S2E6 Carthage Conspiracy Part 2

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of Carthage Conspiracy, we continue to address claims made in the video “Who Killed Joseph Smith”. After showing example after example where the creators of the film omitted significant details to allow their “theory” to have any sort of merit we end with the testimony of John Taylor. There are times during Parts 1 and 2 of Carthage Conspiracy where we may appear to be overly levitous for the subject matter. This is done intentionally. This theory is a joke. This video is a joke. The filmmaker’s “research” is a joke. There are aspects of Church history that are difficult for some people. We want to treat their concerns in a kind and loving way and help to provide some historical context. While this video makes some very serious claims, we refuse to take them seriously. They are laughable. 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, manifestations,
0:23.4	and miracles.
0:31.2	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm your host Dr. Garrett
0:35.6	Dirkmont, and I'm joined by Professor Richard
0:37.6	Ledook. And against Dr. Dirk Mott's will, we are doing part two of the murder of Joseph Smith
0:48.6	conspiracy theory. It's really hard to even title it. I don't know.
0:55.5	How do you describe something?
0:59.0	It's kind of like, you know, how do you describe a rose?
1:02.0	Well, how do you describe something that's very much not a rose?
1:07.3	So who killed Joseph Smith is the name of the video, is that we're talking about. And we talked kind of in a rambling fashion a little bit. And kind of should be
1:14.8	completely. Yeah, we did. A little bit. As we described a little bit of what the video was and
1:19.6	some of the different aspects to it. In this particular episode, we want to identify a couple of
1:26.0	items specifically.
1:28.1	So the next one that we wanted to talk about, and this one might, actually, there's a
1:34.0	couple of parts to this, but it's essentially Catherine Smith.
1:37.3	So they bring her up as a, as the star witness of evidence that Joseph knows that he is in a pit of vipers
1:49.6	and that the people that are going to murder him are his friends.
1:54.5	Yeah, and in fact, the way this is presented is,
1:56.1	I'm not the one who came up with this idea that Joseph's own followers were going to try to kill him.
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