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Irreligiosophy

25: The Mantle is Far, Far Greater

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2009

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this our 25th episode, we delve into LDS General Authority Boyd K. Packer's 1981 speech to his church educators on scholarship, objectivity, and fairness, and why none of those should be valued within the LDS church education system. A fascinating look into how Mormon youth should ideally be educated so as to avoid losing their faith.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome again to another edition of Irrigiosophy and this week we've actually got a doozy. Now Charlie I know

0:15.1

we've talked about only having two listeners when we when we do these podcasts but I

0:19.8

think we just found a third listener from Sydney Australia and I believe this week's

0:25.2

podcast is perfect for the email he sent.

0:28.3

Yeah actually we've been receiving more

0:33.5

e-mails about our Mormon stuff than we have about anything else.

0:34.0

That's I think it's it's more just fascinating to people because I mean the

0:39.1

LDS religion has been in the news quite a bit lately and I don't think a lot of people know very much about it.

0:44.6

In fact, let me quote what Chris said right here.

0:48.3

Let's see, I found your expert.

0:51.0

I'm sorry, do you have his permission to quote his private email and spread it out to all three of our listeners?

0:59.4

Well seeing how I'm not using his last name I think he's safe and in fact I sent him an email

1:07.0

stating that I was hoping to use his email in this podcast and trust me from what he put on the last of this I don't

1:16.7

think he's going to mind because he's pretty sure to be joining us in hell

1:19.3

too. So you are in fact using it without permission. Yes I am.

1:23.0

All right.

1:24.0

Just want to make that clear.

1:25.0

In fact, I'm pretty sure that will thrust me into hell as well, but I'm okay with that.

1:30.0

Go ahead.

1:31.0

All right, it says, I found your explanations of the history and doctrines of the LDS Church

1:36.8

absolutely fascinating.

1:38.8

It boggles my mind that people can take that stuff seriously.

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