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The Trouble With Temples: RFM: 410

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 193 minutes

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Summary

RFM is joined once more by Kolby Reddish as they break down the Light and Truth Letter. In chapter 10, Austin Fife argues the LDS temple endowment ritual is better explained by links to the ancient Near East, as opposed to the contemporary Masonry going on in Joseph’s own backyard. In presenting his case, Austin… Read More »The Trouble With Temples: RFM: 410

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0:00.0

Good evening, everybody. This is Radio Free Mormon broadcasting behind enemy lines. This is episode

0:07.3

410 of RFM, The Trouble with Temples. Well, Colby Reddish, my esteemed co-counsel and I are back

0:16.2

in the saddle again and writing heard on Austin Fife's Light on Truth Letter. We're up to chapter 10,

0:23.0

which is titled something about temples and ancient connections where Austin seeks to

0:27.4

bolster our faith in the Mormon temple and the endowment by making comparisons with the ancient

0:34.6

world and avoiding at every chance he can't avoiding any connections with

0:39.5

masonry well we're going to supply his deficit tonight let me first welcome on the stage there he is

0:46.6

there's colby reddish everybody hey rfm good morning i'm pausing for the applause oh oh so anyway you. By the way, you put this together, and I want to put this up here so everybody can see how clever this is. It's the trouble with temples. It is responding to Austin Fife's chapter, chapter 10, temples and ancient connections in the light and truth letter that's what he calls it we call it the

1:12.3

light on truth letter we'll let you decide which is the more appropriate title and we have also

1:17.7

supplied his deficit in giving chapter numbers to his chapters because they don't have any numbers

1:23.2

so we're numbering them so hopefully you can find them better. Chapter 10, temples and ancient connections. It's been several months since we were together. Glad to have you back, Colby. How are you doing? Yeah, doing well, RFM. Excited to get through this book, I think, is the, what we call it, nominally. Yeah, and today's going to be so great.

1:44.3

We got 90 slides, but we're going to go through them, lickety split, believe it or not, we will not, repeat, will not be here for four hours. We're not going to break our record on this one. This is a promise I'm making to you and to myself right now. These are great images. What are these images that you came up with of you and me, Colby? Yeah, I just took a screenshot

2:03.3

from one of our recordings and asked my little AI friend to make us Lego, and I thought it was

2:09.3

adorable. Well, I think your little AI friend, I don't know. I think it's kind of got less hair on me,

2:17.0

even than I have, and it's got more

2:18.4

hair on you than you have. Is that fair? That's true. When I did, I think when I texted this to you,

2:24.5

you asked me about, hey, why did it make me have less hair? And I did run it back through, but it gave

2:30.8

you way more hair. So I want your hair.

2:35.2

Yeah.

2:35.5

This can be designed.

2:37.0

By the way, I also like how I'm in my office.

2:39.9

There's the sign.

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