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Aug. 22, 2009 In reality, the Book of Mormon is not much more preposterous than the Bible itself, but the Bible has been around for so many centuries and accepted by so many countries that we’ve been lulled into thinking that Judaism and Christianity present admissible, respectable bodies of doctrine, whereas the Book of Mormon, with barely a century of existence primarily in the single desert state of Utah, commands no such respect. Even other Christians snicker at Mormonism. And atheists, who snicker at Christianity, snicker even harder when it comes to Mormonism. Whenever someone says he is a Mormon, I say to myself, “Oh, no! Please, oh please, spare me the sermon!” In the late 1980’s, John Yettaw became a Mormon, but he had Mormonism written all over him since the day he was born. Born in 1955 in Detroit to an alcoholic, schizophrenic mother, he was abandoned by his father when he was 2, when one of his siblings had already committed suicide in a mental institution. He was taken in by a volunteer who molested him afterwards. He has been married four times, and was once involved in a fight when he spat on a woman. He did get bachelor’s degrees, but was expelled from graduate school because of an altercation with a professor. Yettaw has visions, he claims, and acts in accordance with them apparently. One of his wives says that he is alcoholic and bipolar. By now, even you will realize that Yettaw is easily crazy enough to qualify as a Latter Day Saint. He has all the credentials necessary to belong to anything from the Rosicrucians to the Theosophists, or to practice anything from voodoo to shamanism. In 2008, Yettaw flew to Thailand , where he took an interest in Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, detained under house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar, that is, Rangoon, Burma. Traveling to Yangon, he visited her by swimming across a lake and climbing over a fence. He felt that God had instructed him to put himself in communication with her, and he presented her with a copy of the Book of Mormon, along with five other books, presumably similar junk. He prayed with her. In April 2009, leaving his children unattended in Missouri, Yettaw flew back to Thailand and obtained another Burmese visa. Returning to Yangon, he again swam across the lake, entering Suu Kyi’s property illegally and prevailing upon her to let him stay there two days, despite the fact that unauthorized overnight stays are illegal in Burma. This time he was apprehended, imprisoned and put on trial. Poor Suu Kyi, who was on the point of completing her house arrest, has been given 18 more months for harboring Yettaw in her house, though she reasoned at the trial that she tried to get him to leave, relenting only when he claimed that he had cramps. He does have health problems, including asthma and diabetes, not to mention alcoholism and bipolar disorder, if those allegations are true. Myanmar sentenced Yettaw to seven years’ imprisonment, including five of hard labor. Involving himself in the case for some unknown reason, US Senator Jim Webb, of Virginia, flew to Burma and negotiated Yettaw’s release on August 16, flying back to the US with Yettaw in his company. Yettaw says he does not regret causing the prolongation of Suu Kyi’s house arrest. It’s too bad that Webb just didn’t leave Yettaw in Burma to do his time. I can’t imagine a fitter punishment for this fool! ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Visit my website here. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! 
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