one refuses to understand the philosophies of men how can they ever hope to understand how they may have been unconsciously mixed with the perfect ideas of God as Joseph Smith “translated”/“interpreted” The Book of Mormon by the “gift of God?”  Often Mormon’s (and many religious people at that) fear studying the philosophies of man because they are afraid that it will make it difficult to discern what ideas are coming from God.  This view is pure stupidity and evidence of the giant ignorance of American.  Mormonism just happened to be born within this evolving ignorance. Still, 200 years after philosophers framed the conditions that allowed the Mormon religion to be birthed into existence, philosophy is a discipline rarely ever encountered on a college level, and almost never even mentioned in Kindergarten through 12^th grade education. [My writings] This text will not value this stupid ignorance in the slightest.  To think that one could study The Book of Mormon without a background in philosophy and discern what parts of Smith’s “translation”/“interpretation” were human and without human implication is delusional.  Even Joseph Smith, after “translating”/“interpreting” The Book of Mormon by the “gift of God,” clearly understood that his “translation”/“interpretation,” which was accomplished, according to his word, by the “gift of God,” did not guarantee that it avoided human influence—else why would Joseph Smith have written in his “Introduction” to his “translation”/“interpretation” of The Book of Mormon, “if there are faults they are the mistakes of men; wherefore, condemn not the things of God. . . .”  The fear of studying philosophy is not the product of religion or the patriotic American, but rather the product of stupid Americans who would rather remain ignorant as to what philosophies created in the 1800^th century America that allowed Joseph Smith to see God as a tangible being and to “translate”/“interpret” The Book of Mormon from physical golden plates—as Smith claimed he did.  My writing will have no patience for this widespread American stupidity—which, perhaps by the influence of Satan himself has seeped into the majority of the population of Active Mormons and active religious people across America.