The Name of the Forgery

I was looking online today to get an update on the City Creek Center progress. While doing so I came across a web page about the project done by the Salamander Society. It was no big surprise that the page simply insulted the church a lot and made sacrilegious comments.

I found it interesting that this apparent anti-mormon group calls itself "the Salamander Society" This is clearly a reference to the Salamander letter from the 1980s. At the time it was a huge controversy - a document that seemed to put much of the LDS church's origins in doubt. Then Mark Hoffman, the letter's forger, murdered several people with bombs and accidentally hurt himself with one. Pretty soon it was discovered that he had done a ton of forgeries of early LDS documents in an effort to harm the LDS church and appear to prove it false. One of these documents was the salamander letter.

So I found it funny that an anti mormon group would use the name of this forgery to name itself. It is basically saying "we are a lie, we are trying to prove the church wrong by lying about it". The anti mormon group's name implies that what they are teaching is false. How ironic. How well suited.