I am Ryan McKnight.

I'm Kara Santa Maria.

I am Christopher Smith.

Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.

This is Naked Mormonism.

The Serial Mormon History Podcast.

While Joseph and Hiram Smith languish away in Carthage jail with, of course, a few

with their closest and most trusted allies.

We spent the last few weeks catching other people in the timeline up to June of 1844.

It's a complicated time in Mormon and Illinois history with a lot of moving parts.

Today, I want to zoom out.

Take a few steps back and see a larger picture. Today we're going to talk about the world of the 1840s and the Mormon plans of revolution. Let's discuss the wiring, the weaponry, the armor, the structure, and fuel source for Talos, the Mormon War Machine.

And let's find out this thing's first mission.

As a preface, radical and revolutionary movements throughout history

teach us that a radicalized vocal minority can force a silent majority into committing any sort

of atrocity. Before the silent majority realize what's happened and the way things are,

the radical minority has seized too much power to be stopped. Now, sometimes these radical revolutions are necessary

to progress society, and we have to weigh the cost of human life in the balance. From a strictly

American-centric perspective, the revolutionary war was started by a vocal minority, which led to chaos,

death, destruction, but gained America its independence from the British Commonwealth.

The impacts of this revolution led by this radical vocal minority are far-reaching their history-shaping and they're impactful for millions,

billions of people on a global scale.

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