“Faulty memory bequeathed to the Lamanite children the wicked and abominable traditions of their fathers, which when repeated time and time again made it easy for wicked and ambitious rulers to lead them astray. We may imagine that with each telling, these unwritten memorials assumed greater and more evil proportions, and in this way, every passing generation of Lamanites inherited more and more which was but the invention of diseased and depraved hearts. Thus, again, their imperfect traditions delivered a treacherous blow to the Lamanites for they therein became the victims of their own degraded beliefs” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:159).