The How-To Heretic

A User's Guide to Life Beyond Religion

Whether you're just thinking about leaving your religion, or you're a dyed-in-the-wool decades-long atheist, your audio uncles Mark and Dan are here to help. With the aid of wise friends and experts in all sorts of fields, The How-To Heretic Podcast will guide you through the scary worlds of heathen living, and make sure you have fun in your new heretical life! We're here for you, friend; so kick off your shoes and join us!

Filtering by Tag: Joseph Smith

175: Gimme Some Skin

January 27, 2021  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Dan makes the Book of Mormon seem kinda dumb with 3rd Nephi part 1, Uncle Mark thinks the story of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle should be rated R, and Uncle Doug does a Q with no A with Heretics in the news!

tags / Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, 3rd Nephi, the Gadianton Robbers, Catholicism, martyrdom, Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, the Synoptic Gospels, torture, Armenia, Heretics in the news, Mike Lindell, domestic terrorism, fascism, Qanon, cult, the Great Disappointment

174: Queen of Heaven

January 20, 2021  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Mark traces some insurrectionist DNA back to the Mormon Council of 50, Uncle Doug stinks up the place with Moxibustion, and Uncle Dan introduces us to Mrs. God with the Queen of Heaven!

tags / Mormonism, Joseph Smith, The Council of 50, politics, insurrection, secret society, anti-Mormon violence, Lilburn Boggs, Brigham Young, Watch out for Woo, quack medicine, Moxibustion, pseudoscience, Bible, polytheism, monotheism, Ashera, female god

159: Jay's Journal

October 07, 2020  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Mark reports on yet another work of Mormon fiction posing as something else with Jay's Journal, Uncle Doug dusts off Mormon Bolshevism with the United Order and Uncle Dan freaks us out with the People of Praise!

Here is the Facebook page for Alden Barrett's brother Scott and his work to repair all the harm done by Jay's Journal-

And here is the hilariously atrocious pilot for Kalamity Kids. You've been warned-

tags / Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal, Beatrice Sparks, Mormonism, fraud, fiction, Satanic Panic, cummual living, socialism, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Orderville, People of Praise Amy Coney Barrett, Catholicism, United States Supreme Court, cult

150: Ley Loons

August 05, 2020  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Dan draws some suspicious lines, Uncle Mark examines the Lamanite Placement Program and Uncle Doug takes us on a 3-hour tour of the Middle East with Acts part II.

This is the official church record of the Oct. 1960 Conference talk by Spencer W. Kimball - "The Day of the Lamanites"

https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1960sa/page/n33/mode/2up

tags / Watch out for woo, New Age, Ley Lines, Vortexes, Mormonism, Indian Placement Program, Indigenous Americans, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Lamanites, racism, white supremacy, genocide, Bible, Book of Acts, Paul