Kishkumen wrote:This is all very interesting, Darth. Phelps seems to have fancied himself to be quite the scholar, and he used his talents, such that they were, to add a veneer of historical and scholarly learning to Joseph Smith's more folksy methods.
Eventually, we may find that essentially every troubling aspect of Mormon history can be blamed on W.W. Phelps.
Kishkumen wrote:This is all very interesting, Darth. Phelps seems to have fancied himself to be quite the scholar, and he used his talents, such that they were, to add a veneer of historical and scholarly learning to Joseph Smith's more folksy methods.
Eventually, we may find that essentially every troubling aspect of Mormon history can be blamed on W.W. Phelps.
I doubt that.
If it were so, the leaders of the church, from Joseph Smith on, would have used their powers of discernment to detect Phelps' wicked influence and would have purged from the church any evils that he brought or attempted to bring upon it.
Or, more likely, Sandra Tanner would have exposed Phelps long ago.
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