S1E26 Joseph Smith‘s Decision to Run for President Part 2

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Part 2 continues our discussion of Joseph Smith‘s reasons for declaring himself a candidate for President of the United States. Joseph responds to the leading politicians of the day who are too cowardly to pledge to help the suffering Saints. If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,
0:08.0	where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
0:12.6	and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church
0:19.6	and grow it by way of visions,
0:22.6	manifestations, and miracles.
0:31.6	Hi, welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:34.1	I'm your host Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend Richard Leduke.
0:37.7	Hello, Garrett.
0:38.4	In the last podcast, we talked about the context surrounding Joseph Smith's decision to run for president.
0:47.9	We got up to the point where he had written letters to potential candidates on both sides or both parties, the wigs and
0:57.4	the Democrats. And we have, we started with John C. Calhoun. We provided a lot of context.
1:05.1	It was very context heavy. Well, but I think that this is important because, you know,
1:10.1	this isn't in a vacuum and there's a
1:11.9	lot of things that are going on that are driving both Joseph Smith's decision to leave the
1:17.3	country as well as his decision to run for president.
1:19.4	Well, that and all I offer is context.
1:21.7	Yeah.
1:23.0	I can only really provide context, context, context.
1:28.1	Yeah. To things that you clearly don't even care context, context, context. Yeah.
1:29.0	To things that you clearly don't even care about.
1:31.1	Well, I mean, 19th century religious and political issues, which is you, I mean,
1:37.1	it's a good thing you're LDS.
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