1368: Mormon Apologist Non-Profits and Violence

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we will provide an overview of several LDS church apologetic non-profits, and discuss recent concerns about dishonesty, mean-spiritedness, and the incitement of violence by some people associated with these Mormon apologist non-profits. The Mormon apologetic non-profits that we will be discussing today include: the More Good Foundation, the Mormon Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, and FAIRMormon.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John DeLin.
0:04.8	It is October 6, 2020 and this is a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:12.1	Things have gotten really serious as of late. Some of you know that recently an organization
0:22.0	called Fair Mormon, which is an apologist, non-profit, has hired a few actors to create some YouTube
0:30.7	videos and some podcasts to try and defend and protect the Mormon Church. And these videos
0:39.9	and podcasts have been very controversial. They're more edgy. They're more fun, but they're also
0:45.3	harsher and the result has been a lot of frustration by some and in some cases anger because
0:58.4	in some senses many people feel that these videos or podcasts are misleading. We're not going to
1:03.7	be talking about that necessarily from a historical context today. But what's become more serious is
1:10.6	these podcasts and YouTube channels have in some cases encouraged or used kind of
1:19.9	demeaning language towards certain people and in some cases have led to a lot of reactions
1:28.4	that have been perceived as violent. And in my particular case I've recently had people
1:37.2	posting some very violent videos on Twitter and elsewhere and some very very dangerous
1:48.4	also statements on Twitter and elsewhere. And so I've filed police reports after today. I'm
1:56.5	also going to be talking to the FBI because these comments made on Twitter and these videos posted
2:02.8	on Twitter that have been reposted by people affiliated with Fair Mormon. Because of sort of
2:13.2	the way that things have escalated in a violent way, I'm going to be reporting this to the FBI
2:18.8	as I've already reported it to local police departments. I know Jeremy Reynolds has also filed
2:25.6	I believe a report with the police. You'll have to give me I'm feeling a little bit nervous and
2:30.4	so I'm a little bit jumbled and rambly this morning. But so what I wanted to do was put together
2:39.1	a presentation with my friend Harado trying to make sense of what's going on. And so I appreciate
2:46.3	everyone who's joining us today. Originally I was so angry and so sad and so frustrated that I
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