With a new year under the control of Revision Rusty M. Nailz we have a new Temple Endowment for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! What’s new? What’s not new?! Why did they make the changes?!?! We dive deep into the new endowment with comparisons from older versions to see what’s slipped through the cracks about the new Mormon ritual. After that we review a movie with another secret combination as its center, Angels and Demons, based on the Dan Brown novel. Then we wrap with happy news about the Bible possibly being banned in Utah public schools.
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Next on the block is the “Emotion” component of Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. This launches us into the next installment of Saints: The Standard of Truth, covering the visionary era of the early Mormon movement and the move from New York to Ohio. Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt are introduced, as are the Partridge family, including 7 and 11 year-old Emily and Eliza. The book casually introduces the subject of polygamy, presumably to smooth over the subject in the coming chapters when the practice becomes more controversial and widespread. We end the segment discussing Ezra Booth and his expose letters after he was excommunicated from the church for speaking out against Joseph Smith. The episode ends with some good news from Minnesota about transgender health care!
Show Notes:
6 Highly Effective Tactics Cult leaders Use to Build a Raving Audience: https://bettermarketing.pub/6-highly-effective-tactics-cult-leaders-use-to-build-a-raving-audience-ff3111c4bbf3
Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan
Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/
BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Books:
Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan
Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan
Saints links:
Ezra Booth letters
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ezra_Booth_letters
Jacob 2 “exception clause” links
https://oneclimbs.com/2017/01/05/a-proposed-reinterpretation-of-jacob-230/
https://bookofmormonism.com/2022/01/31/jacob-230-raising-up-seed-and-the-polygamy-question/
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/archive/publications/contradiction_between_jacob_and_dc_132
Happy news:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-health-care-now-protected-minnesota/story?id=97739240
Other Appearances:
Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph’s Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:
Come see us on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing a series titled Reading Joseph’s Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf
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This is kind of an unusual episode. Shannon’s still in recovery so Bryce is making a solo run for better or worse (definitely the latter). We run through the stories of some early African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their stories are remarkable, their struggles real, their histories vague but inspiring. We try to place their stories within the larger context of slavery in Utah and what life might have been like at the time. Thank you to Century of Black Mormons project at the University of Utah for creating a wonderful resource with biographies of these historical figures. After that, we go through the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans (mighty, mighty, ti-tans!) and discuss how this football movie isn’t really a football movie at all, but a movie about racism. Then we wrap with happy news about the recent SEC filing which charged the Mormon church with hiding assets and unfair investment practices.
Show Notes:
Century of Black Mormons
https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/welcome
Black Saints and the Priesthood
https://mormonr.org/qnas/BT5Sk/black_saints_and_the_priesthood_brigham_young_early_utah_era/research
Besty Brown Fluellen
John Priesly
Edward “Ned” Leggroan
Nancy Smith
Isaac Lewis Manning
Utah 1852 slave code
History of slave codes
More slave codes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes
The Sounds of Slavery by T. David Franklin; Featured public domain slave songs and hollers
https://archive.org/details/TDavidFranklinTheSoundsofSlavery/02__Levee_Holler.mp3
MOGP:
Remember the Titans
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210945/
Happy news:
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35
Other Appearances:
Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph’s Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:
Come see us on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing a series titled Reading Joseph’s Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf
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CULTS! Well, one specifically. We start this episode with a brief rundown of Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. We hone in on the element of “Information” control within the larger BITE model to discuss how important controlling information is to the longevity of any cult. That leads us into our longer segment where we finally begin our review of Saints: The Standard of Truth, the new authoritative history book of early Mormonism published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Part 1 discusses the early history of the Joseph Smith family, the supernatural visitations, the acquisition of the Gold Plates, and the authorship process of the Book of Mormon. Does this book cross the threshold of being New Mormon History, or is it simply a more sophisticated treatment of the same Old Mormon History? Yes, this segment is long, but mining mountains for minute morsels is a tedious task. We wrap with some happy news about repurposing defunct oil wells for green energy.
Show Notes:
Steven Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan
Robert Jay Lifton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton
Freedom of Mind Resource Center: https://freedomofmind.com/
BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Books:
Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults, by Steven Hassan
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs, by Steven Hassan
Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, by Steven Hassan
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steven Hassan
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China by Robert Jay Lifton
Saints links:
https://archive.org/details/originriseprogre00tuck/page/n39/mode/2up?q=beer
http://www.fullerconsideration.com/sources.php?cat=GP-T26
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2002/the-1826-trial-of-joseph-smith
http://www.mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm#harris
https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/37b7b91c-4148-45d6-8f32-df4acf06fe99/0/7
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225502?seq=12
https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe/page/270/mode/2up?q=anthon
https://archive.org/details/LucysBook/page/n439/mode/2up
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/harrisinterviewtiffanysmonthly.htm
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1376&context=jbms
Happy news: Researchers successfully turn abandoned oil well into giant geothermal battery https://skymagzines.com/researchers-successfully-turn-abandoned-oil-well-into-giant-geothermal-battery/
Other Appearances:
Come see us on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing a series titled Reading Joseph’s Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf
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