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		<title>By: alexandria</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-1/#comment-483892</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the lds people are pulling out claims that we were persecuted from false accounts and such, then explain the missouri law detailing the order for the &quot;extermination&quot; of mormons. While, yes...it it true that members of the church burned presses. As di many non-members burn homes, church owned presses, ad ransacked and set fire to the nauvoo temple. And as a result of the missouri order, man church members were raped,beaten and tarred and feathered. You can find many accounts of these horrors in journals from both sides. 
Furthermore, I think this whole debate is stup. Let people belive how they want. It is not your life, so why should any of you care if I believe in a certain religion or not. People will always choose what they wish.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the lds people are pulling out claims that we were persecuted from false accounts and such, then explain the missouri law detailing the order for the &#8220;extermination&#8221; of mormons. While, yes&#8230;it it true that members of the church burned presses. As di many non-members burn homes, church owned presses, ad ransacked and set fire to the nauvoo temple. And as a result of the missouri order, man church members were raped,beaten and tarred and feathered. You can find many accounts of these horrors in journals from both sides.<br />
Furthermore, I think this whole debate is stup. Let people belive how they want. It is not your life, so why should any of you care if I believe in a certain religion or not. People will always choose what they wish.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-5/#comment-483433</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haplogroup X.  Look it up.  A statistically significant portion of Native American and Central-and South-American indigenous peoples HAD to have been descendants of Middle Eastern Jews.  Proof is in the pudding, and as time marches on, fact after fact will come to light proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Book of Mormon is a historical treasure written roughly two millenia ago, and is in no way the hoax so many claim it to be.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haplogroup X.  Look it up.  A statistically significant portion of Native American and Central-and South-American indigenous peoples HAD to have been descendants of Middle Eastern Jews.  Proof is in the pudding, and as time marches on, fact after fact will come to light proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Book of Mormon is a historical treasure written roughly two millenia ago, and is in no way the hoax so many claim it to be.</p>
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		<title>By: petet2112</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-5/#comment-478943</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about the hoax of Paul McCartney being dead. Supposedly their was a song on their &quot;White&quot; album when played backwards it would say &quot;Paul Is Dead&quot; repeatedly, then too add to the &quot;mystery&quot; is the cover of their &quot;Abbey Road&quot; album where it shows The Beatles crossing a street. John, George and Ringo have shoes on. Paul is barefooted. Its a common ritual that when someone dies and is buried in a coffin and an open casket wake is performed, the corpse does not have shoes on. Why ? He / She is dead and there is no reasoning to put shoes on the corpse.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about the hoax of Paul McCartney being dead. Supposedly their was a song on their &#8220;White&#8221; album when played backwards it would say &#8220;Paul Is Dead&#8221; repeatedly, then too add to the &#8220;mystery&#8221; is the cover of their &#8220;Abbey Road&#8221; album where it shows The Beatles crossing a street. John, George and Ringo have shoes on. Paul is barefooted. Its a common ritual that when someone dies and is buried in a coffin and an open casket wake is performed, the corpse does not have shoes on. Why ? He / She is dead and there is no reasoning to put shoes on the corpse.</p>
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		<title>By: Cin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sakul do you really believe that there were no concentration camps or people who were oppressed and died in them?  Why did so many people have numbers on them who survived the war?   I can not believe anyone would say the Holicost(sp) was fake.  I guess then Ann Franks Diary is a fake as well.  Tell that to her father who survived the camps( I guess you can&#039;t as I believe he is now dead as is my father who was there during ww 2).  Many of the witnesses died during the war and those who didn&#039;t came out very skinny and undernurished.  Yet there are (were) lots of witnesses of what the camps were like when they finally got to those people.  

Did you ever register let alone belong to any military unit as I have and people I have met during and after my enlistment ended?   I have found that many of the  people who were never in the military(even the reserves) are the ones who don&#039;t believe in the evidence of history.  I saw movies of the bombs during there tests , on military soldiers, have you?  These soldiers didn&#039;t all die then but those that survied died years later horribly from cancer.  I also saw film of that as well while in the military.  Would you really think the government would show those pictures to us if they weren&#039;t real?  Why would they put a bad light on themselves that way if it wasn&#039;t real?

  I guess then the Bible is correct and the world as we know it is coming to an end.  Read the last chapter to see that much of what is said would happen has or is coming true.  I know many people don&#039;t believe in the Bible but it is interesting how things written there years ago are coming true or has been proven true.  Study it yourself.  I am not about to point out everything true(or false depending on your outlook) in the Bible you must do that for your self.  

Rergarding the Mormans.  How many of you have seen or even know of any the orignal writings existing even though these things are only a few hundred years old?  I have seen scrolls over a thousand years old but nothing orignal about the Mormans, interesting.  Maybe something exists, if so please present it here.  I studied with Mormans and not once did I ever hear of original writings exisiting.   I did read and hear that his brother said the religion wasn&#039;t real.  I think his story about having to return the tablets was just a bit too convient.  Everytime proof was required a story came out, not proof, at least as far as I can determine from my research.  If there is proof please present it here.  I know a ministers wife who is in the direct line of the founder of this &#039;religion&#039; who left the &#039;religion&#039;.  I wonder why she left it if it is such a logical belief system(her brother left the &#039;religion&#039; also).  Believe what you will but remember just saying I was given false information won&#039;t cut it at the final judgement so please read and study the Bible before saying it is based on false information.  That is one reason I studied with those Mormans to see if I could find logic in their religion.  As you can see I didn&#039;t find much that seemed logical about the founder or the &#039;religion&#039;.   I did get one thing I found useful regarding drinking tea, coffee or soda but then in recent years I have read there are antioxidents in tea and coffee that are good for you in moderation.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sakul do you really believe that there were no concentration camps or people who were oppressed and died in them?  Why did so many people have numbers on them who survived the war?   I can not believe anyone would say the Holicost(sp) was fake.  I guess then Ann Franks Diary is a fake as well.  Tell that to her father who survived the camps( I guess you can&#8217;t as I believe he is now dead as is my father who was there during ww 2).  Many of the witnesses died during the war and those who didn&#8217;t came out very skinny and undernurished.  Yet there are (were) lots of witnesses of what the camps were like when they finally got to those people.  </p>
<p>Did you ever register let alone belong to any military unit as I have and people I have met during and after my enlistment ended?   I have found that many of the  people who were never in the military(even the reserves) are the ones who don&#8217;t believe in the evidence of history.  I saw movies of the bombs during there tests , on military soldiers, have you?  These soldiers didn&#8217;t all die then but those that survied died years later horribly from cancer.  I also saw film of that as well while in the military.  Would you really think the government would show those pictures to us if they weren&#8217;t real?  Why would they put a bad light on themselves that way if it wasn&#8217;t real?</p>
<p>  I guess then the Bible is correct and the world as we know it is coming to an end.  Read the last chapter to see that much of what is said would happen has or is coming true.  I know many people don&#8217;t believe in the Bible but it is interesting how things written there years ago are coming true or has been proven true.  Study it yourself.  I am not about to point out everything true(or false depending on your outlook) in the Bible you must do that for your self.  </p>
<p>Rergarding the Mormans.  How many of you have seen or even know of any the orignal writings existing even though these things are only a few hundred years old?  I have seen scrolls over a thousand years old but nothing orignal about the Mormans, interesting.  Maybe something exists, if so please present it here.  I studied with Mormans and not once did I ever hear of original writings exisiting.   I did read and hear that his brother said the religion wasn&#8217;t real.  I think his story about having to return the tablets was just a bit too convient.  Everytime proof was required a story came out, not proof, at least as far as I can determine from my research.  If there is proof please present it here.  I know a ministers wife who is in the direct line of the founder of this &#8216;religion&#8217; who left the &#8216;religion&#8217;.  I wonder why she left it if it is such a logical belief system(her brother left the &#8216;religion&#8217; also).  Believe what you will but remember just saying I was given false information won&#8217;t cut it at the final judgement so please read and study the Bible before saying it is based on false information.  That is one reason I studied with those Mormans to see if I could find logic in their religion.  As you can see I didn&#8217;t find much that seemed logical about the founder or the &#8216;religion&#8217;.   I did get one thing I found useful regarding drinking tea, coffee or soda but then in recent years I have read there are antioxidents in tea and coffee that are good for you in moderation.</p>
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		<title>By: petet2112</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-5/#comment-478793</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reverse to the title &quot;Ten Famous Hoaxes&quot;. I love the one regarding Neil Armstrong being the first man to step on the moon (Apollo 11) on July 20, 1969 as many people thought that was a hoax and was filmed as a Hollywood gag. Neil Armstrong didn&#039;t say &quot;One small step for man, A giant leap for mankind&quot; for nothing. Its like those people who flat out refuse to believe that the Jewish Holocaust of WW II never took place. Well, if President Eisenhower were still alive today, ask him about it. He saw it first hand immediately after Germany surrendered.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a reverse to the title &#8220;Ten Famous Hoaxes&#8221;. I love the one regarding Neil Armstrong being the first man to step on the moon (Apollo 11) on July 20, 1969 as many people thought that was a hoax and was filmed as a Hollywood gag. Neil Armstrong didn&#8217;t say &#8220;One small step for man, A giant leap for mankind&#8221; for nothing. Its like those people who flat out refuse to believe that the Jewish Holocaust of WW II never took place. Well, if President Eisenhower were still alive today, ask him about it. He saw it first hand immediately after Germany surrendered.</p>
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		<title>By: Not a Mormon but Offended</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-5/#comment-478468</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Not a Mormon but Offended]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is INCREDIBLY OFFENSIVE to write that about someone&#039;s religion. If you wanted to bash the Jewish faith, or Christian faith, or Muslims, or Buddists, I am sure you could find inconsistencies and things you would consider silly or ridiculous there too, but you DONT GO THERE. It&#039;s someone&#039;s faith!

You are totally and completely OUT OF LINE.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is INCREDIBLY OFFENSIVE to write that about someone&#8217;s religion. If you wanted to bash the Jewish faith, or Christian faith, or Muslims, or Buddists, I am sure you could find inconsistencies and things you would consider silly or ridiculous there too, but you DONT GO THERE. It&#8217;s someone&#8217;s faith!</p>
<p>You are totally and completely OUT OF LINE.</p>
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		<title>By: A. Stuart Kaplan</title>
		<link>http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/comment-page-5/#comment-476601</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A. Stuart Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is baffling to see the Book of Mormon as # 1 on an anonymously authored list of top 10 most famous hoaxes (posted at http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/ since 2007), as if the sacred text of millions of religious believers was nothing more than a phony sideshow act.
And the Book of Abraham is something of which to be proud. As a non-Mormon reader, I loved the account that paralleled Genesis, but gave far more detail.  I then had a “eureka” moment when I realized that the account of creation it contained was almost identical to the one found on Sumerian tablets.  The authenticity of the Mormon account is therefore highly likely, as the ancient cuneiform texts of Sumer and Akkad were not discovered ‘til the mid-19th Century, and not well-deciphered ‘til the 20th.
This list’s cowardly author should step forward on this, but is likely too busy working on proving the Bible is a children’s fairytale.  Works of religion are best debated by learned and scholarly believers and non-believers alike, and disparagement has no place in the discussion.   A. Stuart Kaplan]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is baffling to see the Book of Mormon as # 1 on an anonymously authored list of top 10 most famous hoaxes (posted at <a href="http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/" rel="nofollow">http://listverse.com/2007/08/30/top-10-famous-hoaxes/</a> since 2007), as if the sacred text of millions of religious believers was nothing more than a phony sideshow act.<br />
And the Book of Abraham is something of which to be proud. As a non-Mormon reader, I loved the account that paralleled Genesis, but gave far more detail.  I then had a “eureka” moment when I realized that the account of creation it contained was almost identical to the one found on Sumerian tablets.  The authenticity of the Mormon account is therefore highly likely, as the ancient cuneiform texts of Sumer and Akkad were not discovered ‘til the mid-19th Century, and not well-deciphered ‘til the 20th.<br />
This list’s cowardly author should step forward on this, but is likely too busy working on proving the Bible is a children’s fairytale.  Works of religion are best debated by learned and scholarly believers and non-believers alike, and disparagement has no place in the discussion.   A. Stuart Kaplan</p>
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		<title>By: reychop</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reychop]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am but a mere Biologist, not a Physicist. But it is possible for the universe to enter into a state of chaos and order. Think of how stars are born and how they die. Gasses form together into a star and then destroy itself. Earth too has that kind of condition. 
 
It is believed that with the Global Warming, Earth is preparing itself into another ice age. The chaos brought will bring together order just like how the volcanic eruption provides a rich soil for plants to thrive on. Even nature itself favors chaos. The chaotic changes is the main driving force for Natural Selection. Without this unpredictable change, order would not come to be. 
 
While these are simply speculations, it shows that Big Bang Theory is plausible. Take note, plausible, not the end answer to all. Because digging through that question is beyond our capabilities as of the moment, we are left to speculate. But just because we don&#039;t know doesn&#039;t mean that mythical beings are responsible. Attributing it to gods is a huge logical leap, one that humans should not take in their quest for the truth. 
 
Because Big Bang is a Theory, it is already supported by substantive evidence, but not strong enough to declare it a definitive law. But the way I see it, Evolution has already been known to be a fact. So it&#039;s a step ahead than the fairy tale of the Religious Mythologies.  There&#039;s still a lot to answer for. But we shouldn&#039;t be too hasty. That&#039;s why we still reject the notion of gods because there is insufficient evidence for their existence. It&#039;s how the world works, that&#039;s how we uncover the truth. To do otherwise would return us to the Dark Ages. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am but a mere Biologist, not a Physicist. But it is possible for the universe to enter into a state of chaos and order. Think of how stars are born and how they die. Gasses form together into a star and then destroy itself. Earth too has that kind of condition.</p>
<p>It is believed that with the Global Warming, Earth is preparing itself into another ice age. The chaos brought will bring together order just like how the volcanic eruption provides a rich soil for plants to thrive on. Even nature itself favors chaos. The chaotic changes is the main driving force for Natural Selection. Without this unpredictable change, order would not come to be.</p>
<p>While these are simply speculations, it shows that Big Bang Theory is plausible. Take note, plausible, not the end answer to all. Because digging through that question is beyond our capabilities as of the moment, we are left to speculate. But just because we don&#8217;t know doesn&#8217;t mean that mythical beings are responsible. Attributing it to gods is a huge logical leap, one that humans should not take in their quest for the truth.</p>
<p>Because Big Bang is a Theory, it is already supported by substantive evidence, but not strong enough to declare it a definitive law. But the way I see it, Evolution has already been known to be a fact. So it&#8217;s a step ahead than the fairy tale of the Religious Mythologies.  There&#8217;s still a lot to answer for. But we shouldn&#8217;t be too hasty. That&#8217;s why we still reject the notion of gods because there is insufficient evidence for their existence. It&#8217;s how the world works, that&#8217;s how we uncover the truth. To do otherwise would return us to the Dark Ages. </p>
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		<title>By: pantodynamos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[jfrater: I have no dog in this fight, and I generally like your posts, but I do need find myself questioning how you can belittle the Mormon Church. I understand you&#039;re Catholic? You are aware that the Catholic Church is responsible for more death, pain and corruption through-out its history than any other  organization or group of people&#039;s in all of history? Food for thought. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jfrater: I have no dog in this fight, and I generally like your posts, but I do need find myself questioning how you can belittle the Mormon Church. I understand you&#8217;re Catholic? You are aware that the Catholic Church is responsible for more death, pain and corruption through-out its history than any other  organization or group of people&#8217;s in all of history? Food for thought. </p>
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		<title>By: Pyrotek40</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pyrotek40]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smith was a Yankee scum and a liar who married sisters that where 15 &amp; 16, an 11 year old also wives of other members whom he had watch the consummation of the marriage! He had 27 wives ranging from 11 to 52 years of age! He is was never told to go dig up tablets of gold and translate them! In the Book proof of the tablets comes from him showing the 8 witnesses, 4 Whitmer, 3 Smith (Joseph, Hyrum and Samuel) and 1 Page. His book reads like pulp fiction with paragraphs repeated and repeated within on chapter! If you read it you can tell this is a made up book trying to appear as ancient work! It&#039;s a made up religion in which he set himself up as a prophet, more like profit! And you sound like such a holy rolling Mormon typing F*ckers wow you must of had too much coffee cause the &quot;Book&quot; says if you think it say it you are sinning and you won&#039;t get to the 3rd heaven to be next to Jesus and the father! Which I&#039;m sure Smith IS NOT sitting beside them as I type this! Weak minded people make me puke!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Smith was a Yankee scum and a liar who married sisters that where 15 &amp; 16, an 11 year old also wives of other members whom he had watch the consummation of the marriage! He had 27 wives ranging from 11 to 52 years of age! He is was never told to go dig up tablets of gold and translate them! In the Book proof of the tablets comes from him showing the 8 witnesses, 4 Whitmer, 3 Smith (Joseph, Hyrum and Samuel) and 1 Page. His book reads like pulp fiction with paragraphs repeated and repeated within on chapter! If you read it you can tell this is a made up book trying to appear as ancient work! It&#8217;s a made up religion in which he set himself up as a prophet, more like profit! And you sound like such a holy rolling Mormon typing F*ckers wow you must of had too much coffee cause the &#8220;Book&#8221; says if you think it say it you are sinning and you won&#8217;t get to the 3rd heaven to be next to Jesus and the father! Which I&#8217;m sure Smith IS NOT sitting beside them as I type this! Weak minded people make me puke!!!</p>
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