I feel affronted by depictions of Jesus Christ as a six-foot-one, fair-skinned, auburn-haired, male emerging, coiffured and scented, from a Parisian Salon.  Historical facts and common-sense fly in the face of this caricature.

In 2001 British forensic facial reconstruction expert Richard Neave employed a first century Israeli skull, clay modeling, and understood physical traits to construct a model of a Jewish men of Jesus’s era.

From the best available evidence, the face of an average Jewish man of Jesus Christ’s era did not resemble Matthew McConaughey. 

From the best available evidence, the face of an average Jewish man of Jesus Christ’s era may resembled Kash Patel.

Donald Trump, September 10, posted, “In honor of (Conservative Activist) Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.”

After evangelical Christian and Rightwing Firebrand Vance Boelter executed Minnesota House Speaker Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, June 14, the President offered no comparable sentiment nor gesture.

Why?

For millennia before the Book of Mormon’s father Lehigh set sail westward, wheels were commonplace throughout the Near, Middle, and Far East.

It seems to me that, soon after making landfall and dragging sea chests and portmanteaus up some alien strand, one of the castaways would exclaim, “We need wheelbarrows.  We need wagons.  We need wheels!”  And set to work crafting the requisite parts!

Curiously, over the past five centuries no wheel or evidence of a wheel predating Columbus—not a broken rim, splintered spoke, pictograph—has been found in the Western Hemisphere.

I have to wonder.

As Donald, on the pretext of quelling homicide rates, imposed or threatened martial law against blue-state cities, Charles Kirk was murdered in the heart of, perhaps, America’s most Scarlett Bastion.

Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates.  I do not know the Book’s dimensions.  If I have the math correct, a 6x8x2 inch gold ingot (96 cubic inches) would tip the scale north of 60 pounds! 

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In human history who, besides Joseph Smith Jr., has seen and spoken with God?

Did Joseph describe God?  How tall is He; His eyes, nose, hair?  Does He have a beard?  What kind of clothes does He wear?

The less a leader does and says
The happier his people,
The more a leader struts and brags
The sorrier his people.
Often what appears to be unhappiness is happiness
And what appears to be happiness is unhappiness.
Who can see what leads to what
When happiness appears and yet is not,
When what should be is nothing but a mask
Disguising what should not be? Who can but ask
An end to such a stupid plot!
Therefore a sound man shall so square the circle
And circle the square as not to injure, not to impede:
The glow of his life shall not daze,
It shall lead.

  The Way of Life According to Lao Tsu
  Translated by Witter Bynner

(Today, every American should read and seriously consider this!)

A realm is governed by ordinary acts,
A battle is governed by extraordinary acts;
The world is governed by no acts at all.
How do I know?
This is how I know.
Act after act prohibits
Everything but poverty,
Weapon after weapon conquers
Everything but chaos,
Business after business provides
A craze of waste,
Law after law breeds
A multitude of thieves.
Therefore a sensible man says:
If I keep from meddling with people, they take care of
                   themselves,
If I keep from commanding people, they behave
                  themselves,
If I keep from preaching at people, they improve
                  themselves,
If I keep from imposing on people, they become
                  themselves.

  The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
  Translated by Witter Bynner

And his lust for unlimited power, Donald Trump turns republican precepts of limited government and states’ rights on their head!