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| | #REDIRECT [[Question: Did Joseph Smith claim to have walked on water?]] |
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| Critics claim that Joseph attempted to prove he was a prophet by walking on water; he sought to do so by hiding planks of wood under the water's surface.
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| The story about Joseph walking on water is recognized even by the Church's antagonists as a fake. It never happened. Fawn Brodie included it in her biography of the Prophet and wrote: "Baseless though this story may be, it is none the less symbolic."{{ref|brodie.1}} So, this story is baseless, worthless, without truth. But it fit well with what Brodie thought about the prophet, and so she passed it on.
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| The application of this folk tale to Joseph is one example of a broader pattern of using such a tale to discredit unpopular religious claims:
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| * {{JMH1|author=Stanley J. Thayne|article=Walking on Water: Nineteenth Century Prophets and a Legend of Religious Imposture|vol=36|num=2|date=Spring 2010|start=160}}
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| #{{note|brodie.84}} {{CriticalWork:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=84}} | |
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