S2E44 Counterfeiting Scholarship Part 2

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue our discussion of a self-published anti-Mormon book. We talk about the poor genealogical research done by the author (thank you for the help Family Search). We also address Polygamy and DNA testing, claims of Sydney Rigdon writing the Book of Mormon, and last but not least claims of attempted William Law wife swapping. With our first Standard of Truth Book Review, we give Mormon Counterfeiting the lowest of possible scores: 13 Willard Richard’s pistols down Please visit our website at www.standardoftruth.com 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.
0:31.1	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Garrett
0:35.5	Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend,
0:42.2	Professor Richard Leduke. Hello, Garrett. And when last we left you, the last episode,
0:48.5	we were speaking about a book about secret combinations and early Mormon counterfeiting in the 1800 to 1847, a book by Kathleen Melanacus.
0:55.8	And so, Garrett, you set the table a little bit about sources and publishing and a couple
1:02.9	of different things.
1:03.7	And so we wanted to get into that.
1:05.1	But before we did, you had a text that you wanted to read.
1:08.7	We were going to a different type of mailbag.
1:11.8	One of one electronically said.
1:14.6	Versus the emails that we received.
1:17.6	Very different.
1:18.4	Yeah, no.
1:19.3	This was a text that I received from someone that they started out by saying, hey, today's podcast was amazing. And this was in reference to
1:31.7	the podcast that we did on the, on both the prosperity gospel and then also in our discussion about
1:43.2	the kind of the meme about Joseph Smith polygamy that was being
1:48.8	misappropriated.
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