Entries by Rob Fotheringham

Pattern of Documented Deception

7 examples of documented deception in the LDS “History of the Church” from the last year of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Recommended resources: “Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young” https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-making-of-a-mormon-myth-the-1844-transfiguration-of-brigham-young/#pdf-wrap “The Council of Fifty, Orson Hyde, and the ‘Last Charge’” https://www.jstor.org/stable/26614522

Why D&C 132 feels strange

Intended for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is a section of scripture that feels misaligned with the rest of the revelations restored through the prophet Joseph Smith. This video explains why. Evidence that D&C 132 contradicts Joseph’s JST revisions, that Joseph specifically denied the legitimacy of the polygamous portions […]

The 12th Article of Faith was a lie

The Articles of Faith were adopted as the rule of LDS faith and conduct as part of a campaign of deception. Sources: Political Deliverance, The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood; Edward Leo Lyman The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America; Sarah Barringer Gordon Under The Prophet in Utah, The National Menace of […]

How not to fake a revelation

The LDS Church claims that the source manuscript for Doctrine and Covenants section 132 was created by one person, Joseph C. Kingsbury. Evidence presented in this video indicates that two different people participated in the creation of the document. This exposes yet another lie told by Brigham Young to inaccurately implicate Joseph Smith in the […]