Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions,

manifestations, and miracles.

Hi, welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard Ladook.

Hello, Garrett. And this week's podcast, we're going to continue our discussion of the topic

that shall not be named. We... I like that. We'll just say, we're talking about something.

Don't know what it is, but we're talking about it. So when last we left you, Garrett had provided some additional context of kind of the genesis of

some of these claims.

We received an email from a sweet sister who has a loved one.

And so just to reset that a little bit,

to quote parts of this email.

So his biggest issues are with Joseph Smith and church history.

He did tell me that he got some of the,

that he got them from reliable sources.

And remember he is an attorney.

The Joseph Smith sent men on missions, and while they were gone, he married their wives.

And that this is the real reason so many early leaders left the church.

He says he knows prophets aren't perfect, but this is disgusting and totally unacceptable.

And he can no longer believe he was inspired of god

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