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049: Richard Bushman Part 3 - Joseph Smith and the Translation of the Book of Mormon Pt. 1

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The Hat and the Stone

Do you think it's disingenuous to continue having the curtain and using some type of spectacles, and showing joseph staring at the plates, thinking earnestly, and then dictating? Do you think that tht's something we need to change? Maybe i definitely think we need to changed it. It's not because, ah, you know, it's a horrible mistake,. The guys who do those pictures are not trying to deceive anyone. That's what they think actually happens. So is it possible that somehow the mechanics were never really known, and so someone in the 18 fifties or 18 sixties, sort of just came up with this story?, he asks.

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