Jo the con artist

In class we have been reading the Book of Mormon. This week we were made to read the book of Abraham which was translated once again by Joseph Smith. When reading through the text it increasingly becomes very related to the text of the Book of Nephi. A correlation that I made while reading through the book of Abraham was that the old Egyptian text happened to sound remarkably similar to that of the original Book of Mormon although those text came from tablets that no one has ever seen. It seems that Joseph Smith was a con artist but was a great writer. In his original translations of the Book of Mormon it seems as if he tried to give Americans an excuse for the genocide of Native Americans. In the Book of Abraham it seemed as if he were writing it to give an excuse for why slavery should be okay. Joseph Smith translated ancient works and lied in the process to profit his own lifestyle.