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Like the Skeptics Annotated Book of Mormon with less sass and more citations.

Many things have been claimed about the Book of Mormon: that it is divine scripture, a true history of three separate migrations of people from the Old World to the Americas, a guide to living happily, the most correct book on Earth, and so on. The goal of the Freethinker's Book of Mormon is to dispassionately examine these claims from a freethinking point of view.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford, Clifford's Credo
Be unafraid of new ideas for they are the stepping stones to progress. But you will respect, of course, the opinions of others [but be unafraid to dissent if you are informed.]… Now I mention the freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts and expressions must meet competition in the marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth must emerge triumphant. Only error needs to fear freedom of expression. Seek truth in all fields, and in that searching you’re going to need at least three virtues: courage, zest, and modesty. The ancients put that thought in [the] form of [a] prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all the truth—O God of truth, deliver us.”
— Hugh B. Brown, Man and What He May Become, 29 March 1958

If the Freethinker's Book of Mormon reaches its goals, freethinking readers can gain an understanding of the controversies surrounding the Book of Mormon informing their conclusions regarding the text, and Mormon readers can better learn how freethinkers perceive their scripture.

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