2 Nephi 05

The guys are excited about their new theme song. Maybe the listener has heard it before, but this is when it debuted for them. Joe makes Smith listen to a wacky recording from Willy Wood. The guys wonder what it would be like to leave the early church and if it would upset JS. Joe returns and reports about Matt Easton, who mentioned being a proud gay son of God in his BYU valedictorian commencement speech. Joe has a lot of indignation about J-Ho’s response. Joe watched Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) and wishes that the general authorities taught love and acceptance. The guys figure out how tall D’Oakes is. Smith bears his testimony of Fred Rogers. Neither of the guys have seen A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). 

Smith doesn’t want to deal with Zoram today, and who could blame him? Nephi doesn’t want to sound like it was his idea to name the place after him. The guys have a new take on the BOM’s use of the word multiply. 

Smith calls for (and Joe agrees) the church to remove this section of the BOM. It’s made up. It’s not helping society. JS wants to make damn certain that the reader knows that those 116 pages were stolen, he takes an opportunity in this verse to do so. Joe reads from an apologist website that explains the blatant racism in this chapter and Smith does not like it. Joe goes into a quick summary of the problems surrounding the books of Abraham and Moses that JS claims to have translated from papyri. Smith points out how impressive it is to pull an entire religion out of a hat. 

 

The 1897 Audio Record of Wilford Woodruff's Testimony https://youtu.be/5NjANSFISFY 

BYU 2019 FHSS Valedictorian Speech https://youtu.be/rLeMVykzvKY 

Matt Easton responds to Elder Holland: Diversity is not divisiveness https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/08/27/matt-easton-elder-holland/ 

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA 

The Charge of “Racism” in the Book of Mormon  https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2003/the-charge-of-racism-in-the-book-of-mormon 

 

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