Ep 45 – Militant Seekers of Truth
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, the duration of our discussion lands us in September and early October of 1838. We start with brief introductions to Generals Alexander Doniphan and David Atchison; two non-Mormon allies the Mormons desperately needed when it seemed everybody in Missouri wanted them dead or gone. Jo and Lyman Wight retained these generals for legal counsel prior to a ceremonial preliminary trial held to charge Jo and Wight with mob violence. Rumors were also circulating that the Mormons were trying to ally themselves with the Native Americans to attempt an overthrow of the Missourian Government. Rumors don’t need to be founded in reality to scare the shit out of the public. Diahmen comes under siege from Dr. W. W. Austin’s troops after the Mormons steal a convoy of arms and take three prisoners. After a buy-out of the non-Mormons in Daviess County is negotiated, these anti-Mormon vigilantes lay siege on DeWitt and force its surrender nearly 2 weeks later. Mormons are chased out of their homes with many dying from exposure and illness. Jo had to do something to keep his people from starving…
Links:
1830 1st edition BoM title page
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/book-of-mormon-1830/7
Asahel Lathrop affidavit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahel_Lathrop
My Book of Mormon D&C war section
https://mybookofmormonpodcast.com/2016/08/21/122/
BBC The Life of Muhammad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVGieY0W6lY
Aversions Crown Alien Metal video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkYliL7KIQs
Podunk Polymath guest spot
https://thepodunkpolymath.com/2017/01/02/tppp-episode-21-naked-politics/
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| 0:00.0 | This is Naked Mormonism. |
| 0:04.0 | I pledge my life all that I may have. |
| 0:09.0 | I will strive to the utmost of my ability to be what you would want me to be. |
| 0:15.0 | It's time to find the truth. |
| 0:17.0 | And having set our hand to the plow, we will never look back until this work is finished. |
| 0:30.5 | Where is the church going? |
| 0:31.7 | I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. |
| 0:40.7 | But it will not be saved in Washington. |
| 0:44.5 | It will be saved by enlightened members of this church. |
| 0:49.4 | The explicit tag is there for a reason. |
| 0:51.8 | So if you get offended at what's said, it's not for you. But most importantly, |
| 0:56.5 | may you ponder the truths you've heard. May they help you become even better than you were. |
| 1:03.7 | Skeptocize everything. |
| 1:19.6 | Welcome to episode 45 of the Naked Mormonism podcast, the serial Mormon history podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | Today is January 5th, 2017. Happy New Year. My name is Bryce Blankanagle, and thank you for joining me. |
| 1:34.8 | Let's do a quick wrap-up of the last historical episode to kind of jump us into the timeline for this episode. The previous two episodes were discussions with Cody Naconi discussing the possible anthogen use throughout human history and, well, in its impact on religion and |
| 1:46.4 | possibly Mormonism. But of course, those were the special edition episode 35 and 36. |
| 1:52.8 | Let's discuss the last historical episode to get us through the milk of today, and then we'll |
| 1:57.7 | just jump right into the meat. So to wrap it up, we had the Gallatin Day election battle that was basically incited by this guy, |
| 2:06.1 | William Pinoston, standing up on a barrel and talking about how those Mormons are terrible religious fanatics and whatnot. |
| 2:12.5 | Basically, the mobs reacted and got in this huge fight, and it just antied up the constant religious and socioeconomic strife that was just absolutely plaguing Missouri at this time. |
| 2:28.4 | After that, in response to the Gallatin Election Day battle, Joe and Rigdon take the Danites to Diomond to impose their will upon elected |
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