FairMormon is trying to make TikTok style shorts from DCP's talks

[Philo Sofee]

“There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver.”

Joseph Smith was put on trial for exactly this, per Richard Bushman:

https://rsc.BYU.edu/sites/default/files ... igging.pdf

Wait. You're being skeptical, we want that stopped right now. When DCP has spoken the tinkling is done....

[2bizE]

Option 1 or 2 for the Win.

[Dr. Shades]

“There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver.”

So, telling an underaged girl that she must polygamously marry him in order to get her family into Heaven, and she only has 24 hours to decide, doesn't count as "cynical manipulative deception?"

[Moksha]

A tapir's a horse
Of course, of course
And nobody can talk
To a horse of course
Unless it is Dr. Dan.

Chapel Mormons go yakkity yak
A streak and ask you to believe
But Dr. Dan will never speak
Unless there is a reason to deceive!

[drumdude]

“There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver.”

So, telling an underaged girl that she must polygamously marry him in order to get her family into Heaven, and she only has 24 hours to decide, doesn't count as "cynical manipulative deception?"

Not to Daniel C Peterson.

[Gadianton]

There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver

sneaky. Wouldn't Dan Vogel agree?

[drumdude]

There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver

sneaky. Wouldn't Dan Vogel agree?

Vogel says you don’t need to assume or prove Smith was a con man to argue Mormonism is not what it claims to be. A pious fraud is still a fraud.

[Dr. Shades]

“There’s nothing at all that points to him being a cynical manipulative deceiver.”

In that case, Dr. Peterson ought to familiarize himself with Chris Smith's 2015 Sunstone Presentation showing how Mormonism was originally Joseph Smith's criminal enterprise (link helpfully provided by Moksha on a previous date):

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads ... th2015.mp3

Goodbye, pious fraud theory.