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\u00a0 \u00a0 On 8 August 2014, Robert F. Smith delivered an interesting paper at the annual FairMormon conference. \u00a0The text is available online, and it makes for good reading in connection with the approaching focus of the adult Sunday school curriculum on the Book of Mormon: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.fairmormon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PREPOSTEROUS-BOOK-OF-MORMON.pdf \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \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-29399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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