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SHOW NOTES, including all sources mentioned in this episode, are available on Patreon with a FREE membership. FREE members also get our monthly newsletter. Paid memberships start at $2/month for AD-FREE listening. https://www.patreon.com/postmormonpostmortem
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
SHOW NOTES, including all sources mentioned in this episode, are available on Patreon with a FREE membership. FREE members also get our monthly newsletter. Paid memberships start at $2/month for AD-FREE listening. https://www.patreon.com/postmormonpostmortem
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
SHOW NOTES, including all sources mentioned in this episode, are available on Patreon with a FREE membership. FREE members also get our monthly newsletter. Paid memberships start at $2/month for AD-FREE listening. https://www.patreon.com/postmormonpostmortem
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
Mormon temples sit at the center of LDS worship, marriage, salvation, and spiritual status. Members need a temple recommend to enter, and non-members—including close family—can be excluded from weddings held inside.
This episode explains how temple recommend interviews work, what members are asked about tithing, belief, sexuality, and obedience, and what happens during the Mormon endowment ceremony. We cover new names, ritual clothing, veils, tokens, handshakes, secrecy promises, and the penalties that remained in the ceremony until 1990.
We also examine temple garments, claims of spiritual protection, temple sealings, proxy baptisms and endowments for the dead, spirit prison, and the church’s performance of ordinances for Holocaust victims and members of other religions.
These practices shape Mormon family relationships, clothing, marriage, personal worthiness, social status, and access to the highest level of heaven. We ask whether Mormon temple culture is sacred, secret, or a system that keeps members dependent on church authority.
SHOW NOTES, including all sources mentioned in this episode, are available on Patreon with a FREE membership. FREE members also get our monthly newsletter. Paid memberships start at $2/month for AD-FREE listening. https://www.patreon.com/postmormonpostmortem
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
Mormon beliefs begin with Joseph Smith's claims that God and Jesus appeared to him, that an angel led him to golden plates, and that seer stones placed in a hat produced the Book of Mormon.
We examine those founding claims, from the First Vision and the Book of Abraham to Joseph Smith's secret polygamy and the Mormon Church's claim to be the only true church on earth. We also cover the three degrees of glory, becoming gods, temple sealings, the second anointing, tithing, teachings about race, and the doctrines that decide who qualifies for the highest level of heaven.
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Theme song | Vocals: Hannah W. | Guitar: Dr. Dave | Audio: Mick
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