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Pavitra comments on Am I obligated to reread the Book of Mormon? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Pavitra 29 July 2011 09:14:51PM 2 points [-]

The Book of Mormon looks much less like an accurate document from Mesoamerica than it does like something someone from Joseph Smith's period with very limited familiarity with what was known about the region at the time and lots of biblical influences might imagine an accurate document from Mesoamerica would look like.

Well said.