Gently Shake the Holy Ghost's Hand...

#055 Gently Shake the Holy Ghost's Hand...

To make friends with a pigeon.

Sister Patience auditions co-host candidate #2 - Brother Jones! Who tells about his life married to a "Happy Valley Girl", and how his family left Mormonism.

Highlights:

• The origins of Lehi's bizarre vision from 1 Nephi (ya know, with the "iron rod", and the giant tree, and pathways, and a river).
• Compressed Zipped Reformed Egyptian.
• Inconsistent changes to the Book of Mormon over the years.
• Religious and Ex-Religious phychology can be somewhat similar, for better or worse.
• It was weird that Nephi mentioned "baptism" here. The concept did not exist at the time this story supposedly took place.
• 2 Nephi 31:8 retells the story of John 1:33 from the Bible. But the "dove" aspect of the story leads to some weird dogma from Smitty. Should Jesus have tried to shake the dove's hand?
• In 2 Nephi 31:18, Smitty once again connects this with that, and that with something else, with too many prepositions, and ends up with a mess.
• Brother Jones tries an Australian accent!