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Ep 633 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 5

May 8, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss finish up this 5-part series on McConkie’s 7 Deadly Heresies. We may not have covered everything perfectly. But good news. We don’t have to be perfect. Pass it on.

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Ep 632 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 4

May 7, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss #5 and #6 of McConkie’s deadly heresies. Namely, that people can progress from kingdom to kingdom in the eternities (#5) and that Adam is our God, the father of our spiritual and physical bodies, who traveled to earth from another planet (#6.) It’s a fun discussion that also explores the historical influenced on the “Monarch in the Sky” concept of God, as explained by Alan Watts. It’s a great episode. Enjoy.

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Ep 631 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 3

May 6, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

Have you ever thought that getting married/sealed in the temple guarantees your salvation? WRONG! What about the thought that baptisms for the dead give sinners a second chance at redemption? WRONG AGAIN! Don’t get complacent! Don’t start thinking you are doing just fine!! Don’t ever ever ever ever think that you don’t need the CHURCH or the BIG AND IMPORTANT leaders (ever)! Listen in as Glenn, John, Randy, Bob, and special guest Mike Tannehill smack down the 3rd and 4th most deadly of heresies as outlined with absolute certainty by an infallible apostle of Jesus Christ. (Irony? Hyperbole? Facetiousness? Where???)

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Ep 629 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 1

May 4, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

How deadly can a heresy be? Listen in as Glenn, John, Bob, and Randy smack down some Bruce R. McConkie and figure it all out. So that you don’t have to.

The BYU Speeches (highly amended) transcript is here:
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie_seven-deadly-heresies/

The un-amended audio can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMLH6csjYDQ

And you can sign up to support us on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/Infants

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Ep 628 – Week of Tannehill – Noah’s Ark and the Intentional Literalist

May 2, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

The last frock in the Week of Tannehill series, this was originally published in March 2014. Mike Tannehill joins us once again for this unofficial follow-up to The Unintentional Racist to discuss the recent LDS.com essay on Noah’s Ark with Randy, Scott, Jake, Erica, and Glenn.

Here is the link to the Meridian article in defense of Noah’s Ark.

And here is the LDS.org essay Noah.

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Ep 627 – Week of Tannehill – The Unintentional Racist

May 1, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

Mike Tannehill (love him or hate him) is fighting the good fight against the Mormon church. Or at least against the influence of those liberal academic types trying to re-write church history — more specifically those authors of the recent essay Race and the Priesthood on LDS.org who would have us believe that church doctrine is nothing more than the “theories” of racist men influenced by a racist time who simply could not call down a revelation from God until 1978. Listen in as Mike explains how he remains True to the Faith. When the enemy assaileth, shall he shirk or shun the fight? NO!!!

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Ep 624 – Week of Tannehill – The Apostasy

April 28, 2020 / Glenn Ostlund / 0 Comments

Glenn takes you back to the 4th episode of Infants on Thrones, originally published in September 2012. It is a surprisingly good Radio Lab styled episode, centering on the narrative structure of “loss and restoration” found both in and out of the Mormon church. Mike Tannehill also provides some criteria by which one may determine if a church is in apostasy. (Be careful Mike. This was recorded pre-essays on LDS.com, buddy!)