35: The Shadow of Joseph's Polygamy & its Ongoing Institutional Reverberations
Latter Day Struggles
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The Grandiocity of a Prophet
The trickle down effect becomes devastating, and we begin to really hurt others because we think we are above the law. Let's just talk a little bit about joseph smith's struggles with grandiocity as he further estranges himself from his own humanity. Th feeling that somehow he was personally infallible. There was a sort of an inn crowd, and there was a dynastic sense of being connected to him,. It's a grandiocity, a placing of people above other people and them having different rules. And then, of course, another element of this grandiocity was just his general treatment of the women that a, he coerced into these plural marriages.
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