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\u00a0 \u00a0 My Deseret News column for this week has appeared, and, thus far, the critics are far from positively impressed. \u00a0 I\u2019m shocked \u2014 shocked \u2014 to find that grumbling is going on there! \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865619619\/How-the-Book-of-Mormon-differs-from-19th-century-literature.html \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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