072 - Pseudologia Fantastica

Episode 72 September 24, 2020 01:06:26
072 - Pseudologia Fantastica
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072 - Pseudologia Fantastica

Sep 24 2020 | 01:06:26

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Show Notes

It may sound like a spell from the Harry Potter movies, but it's just a fancy way of saying "pathological lying". We take a side-step for a moment from discussing the next "principle and ordinance of the gospel" (baptism) to chat a little about how Joe Jr. was a mythomaniac (another word for compulsive liar) and used a combination of the familiar, intriguing, and mysterious to build the foundation of what would later become the Mormon church.

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