This is Naked Mormonism.

I pledge my life all that I may have.

I will strive to the utmost of my ability to be what you would want me to be.

It's time to find the truth.

And having set our hand to the plow, we will never look back until this work is

finished. Where is the church going? I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith.

But it will not be saved in Washington.

It will be saved by enlightened members of this church.

It splits a tag is there for a reason, so if you get offended at what's said, it's not for you. But most

importantly, may you ponder the truths you've heard. May they help you become even better than you

were? Skepticides everything.

Today we bring a close to our series on the Council of 50.

When we started this two weeks ago, I told all of you, dear listeners, that this is a remarkably

important subject of Mormon history, and you'll need to remember what we discussed in this

series for the rest of the podcast moving forward into the Bloody Brigham Young, Utah years. Last episode, I took historian D. Michael Quinn to

task because I felt like he was minimizing the Council of 50 by viewing its eventual result

while de-emphasizing the intent of the Council when it was organized. The intent of the Council

of 50 is a subject we need to spend our time

and focus on because our timeline is in early 1844 when it was organized and the initial intent

was all that mattered at this time. So far, we've covered how the council was organized,

the reason for the council's organization, the earliest members,

William Clayton and his recording duties that deliver to us the minutes of what took place

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