The biggest problem with the Book of Mormon is that it exists, says Sen. Bob Bennett.

"You can't dismiss it, because it exists," he said. "That means that somebody wrote it."

The Republican senator from Utah is the author of "Leap of Faith," which was recently released by Deseret Book. It examines the origins of the Book of Mormon and confronts accusations by detractors that the text was forged while also encouraging members to analyze and better found their own understanding of it.

Bennett didn't like the way the Book of Mormon was represented in media coverage leading up to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He began penning letters to the editor of newspapers and the project soon "took hold" of him, and he expanded them into a book in the years afterward.

"The tenor of the articles that kind of started me on this was that no one of any intelligence could believe the incredibly outlandish story about angels and gold plates, that any person with the slightest bit of education would reject this out of hand," he said. "And of course, that is not true."

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