Ep260: Anti-Brigham Rhetoric: How the LDS Church Lost its Star Prophet to Conspiracy

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca, Landon, and Ganesh Brigham Young's fall from grace as a result of the accusation that Brigham was responsible for polygamy, not Joseph Smith. And in addition, Brigham Young did a lot of awful other things that Joseph would never do.Ganesh show that many things Brigham Young is accused of, Joseph Smith did years earlier and independently of Brigham. In other words, they were two peas in a pod.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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