Increasingly, religion is having to prove itself relevant in what some have called a secular age. Many seek proof of relevancy through empirical evidence. Since faith and spiritually based experience are foreign to a secular mindset, they are frequently dismissed. As a new religion that grew up in full public view less than 200 years ago, Mormonism and its miraculous origins are, for some, a particularly easy target.
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