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TIL in 2013, Jeremy Runnells, a 6th generation Mormon, compiled a list of concerns about Joseph Smith’s 34 wives (as young as 14), anachronisms and 1769 KJV errors in the Book of Mormon and various other issues. After initially vowing to respond to the letter, the Church itself never responded.

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