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dydimus
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Date: May 02, 2015 01:58PM
I was just reading this same subject, stuff I hadn't heard about before. I found this out by listening to Bushman on the POD cast.
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1572842,1572974#msg-1572974When my shelf broke, I was totally anti-B.Y. I figured Joseph might have been a real prophet because I was finding all these things on Brigham (Blacks and priesthood, getting rid of the council of 50, trash talking Emma, leaving widows/women to fend for themselves, etc...) So I almost joined CoC. Then I discovered what Joseph said and did (all of this was before CES letter, etc...)
Now I'm not sure who was Lucifer and who was Belzeebub? Brigham definitely was just as much of liar, thief, egotist as J.S.; yet he had changed all of the order, structure, purpose of the Church Joseph Smith had set up. It's like asking who was worse Hitler or Stalin? Smith or Young?