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Date: April 13, 2021 10:25AM
Only learning about Brent F. Ashworth in the Netflix doc, I was surprised he was still LDS. As lawyer, intelligent and educated, well spoken, and a dealer in Mormon historical documents, wouldn't you think he would have, like Hofmann himself, figured it out?
In this interview, Brent gives his theory of Mark's vendetta against the Church - that one of his ancestors was excommunicated for polygamy for which he had been given permission, after the 2nd Manifesto. As evil as Hofmann was, he was still smart enough, very early on, to recognize the falsity of the Church. That Brent would find motive for Hofmann's duplicity in such a silly reflection illustrates the extent to which a believer will find any reason other than the logical one to explain someone's disbelief.
"Brent: 'It’s a letter to himself, like “I learned today,” kind of like, “here’s the evidence.” This is the motive, I think, for murder and for destroying the church. He’s going to pay back the Church for what they did to his family. Because this was a real black mark. I remember when his mother brought that suit over on his birthday, and we were talking, she even brought it up, about her father being exed as a mission president. Well, that would be a really embarrassing thing. Here he is, a mission president to Samoa and they [excommunicate] him. Mark is saying here, this was all authorized. A temple worker, Joseph Summerhays, who was authorized by Joseph F. Smith to do it.' "
https://gospeltangents.com/2021/04/hofmanns-motive-against-church/