I don't like the hymn "Praise to the Man" okay because it's confusing to a lot of people from
the outside looking in. If you don't know what "Praise to the Man" is that's a tribute hymn to
Prophet Joseph Smith. It's controversial because it makes us look like we worship Joseph Smith
which we don't. We don't. But when you have a hymn called "Praise to the Man" I mean obviously it's
going to be a little confusing. Anyways... [Intro] Hey guys welcome back to Saints Unscripted it's me
and Sam today. What's up everyone? And it's gonna be an interesting episode because we're gonna
we're gonna talk about we're going to discuss a very common question or sometimes accusation
uh against or about Latter-day Saints and uh and it's: Are Latter-day Saint kids or people...
members brainwashed? Okay I've definitely heard this before and in fact well I served my mission
in Oklahoma City and I heard it all the time. People were like you are super brainwashed like
don't talk to me I'm like I'm nice I'm sorry you feel that way. Well what we did is we so we went
to debate.org where there was this question that was debated actually it was about missionaries are
Latter-day Saint missionaries brainwashed? But we took some of the responses from people there
and we're going to talk about them and see if they
hold any water or not. So I'll start off I'll read one to you. Let me know what you think. Awesome.
And we'll find out if we're brainwashed which I guess if we are brainwashed would we even know?
Is there any point to this episode? Okay I will make the point first like
I don't think we're gonna change anybody's minds here. You know what maybe not but we could offer
some new insights into our experience growing up in the church and maybe our exposure to
other religions and other ideas and and how that we ultimately still came back
to where we are now. Generally I feel like if you think we're brainwashed
you're probably gonna keep thinking we're brainwashed no matter what we say
which maybe means that you're brainwashed. What? Didn't see that coming but I don't know you can
think that if you want like that's fine we're going to go over some stuff and talk about it.
Yeah but like as we read these try and have an open mind we have this whole channel so that we
can discuss stuff like this and try to unpack it and maybe make people who aren't familiar with
the church more comfortable with it because we honestly love it and we're excited to talk about
it so. A lot of questions like these come down to like semantics and what your definition of
brainwashing is. I guess that's true. I was doing some research on it and actually on
this debate.org thing and somebody was like the definition of being brainwashed is like you know
what they do in like communist regimes and like waterboarding people and indoctrinating them in
like camps and all this stuff for years against their will and anyways... I have
a terrible joke I don't know if I should say it like we don't waterboard but we do baptize.
Ah that was actually good. We do. It's not torture it's a very important
covenant with Jesus Christ. Water is involved. I guess efy is a church camp
where... We are really not helping. We're not. Okay let's get to this. Let's dive in.