
Mormon Civil War
This is a place for dialogue about 'Christians vs Pharisees: Choosing sides and how to fight for them in the Mormon Civil War' and other collaborations like 'The Loyal Opposition' where Peter Bleakley has teamed up with Nemo the Mormon. At current rates of decline in active membership the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will functionally cease to exist in Europe, most of the rest of the world and several regions of the USA in the next 10-15 years, so radical reforms need to happen now if it is to survive, and it may already too late. The vast majority of members have already left the Church globally, including 80% of the young people raised in it, and recently leaked data has revealed that in my homeland of the UK and the Republic of Ireland we are down to less than 15% of our members active and it is falling fast. The stats across the rest of Europe are similar. I will be discussing not only what the General Authorities and local leaders and members have to stop doing and saying to choose Christian Mormonism instead of Pharisee Mormonism (and stop trying to teach and practice both at once and failing), but also the positive changes that need to happen radically and fast to have this amazing religion with so much positive potential survive and thrive in the real world of the 21st Century. What do you think it will take?
Episodes
41 episodes
MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 12 - THEISMS AND THE SUPREME BEING
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this final conversation Paul shares his conclusions about the Godhead that the text of the Book of Mormon actually describes, and it’s nothing like the ‘Fullness of...
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Episode 41
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47:27

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 11 – MORMON MYSTERIES
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this penultimate episode we try to make some sense of 5 of the biggest conundrums in Mormon theology: 1 - How is God male and female?2 - Who act...
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Episode 40
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47:40

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 10 – THE GLORY OF GOD
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesAs we continue to ponderize how to integrate the religiously ideal with the real in our normal lives, Paul and I discuss what it means to base a religion on the glory ...
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Episode 39
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50:28

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 9 – TEMPLE PRIESTHOODS
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this meaty episode we explore all kinds of aspects of what taking the LDS temple endowment’s promises seriously can unlock for autonomous, ordained men and women em...
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Episode 38
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1:08:37

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 8 – CHAPEL PRIESTHOODS
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn the first of a 2-parter we start to learn what Paul Toscano means by ‘Chapel Priesthoods’ and ‘Temple Priesthoods’. After a much more sophisticated beginning,...
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Episode 37
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25:23

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 7 – JOSEPH SMITH: GOOD OR EVIL?
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesHow do you solve a problem like Joseph Smith? Can a master manipulator, con artist, skilful storyteller, sexual predator, financial fraudster, and destroyer of p...
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Episode 36
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1:29:29

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 6 – MYSTICS, PROPHETS AND MANAGERS
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this episode we wrestle with the conflicting qualities required of the leaders of a religion. Ideally they need to balance a mystical sensitivity for the divi...
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Episode 35
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58:20

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 5 – SCRIPTURE AS VISIONARY TEXT
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this episode we dive into the challenges and frustrations of interacting with a religious text. If it is not accurate, literal history, why should we ...
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Episode 34
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40:51

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 4 – REVELATION: INSIGHT TO THEOPHANY
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this episode, with reference to powerful visionary experiences of his own and his ancestors, Paul explores the simultaneous relationship between the real and the f...
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Episode 33
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55:54

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 3 - IMAGINATION VS FANTASY
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this third of 12 conversations we discuss how to have a rational faith. What is the difference between using our intellectual reasoning and imagination rooted...
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Episode 32
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1:07:28

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 2 - IDEALISM VS PHYSICALISM
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this second of 12 conversations we explore the ultimate theological conundrum: If religion and Gods are real rather than a human invention to help us cope wit...
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Episode 31
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44:51

MORMON CIVIL WAR: THE CHRISTMAS TOSCANO DIALOGUES DAY 1 - MORMONISM VS CHRISTIANITY
Peter, Paul and Mormonism – The 12 Days of Christmas Toscano DialoguesIn this first of 12 conversations we explore some of Paul's journey to excommunicated September Sixer and beyond as one of the very few people even trying to be a pro...
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Episode 30
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1:16:37

MORMON CIVIL WAR EPISODE 14 - THE MORMON SCRIPTURES THAT COULD WIN THE 21ST CENTURY - SUNSTONE UK SPECIAL
I grew up in an LDS Mormonism ready to take on the world, fill the world and rescue mainstream Christianity from its fundamental doctrinal flaws. Fearless about an intellectually defendable thoughtful faith and fizzing with big ideas about peop...
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Episode 29
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4:34:32

MORMON CIVIL WAR EPISODE 13 - CRAZY GENERAL CONFERENCE PREDICTIONS WITH LATTER-DAILY DIGEST
With April 2024 General Conference looming in a few days, the Church haemorrhaging members and facing extinction in the coming decade, and a First Presidency in their 90’s and on their very last legs, how about a different kind of General Confe...
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Episode 28
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1:31:46

MORMON CIVIL WAR EPISODE 11C - TAKE BACK CONTROL! THE SHARED ETERNAL CORE OF THE GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LOONBATS
What if there was a General Conference of the leading LDS Loonbats selling dangerous brutal parenting, energy healing mumbo jumbo, porn addiction paranoia, anti-science propaganda, child rescuing fraud with celebrity donors, thought-stopping Bl...
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Episode 27
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6:34:44

MORMON CIVIL WAR EPISODE 11B - TAKE BACK CONTROL! DEMOCRACY IS THE WAY, NOT TIM BALLARD, END TIME PREPPERS, MURDEROUS MOMMY BLOGGERS OR THE APOSTLES WHO MADE THEM ALL INEVITABLE
As I continue to map out a pathway for radically reforming the LDS Church to avoid its imminent self-destruction that is already authorised by its scriptures and written constitution, things just got wild! This episode will begin to guide you t...
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Episode 26
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3:28:54

MCW 12 Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 12 - POLYGAMY WARS! WHEN APOLOGISTS ATTACK
The 11A 'Take Back Control' miniseries will resume soon, but here is a special treat. Maven crossed the world to join me in the Sceptred Isles and review an extraordinary and rare encounter in Online Mormon World. Brian Hales, regar...
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Episode 25
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6:03:21

MCW 11A Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 11A - TAKE BACK CONTROL! HOW TO REMOVE INCOMPETENT, RACIST, ABUSIVE, MYSOGINIST, LYING THIEVES FROM POWER AND GIVE CHRISTIAN MORMONISM A CHANCE TO SU
As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints falls into its final self-inflicted spiral to destruction here in the UK, around the world, and even in its American heartlands, it's time to get real. After 5 years of exploring the caus...
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Episode 24
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5:26:18

CvP 10G Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10G - FOUNDATIONS OF THE RESTORATION OF RACISM
As we conclude the Bradgate Episodes 10 series things get truly crazy. Imagine if despite the Church officially disavowing all racism in and out of the Church, past and present, in its 2012 statement and 2013 Race and the Priesthood Gospel Topi...
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Episode 23
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6:00:52

CvP 10F Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10F - REHABILITATION RESCUE AND RELENTLESS RACISM
In this episode Bradgate reaches the day of reconning. Brad Wilcox's fellow Young Men General Presidency member Ahmad Corbitt is quickly brought in to rehabilitate him in his next youth fireside. It should have been perfect - Brad sort of...
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Episode 22
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5:43:10

CvP 10E Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10E - APOTHEOSIS AND ALPINE APOCALYPSE
In this episode we experience and discuss the very best and very worst of Brad Wilcox - a fantastic General Conference talk that would have transformed by experience as a youth but came 3 decades too late, and his nosedive into weak apologetics...
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Episode 21
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3:21:18

CvP 10D Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10D - SUNDERLAND, SPOTLIGHT, SWANSONGS & CENSORSHIP
In this episode we finish analysing what Brad Wilcox said in his online fireside Sunderland, England Stake hosted before launching into his Alpine Tri-Stake Disaster, and the rehabilitation that made everything worse, in the following episodes....
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Episode 20
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6:50:15

CvP 10C Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10C - SUNDERLAND, A SENSIBLE APOLOGIST, AND SWINDLING THE SAINTS
In this episode we spend some time dipping into the Covid Lockdown online fireside Sunderland, England Stake hosted with my favourite kosher LDS apologist, historian Patrick Mason, as a contrast to the approach of Brad Wilcox and other General ...
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Episode 19
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2:20:38

CvP 10B Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10B - BRADGATE!! WHO IS BRAD WILCOX? AND WHAT DID HE TEACH THE TEENAGERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES?
BRADGATE!! WHAT THE CHURCH MUST LEARN FROM THE FALL AND ATTEMPTED REHABILITATION OF BRAD WILCOX EPISODE 10B - BRADGATE!! WHO IS BRAD WILCOX? AND WHAT DID HE TEACH THE TEENAGERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES?As we celebrate the...
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Episode 18
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3:24:53

CvP 10A Christians v Pharisees: Choosing Sides And How To Fight For Them In The Mormon Civil War EPISODE 10A - BRADGATE!! THE STATE OF THE DISUNION
BRADGATE!! WHAT THE CHURCH MUST LEARN FROM THE FALL AND ATTEMPTED REHABILITATION OF BRAD WILCOX EPISODE 10A - THE STATE OF THE DISUNIONThere is so much to chew on as we process what Brad Wilcox, Elementary School Teacher, B...
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Episode 17
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2:45:15
