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Selling LDS Temples!!!!

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This next episode is full of surprises!  I’ve got 2 sample quotes below!  Mormons know that the Kirtland Temple is currently owned by the Community of Christ, rather than the church based in Salt Lake City.  Have you ever wondered why the Mormons in Salt Lake City don’t own that temple?  I asked Dr. Richard Bennett that question, a BYU professor of Church History and Doctrine, and was really surprised by his answer! I had no idea Church leaders ever considered selling LDS Temples!

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Brigham Young and the Quorum of Twelve made the conscious decision, not publicized to too many people that we needed to sell off the temples…

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Dr Bennett also said that the US government, and Missouri actually saved the saints!

We think of Missouri as being the great enemy of the church.  It was of course in the 1830s, the expulsion by Governor Boggs and what have you.  But as we were moving west, many of the saints went down into Missouri on side trips to work for the season wherever that might be, building fences, harvesting crops.  We have an interesting paradox that Missouri saved the Church heading west in 1846-47.

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  • Date: April 7, 2017
  • Guest: Richard E. Bennett
  • Kirtland Ohio, Kirtland Temple, LDS Temples, Mormon Exodus, Nauvoo Temple
  • Historical Mentions Mormon History
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Rick Bennett is the friendly, independent historian at the heart of Gospel Tangents LDS Podcast: The Best Source for Mormon History, Science, and Theology. When he isn't interviewing Mormon scholars, prophets, and others, he is teaching math and statistics at Utah Valley University. He also freelances as a research biostatistician in the fields of Dermatology and Traumatic Brian Injuries, as well as in the network television/cable T.V. industries as a sports statistician. Rick holds a Master of Statistics Degree from the University of Utah.

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