My sister in law was given serious $#@! about tithing, but that's a different story. This is still not my point.
I'm not speaking of secrets of the priesthood, but basic history and facts that are unappealing. It would be like me trying to cover up or make the Spanish Inquisition look less bad.
Don't rewrite, don't obscure, hit the past head on.
Because that whole origin narrative has both been cleaned up and given a stock answer when people question how no one saw the plates and when questioned and asked to recite it again word for word, Joseph Smith weaseled out of it with another excuse on how...meh...I don't care what you believe or why. This is unproductive as Mormons are incapable of exegesis without hurt feelings or stock response and I don't want to hurt your wife's feelings.How is it shoved to the back of the bus?
It isn't prerequisite knowledge I am speaking of. The story of the plates is not like learning an algorithm. It's just something that people poke holes in so it's shoved to the back of the bus until such time as people are already hooked and ready to roll.
I don't like that.
I'll exit the thread.