The Plan of Salvation, Plan of Happiness, MORMON HEAVEN! We take a look at the doctrine and teachings compared to the text of Doctrine & Covenants 76. This revelation was given in the early years of Joseph Smith’s religious movement and the theology evolved significantly over time. Rusty’s heaven looks a bit different. After that we chat about Noah, a unique take on the Biblical flood story. We wrap with talking about a superhero compendium book!
Happy News: https://www.them.us/story/the-dc-book-of-pride-jadzia-axelrod-interview
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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Behavior control from Steven Hassan’s BITE model of cult mind control. We discuss how Mormonism controls our behavior today and historically. That leads us into our next installment of Saints: The Standard of Truth review. The book covers 1832-1836 from the tarring and feathering of Joseph Smith to the Kirtland Temple Dedication ceremony. Then we wrap with some happy news about organizations fighting against book bans in schools and public libraries!
Show Notes:
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/
What to Know About the Psychology of Cults: https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/what-to-know-about-the-psychology-of-cults/
Happy News:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement
Mormon, Magic and Psychedelic Symposium in SLC 5/20/2023!!!
Other Appearances:
Mormons on Mushrooms: https://www.mormonsonmushrooms.com/podcast/episode/7dc1c6bf/roughly-stoned-bryce-blankenagel-part-1-naked-mormonism-the-glass-box
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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EXMO LEX WahOOOOO!!! We finally find a proper excuse to invite Exmo Lex onto the show to discuss ExMormon tiktok and social media. She shares a bit of her story and experiences online while discussing the future of Mormon-related social media. After that we chat about a whole bunch of media in aggregate for Media of Great Price segment. We wrap the show with some happy news about innovation in the space of battery-density and how it bodes well for slowing climate change.
Happy News:
Mormon, Magic and Psychedelic Symposium in SLC 5/20/2023!!!
Other Appearances:
Mormons on Mushrooms: https://www.mormonsonmushrooms.com/podcast/episode/7dc1c6bf/roughly-stoned-bryce-blankenagel-part-1-naked-mormonism-the-glass-box
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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Yes, it’s that time of year again. We discuss General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in granular detail. Every single talk, every slur, every logical fallacy, all contained herewith. Enjoy! If you can, that is.
Other Appearances:
Mormons on Mushrooms: https://www.mormonsonmushrooms.com/podcast/episode/7dc1c6bf/roughly-stoned-bryce-blankenagel-part-1-naked-mormonism-the-glass-box
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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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.
https://www.davis.k12.ut.us/academics/library/library
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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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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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Who even is Lavina Fielding Anderson?! In this classic deep dive we examine the life of Lavina Fielding Anderson and her contributions to the Mormon academic field. Her story serves as a case study of how far individuals can pressure the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the inside before the institution’s immune system responds. She’s a powerhouse of a scholar, a pioneer in feminist Mormon studies, and an advocate for those who’ve survived ecclesiastical abuse. The Mormon Alliance was the organization Lavina formed with Janice Allred to collect and publish survivor’s stories and advocate on their behalf. Both suffered gruelling and abusive disciplinary processes for their advocacy attempting to reform Mormon practices and policies. History repeats itself and the timeline of Protect LDS Children and Sam Young was telegraphed by the experiences of Anderson, Allred, and the Mormon Alliance. We finish the episode with a review of Erin Brockovich and a happy environmental news item from Liverpool.
Correction: At about an hour and a half in, Shannon referenced Victor Frankl when she meant Elie Wiesel.
Show Notes:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228305?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/130.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20120215064851/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/092-65-79.pdf
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/spring-1993/
https://web.archive.org/web/20080123061329/http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/casereports.htm
https://mormon-alliance.org/SiteMap.htm
https://mormon-alliance.org/definitions.htm
MOGP: Erin Brockovich: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt
Hinkley Groundwater Contamination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contamination
Erin Brockovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich
Happy news:
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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It’s finally time for our long-awaited deep dive into New Mormon History. Put simply, NMH was a movement within the history department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to confront controversial history and turn away from the apologetic and polemical Old Mormon History. The leading figure, Leonard Arrington, was the right person for the job. But, he didn’t have the business chops to fight forces much larger than him in the form of Mark E. Petersen, Ezra Taft Benson, and Boyd K. Packer. The main segment is long as we chronicle the rise, fall, and resurrection of the New Mormon History movement and how the Joseph Smith Papers Project, as well as Saints: The Standard of Truth, are both the results of this movement pushing the church for academic legitimacy. In retrospect, Arrington is vindicated as an intellectual fighting for intellectual integrity while Packer spins in his grave. Then we discuss Finding Forrester as another example of the never-ending fight for academic honesty. We wrap with happy news of an invention set to tackle microplastics in our oceans.
New Mormon History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mormon_history#CITEREFQuinn1992
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45228326?seq=19#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=mormonhistory
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/fall-1983/
https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/4836228f-48c3-447f-bcb9-9c2a35496898/0/56
https://www.librarything.com/work/7542838
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1724&context=byusq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Morgan
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V09N01_36.pdf
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2055&context=byusq
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V16N03_11.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie
https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/034-32-37.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_R._Dyer
http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no115.htm
Extra thanks to Brian Buchanan for helping piece together the main segment. Find him here: https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/
https://sunstone.org/sunstone-history-podcast/
MOGP: Finding Forrester https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk
Where it is streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/finding-forrester
Happy news: Princeton engineers developed new way to remove microplastics from water: https://scitechdaily.com/99-efficiency-princeton-engineers-have-developed-a-new-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-water/
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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Education is a battleground for the hearts and minds of the future. The Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1980, but the history of education in Mormonism is far more complex. We do a deep dive into how the CES started and the sordid pasts of the various educational institutions attached to the Church at some point. There’s also a tangential deep dive into seminary and the legal sphere of “released time” classes carving out exemptions where religion can be taught in public schools. Then we discuss the modern battlefield of public education by reviewing the 2012 documentary, The Revisionaries, focused on public school text books and the fight at the Texas Board of Education. We round out with a quick overview of the best news of our lifetime, recommendations by the Jan 6th Committee to criminally indict the former POTUS for the violent insurrection at the federal capitol building in January 2021.
CES history links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Educational_System#cite_ref-E2014_3-2
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2184&context=etd&httpsredir=1&referer=
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-education/about/ces-administration?lang=eng
https://www.mormonwiki.com/Church_Educational_System
https://mormonfaq.com/mormon-culture/about-education
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-founding-of-the-l-d-s-institutes-of-religion/
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._Kingsbury#cite_note-10
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8306/aaup-1915-declaration-of-principles
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/University%20of%20Utah%20-%20December%201915.pdf
http://ldspioneerarchitecture.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/EoM/id/5597
https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/435/everson-v-board-of-education
CES Purges:
https://www.deseret.com/1995/3/30/19167147/feminist-club-at-byu-loses-its-voice-for-now
https://universe.byu.edu/1996/03/14/voice-leader-chats/
https://universe.byu.edu/2001/06/01/feminist-voice-active-at-byu/
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/11/28/byu-i-instructors-fired-failing/
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires
MOGP: Revisionaries (2012): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091398/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
FInd where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-revisionaries
Happy news: Jan 6th committee filed report https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144489935/january-6-committee-full-report-release
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=23515535-jan-6-select-committee-final-r
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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Guess what! This is the end of our deep dive into The Millennial Messiah, by Bruce R McConkie! It’s party time! We go over the last 4 chapters and then discuss our conclusion. Then, we will watch the 2010 movie Legion, with a mormon lens because it works WAY too well with that. Then we’ll finish off the episode with some good news about a BYU protest!
MOGP: Legion (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
FInd where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/legion
Happy News:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/stanford-marching-band-mocks-byu-gay-wedding-skit-football-game/
Other Appearances:
LIVE SHOW! Mon, Dec 26, 2022 — We will talk about media. All things media — books, movies, music, etc.
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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What even is the Law of Consecration?! Well it’s a covenant that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make during the temple endowment ceremony, but what actually is it? We go through a deep dive of the Law of Consecration, discuss a bit of its history, and pontificate about it’s impact and possible future use in Mormon culture today. After that we review Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper, a wonderful dystopian fantasy novel with some hard-hitting social commentary we interpret through a Mormon lens. We round out the episode by congratulating LeVar Burton receiving long-deserved recognition. Patrons: we debrief/deconstruct the recent debate between Bryce and a certain litigious individual.
Show Notes:
All Things are the Lord’s: The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants by Steven Harper
List of codenames in D&C
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_code_names_in_the_Doctrine_and_Covenants
Thou Art the Man Newel K. Whitney in Ohio by Mark Staker
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/thou-art-the-man-newel-k-whitney-in-ohio/#footnote-206
MOGP:
Happy News:
Other Appearances:
LIVE SHOW! Mon, Dec 26, 2022 — We will talk about media. All things media — books, movies, music, etc.
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Our long-awaited deep-dive deconstruction of Adam-God Doctrine, or theory, depending on who you ask. What is it? Who taught it? Why is it controversial? How is it treated by the corporate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today? ‘As we are, god once was, as god is we may someday become’ is a tried-and-true Mormon doctrine and the Adam-Eve-Gods Doctrine fits perfectly within this logical loop. As the title of the doctrine alludes to, Heavenly Father took the form of Adam with one of his wives, Heavenly Mother Eve, to create and populate the earth, after which he went to Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Missouri, where he ascended back to godhood to continue his charge from Elohim to create worlds without end. Then we dive into the nearly-final segment of Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah. McCranky loves the idea of fire burning the sinners and his charged language justifies the physical suffering and burning of anybody who isn’t Mormon or living its dictates. Further, when Jesus returns to reign in the millennium he will rule with an iron rod; the future dystopian Mormon theocracy is a dangerous and unforgiving land. How all these teachings pervade Mormon culture to this day can be seen by Mormons periodically carrying out the will of gods by causing the suffering and death of sinners and those who oppose the kingdom of God. Mormonism creates dangerous men, yet the church never suffers the repurcussions. We round out the episode with some happy news about cannabis legislation heading to President Biden’s desk.
Show Notes:
FairLatterDaySaints Adam-God theory
Brigham Young’s Teachings on Adam by Matthew B. Brown (2009)
JS On the Plurality of Gods
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/sermons_talks_interviews/smithpluralityofgodssermon.htm
JS King Follett Discourse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King_Follett_Discourse
The Evening and the Morning Star May 1834 article about Adam
https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/5884
The Position of Adam in Latter-day Scripture and Theology by Rodney Turner (1952)
Council of Fifty Minutes
Nauvoo Expositor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Expositor
The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by John W. Gunnison (1852)
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbc0001/2019/2019gen35226/2019gen35226.pdf
Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge (1877)
http://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/womenofmormondom00tullrich/womenofmormondom00tullrich.pdf
Brigham Young first public speech on Adam-God Doctrine April 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/8
Celestial Marriage by Orson Pratt Oct 1852 General Conference
https://journalofdiscourses.com/1/9
Our Own Liahona by Spencer W. Kimball (1978 denunciation of Adam-God Doctrine)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/11/our-own-liahona?lang=eng
Quotes on Adam-God Doctrine from various church leaders
http://www.mormonthink.com/QUOTES/adamgod.htm
Adam-God resource repository
The Adam-God Doctrine by David John Buerger (Spring 1982)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45225052?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
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History comes to life! Today we interview Mark Elwood, the creator of the graphic novel series The Glass Looker. These novels seek to illustrate Joseph Smith’s magic and treasure digging in beautiful and colorful relief. The book just dropped so grab yourself a copy! After that we continue talking fictionalized history with the movie Ford v Ferrari and we wrap the show with some happy news about republicans losing a book ban fight.
Show Notes:
The Glass Looker https://theglasslooker.com/
MOGP: Ford v Ferrari: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Happy News: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/republican-book-banning-attempt-defeated-community-stands-lgbtq-people/
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It’s time for the next installment of The Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie! Before that, we talk about Zion. What was it, what did/does it mean to various faith traditions, and what’s the Mormon slant of Zion? McCranky spends this entire episode discussing how incredibly awesome the future Mormon theocracy, Zion, the New Jerusalem, built upon the American continent, is going to be! We wrap up with some happy news from Salt Lake City attempting to mitigate homelessness in Zion.
Show Notes:
Repository of LDS Zion resources
https://www.margiesmessages.com/zionnew.html
Bruce R. McConkie Come: Let Israel Build Zion
Spencer W. Kimball Becoming the Pure in Heart
Harold B. Lee Strengthen the Stakes of Zion
David A. Bednar Put On Thy Strength, O Zion
David J. Larsen Enoch and the City of Zion; Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?
Mormonwiki: City of Enoch
https://www.mormonwiki.com/City_of_Enoch
EoM: Zion
https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Zion
Mormonwiki: Zion
https://www.mormonwiki.com/Zion
MOGP:
Steel Meets Steel — 10 Years of Glory, by Hammerfall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiVsLtR7sKs
Ethnic Cleansing: https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/ethnic-cleansing
Armageddon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon
Tel Megiddo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo
Valley of Jezreel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley
Gog and Magog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
Henry V, Act IV, scene i, William Shakespeare: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.4.1.html
Hymn Before Action 1890, Rudyard Kipling: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_action.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_Before_Action
Happy News:
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Mormon Book Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS35GXy3XRY
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It’s that time again! Every 6 months we review every talk given over the pulpit in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This Mormon Con sees the best and brightest in Mormon hierarchy speaking in 10-30 minute segments, accompanied by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. In total, we review all 10 hours of talks “to see what slipped through the cracks”!
Other Appearances:
We both appeared on Jimmy Snow first ever Exmormon General Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXZyjyI1EQ
Bryce was on The Scathing Atheist 503: Dead End Job Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJqethHMMo
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What does Joseph Smith’s book say about Joseph Smith’s church? We take a look into the Book of Mormon to see what it has to say about the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The BoM has a lot to say about organized, wealthy religion so how does a religion based on it accumulate so much wealth into its organization? After that we discuss the SMBC book Religion; Ruining Everything since 4004 B.C. and discuss a recent speech by Biden about abortion health care.
MOGP:
Religion: Ruining Everything Since 4004 B.C. A collection of religious themed comics by, Zach Weinersmith. (SMBC): https://hivemill.com/products/religion-ruining-everything
The Holy Bible: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness: https://hivemill.com/collections/smbc/products/pocket-bible
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Girl’s Camp! We talk about the history of how it came to be, the experiences of many folks who attended, and discuss the evolution of the program since its inception. What happens there? Who gets (has) to attend? Why don’t young women get to do the same kind of stuff Scouts do? Tune in and all answers shall be revealed! After that we review the most recent Tarzan movie and wrap the show with a new paper proposed as forthcoming EU legislation to reduce slave labor.
Show links:
History of LDS Youth Programs: https://juvenileinstructor.org/history-of-lds-youth-programs/
Changes made in 1993: https://www.thechurchnews.com/1993/2/20/23258666/new-young-women-camp-manual-written-for-today
Young Women of Zion: An Organizational History: https://rsc.byu.edu/firm-foundation/young-women-zion-organizational-history
Young Women Organization Timeline: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/training/library/young-women-organization/young-women-organization-timeline
A Century and Counting: How Girl’s Camp Has (and Hasn’t) changed Since 1912: https://utahvalley360.com/2016/07/15/century-counting-girls-camp-changed-since-1912/
Changes made in 2018: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/changes-to-young-women-camp-detailed-in-new-guide?lang=eng
Camp Dress codes: https://www.the-exponent.com/oh-those-girls-camp-dress-codes/
Camp (1972 article in New era) https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1972/05/camp?lang=eng
True Stories of Girl’s Camp: https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/05/23/true-stories-of-girls-camp/
MOGP:
The Legend of Tarzan: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918940/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1
King Leopold II of Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
Force Publique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Publique
Congo Free State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State
George Washington Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams
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What a fun grouping of topics! We do a relatively long deep-dive into the history of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has dealt with organic evolution and how the stance has changed over time. Of course, the Book of Mormon is predicated on eugenics, as is the history of Utah, so we also include this more controversial subject as it is related. Then we dive into Bruce R. McConkie’s Millennial Messiah where he continues to harp on his favorite topic, the end times. Turns out the book title is very revealing of the subject matter. We wrap the episode with a new press release from the White House about government-funded research.
Show links:
Improvement Era article (Official publication on organic evolution) https://archive.org/details/improvementera28011unse/page/1088/mode/2up
Organic Evolution (current Church official) https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/organic-evolution?lang=eng&fbclid=IwAR2JSViKt8X5b58lHFTGwP223jzjn9pm5Vi9Y1j2kz94QC8bjCHNrhuPpMk
Pew Research interview with Russel M. Nelson https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2007/05/16/in-focus-mormonism-in-modern-america/
Ben Spackman analysis of Official Church essay https://benspackman.com/2022/06/an-annotated-version-of-the-new-church-history-evolution-topic/?fbclid=IwAR2AhOens_H9jWsIZVzw9YZCro0syh7TsHuZ-G4C44BX9p46z2lMDwRs_CY
How Darwin’s Book holds up 150 years later https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-darwins-descent-man-holds-150-years-after-publication-180977091/
Descent of Man http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F937.1&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
Orson Pratt’s statement possibly favorable to theological evolution https://bycommonconsent.com/2015/04/30/orson-pratt-and-god-emergence-as-fundamental-mormonism/
Man; His Origin and Destiny by Joseph Fielding Smith http://www.sainesburyproject.com/mormonstuff/Man%20His%20Origin%20and%20Destiny.pdf
“BYU Packet” https://biology.byu.edu/00000172-29e6-d079-ab7e-69efe5890000/byu-evolution-packet
Mormons and Genetics by Mary V. Rorty Sunstone 2003 https://web.stanford.edu/~mvr2j/mormons.html
Millennial Messiah
Blood moon: https://www.space.com/39471-what-is-a-blood-moon.html
Babylon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon
Babylonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia
Dragonheart (metal music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMaLY2wF94c
Happy News: Delivering equitable access to all government funded research to the public: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/breakthroughs-for-alldelivering-equitable-access-to-americas-research/
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Numerology 101! What is it? How many is it? Why is it? We do a quick deep-dive into the esoteric field of numerology and how it influenced Joseph Smith and early Mormonism. We even find out our own numbers just for the fun of it! After that we talk about The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey in a very non-Jim Carrey role, witnessing him driven to madness by, you guessed it, the number 23. We round out with a brief signal boost of the recent sex abuse scandal with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Which sex abuse scandal specifically? Any of them because they never end.
Show links:
Number Symbolism https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism
Pythagorean numerology https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology
Kabbalah numerology http://numerology.center/kabbalah_numerology.php
Chaldean numerology https://numerologytoolbox.com/numerology/chaldean-numerology/
The Philosophy of Numbers by L. Dow. Balliett https://archive.org/details/philosophyofnum00ball/page/126/mode/2up
Happy News:
https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660
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We’ve discussed Mormon endtimes on numerous episodes, but this time we will also discuss some results. Mormonism breeds dangerous men; men who believe the end of the world is coming. Bruce R. McConkie loved the idea of the endtimes. He wrote about it so much that we decided to cover what Mormon Doctrine says are the signs of the endtimes. Then, because we know you just can’t get enough of McCrankie, Shannon will give the 5th segment of Millennial Messiah which, surprise surprise, is all about the death and destruction that is going to happen in the second coming. Then we actually will end the episode leaving you with a feeling that the world isn’t completely on fire with some really cool news about green infrastructure. So fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!
Show links:
Mormon Endtimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_in_Mormonism
https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/04/28/no-george-washington-didnt-believe-in-the-mormon-god/#wrap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bundy-mistrial-2018-story.html
Happy News: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/green-infrastructure-benefit-frontline-communities
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Finally, the long-awaited deep-dive of Paul H. Dunn! Dunn was a General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a consummate liar. He tweaked or fabricated dozens of stories with a spiritual bend which caused Mormons to feel the spirit that what he was saying was true. He also committed financial fraud by cashing in on his high church rank and grandiose public personality. When all this came to light, shelves of believing Mormons came crashing down worldwide, and he was sent to a pasture up north by the apostles. He was, however, successfully insulated by church leadership from any legal repercussions. After that we review Plan 10 From Outer Space, a 90s Mormon sci-fi flick! We round out the episode highlighting the newly created 3-digit number for mental health resources.
Show links:
Oral traditions: https://ich.unesco.org/en/oral-traditions-and-expressions-00053
Douglas Stringfellow: https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-controversial-career-of-Representative-Douglas-Stringfellow-of-Utah/
Paul H Dunn:
Lying for the Lord: The Paul H Dunn Stories, by Lynn H. Packer
What Hast Thou Dunn? By Jerald and Sandra Tanner
FAIR response: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Mormonism_and_church_leadership/Criticisms/Paul_H._Dunn%27s_baseball_and_war_stories
Newspaper reports on Dunn:
Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/1991/2/16/18906053/arizona-paper-alleges-many-stories-were-exaggerated
Sunstone: https://ia804506.us.archive.org/6/items/storiesof_Dunn/Dunn.pdf
The only clip from Plan 10 you NEED to watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BA3SO1sokA
Happy News: https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-hotline-988-ac50f02b74b8b89be5592be3f3605ff5
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Yes, it’s time for our next installment of the Millennial Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie. Before that, however, we’re doing a deep-dive into the history of the BYU center in Jerusalem. We discuss how it came to be, the hurdles overcome, and the strange and mysterious ways in which Mormon God works. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints punched far above its weight class in the sphere of international politics to shoehorn this place onto the Mount of Olives! Then we round out the episode with some happy news about scrap wood being used more sustainably.
Show Links:
Interview of David Galbraith
https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-9-no-1-2008/jerusalem-center-near-eastern-studies-reflections-modern-pioneer
Orson Hyde: A Life of Lessons Learned by Roy Huff
https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-3-no-2-2002/orson-hyde-life-lessons-learned
Eliza R. Snow 1875 Jerusalem trip journal
https://archive.org/details/palestietourutah00smit/page/260/mode/2up
The Haifa German Cemetary and the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center
Mormon Missionary Miracle in Jerusalem
https://historyofmormonism.com/2012/10/11/mormon-missionary-miracle-in-jerusalem/
In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde by Blair Van Dyke, LaMar Berrett
Provo becomes Sister City
https://www.newspapers.com/image/469494086/?terms=byu%20jerusalem&match=1
Couple Donates $267,992 to BYU Jerusalem Center
https://www.newspapers.com/image/286499702/?terms=byu%20jerusalem&match=1
Israeli Jews Fight New Mormon Center by William Claiborne 12/24/1985
Three sets of brothers…
Happy News:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/reforestation-hubs-trees-landfills
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EPISODE 100!!! We’re celebrating this achievement with a different style of show. We’re talking all about hymns and music. What does music do to our brains? How can it be used for benevolent or, conversely, malevolent, purposes? Why is music easier to remember than just about any other media we create or consume? We also discuss some history of hymns and folk music in the Mormon culture and tradition as markers for significant events or used to ensure conformity or battle public perceptions. We round out the episode with some parodies of hymns we wrote to help break the spell!
Show Links:
Hymn Parodies by Bryce & Shannon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1095C1WDVWjOU0I2LVa7bm0Ob-r9e3EORPqJavZd7gd4/edit?usp=sharing
We were on episode #333 of Serious Inquiries Only!: https://seriouspod.com/
Music, Rhythm, and the Brain: https://brainworldmagazine.com/music-rhythm-brain/
The Power of Music: MInd Control, by Rhythmic Sound: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-power-of-music-mind-control-by-rhythmic-sound/
Why Does Music Give You Chills? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51745/why-does-music-give-us-chills
How Cult Leaders Use Music for Mind Control: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/206497/cult-music-mind-control-brainwash
Genetically Modified Skeptic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btz0ocXDeg
Your Brain on Music: A Popular class breaks down how our brain responds to music: https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/your-brain-on-music/
Your Brain on Music | Alan Harvey | TEDxPerth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFFwy5fwYI
What the Latter-Day Saint Hymn ‘Love at Home’ has to do with Blackface: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/06/12/what-latter-day-saint/
Bryce’s links:
Mormon Songs by Levette J. Davidson
https://www.jstor.org/stable/537180
History of hymns
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/hymns?lang=eng
Emma Smith hymn compilation revelation
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-july-1830-c-dc-25/2
Emma 1835 hymnal
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/collection-of-sacred-hymns-1835/8
1880s Psalmody
https://archive.org/details/latterdaysaintsp00unse/page/n90/mode/2up?view=theater
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