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Irreligiosophy

67: Fake Mormon Debate

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2010

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we engage Palmer, an atheist who pretended to be Mormon so we'd let him on the show.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this episode of Irreligiosophy where we actually have found a Mormon who will talk to us and not about respect.

0:17.0

Yes, yes, so this should actually be pretty good because I don't believe we'll hear in any of it that is not what I came here to discuss.

0:26.0

That'll be a refreshing change.

0:30.0

So in this episode we've actually brought aboard Palmer who has emailed us because

0:36.7

he was so disappointed in Layton's brother Sean's performance on our previous

0:41.4

podcast about respecting other people's beliefs.

0:44.0

Now I must apologize. Although I have a family of 19, that's the best I could find in the family.

0:50.0

So now you understand the bars I must step.

0:54.0

Palmer is a faithful Latter-day Saint who's come courageously under the show to defend

1:01.4

that position. Is that correct? That is correct. So tell us a little bit

1:06.0

about yourself Palmer. What's your background? Sure. I grew up in the southwestern United States, lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of

1:16.0

Latter-day Saints.

1:18.2

The members of my family have been members of that church for five generations on both sides,

1:24.0

mostly coming out of southern Arizona rather than the Utah troop.

1:28.0

I'm a former gospel doctrine teacher, former Elderskorm president,

1:32.0

return missionary, the whole enchilada.

1:36.5

So you've been on a mission and you were responsible for teaching, I'm not familiar with

1:42.4

gospel doctrine class is this kids is this adults

1:46.1

adolescents who are you teaching that's more adults in the gospel doctrine class

1:51.1

yeah it's the the higher level class for long time members of the church to go learn

1:56.2

about church doctrine history etc. They have a lower adult class but I forget

2:01.7

what it's called it's not

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