{"id":36568,"date":"2016-09-10T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36568"},"modified":"2016-09-10T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:25:27","slug":"this-doesnt-exactly-support-the-heartland-model-of-book-of-mormon-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/this-doesnt-exactly-support-the-heartland-model-of-book-of-mormon-geography.html","title":{"rendered":"This doesn&#8217;t exactly support the &#8220;Heartland Model&#8221; of Book of Mormon geography."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36569\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/768px-Brigham_Young_Monument.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36569\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36569\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/768px-Brigham_Young_Monument-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dallin's Brigham\" width=\"597\" height=\"796\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyrus Dallin\u2019s 1897 statue of Brigham Young, near Temple Square in Salt Lake City<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I don\u2019t much care where the Book of Mormon story took place. \u00a0That\u2019s not to say that the question isn\u2019t interesting to me, but, in my judgment, a definitive answer to it is essential neither to my faith nor to anybody\u2019s salvation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much more significant, it seems to me, is the proposition <em>that<\/em>\u00a0the Book of Mormon took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some people disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I receive a fair amount of anonymous or pseudonymous hate mail. \u00a0On most days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a year or two, a lot of it \u2014 sometimes as many 5-8 emails daily \u2014 came\u00a0from someone who was plainly convinced that \u201cknowing\u201d that the Book of Mormon occurred within the boundaries of today\u2019s United States (and, more specifically, around New York State, the Mississippi River Valley, and the Great Lakes) ranks as one of the most important requirements for salvation. \u00a0In leaning strongly toward a Mesoamerican setting for the Book of Mormon, he told me over and over and over again \u2014 in various usually quite insulting ways \u2014 I\u2019ve \u201cthrown the prophets under the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, here\u2019s some evidence that at least one of those prophets apparently climbed under the bus himself:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zanderthelamanite.com\/1\/post\/2016\/09\/brigham-young-and-book-of-mormon-geography.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/zanderthelamanite.com\/1\/post\/2016\/09\/brigham-young-and-book-of-mormon-geography.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In the end, I don\u2019t much care where the Book of Mormon story took place. \u00a0That\u2019s not to say that the question isn\u2019t interesting to me, but, in my judgment, a definitive answer to it is essential neither to my faith nor to anybody\u2019s salvation. \u00a0 Much more significant, it seems to me, [&hellip;]<\/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-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This doesn&#039;t exactly support the &quot;Heartland Model&quot; 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