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Turtle Submarine
1875 artist's depiction
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As I was slogging through the Book of Mormon for the article I wrote last week, I kept thinking of The Emperor’s New Clothes.That story was first published in Denmark in 1837, so it’s unlikely that Hans Christian Anderson had the Book of Mormon in mind specifically. But no doubt he’d met his fair share of charlatans and was writing about all of them.
When you read something hard to understand, there is a tendency to assume that you’re not smart enough, that the writer must know things you don’t. And if the writing contains a lot of “thee, thou, thine” language, it must be old, right?
