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{{:Question: Was the Kirtland Safety Society a "wildcat bank"?}}
{{:Question: Was the establishment of the Kirtland Safety Society "anti-bank" illegal?}}
{{:Question: Did Joseph Smith mislead investors in the Kirtland Safety Society by collecting boxes full of sand with money placed on top, in order to make it appear that the bank had more hard money than it did?}}
{{:Question: Was Warren Parrish signing new notes for the Kirland Safety Society even after the bank had fallen into difficulty?}}
{{:Question: Did Joseph Smith claim that the Kirtland Safety Society was established by a revelation from God?}}

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|link=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2009-fair-conference/2009-the-kirtland-safety-society
|author=R. McKay White
|authorlink=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/authors/white-mckay
|title=The Kirtland Safety Society
|date=August 2009
|publication=Proceedings of the 2009 FAIR Conference
|summary=The Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company is an important part of our church history, having, as it did, a significant role in the Kirtland apostasy. Yet, to date, it has received much more attention from anti-Mormons, or “the other guys”, than from our own scholars and apologists. As a result, there are a large number of myths about the Safety Society that the other guys use to criticize Joseph Smith and destroy faith.
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Today, I’m going to lay the episode wide open. We’ll see the myths that have sprung from the creative minds of interested parties, the facts will be laid bare, and in doing so, we’ll see why the Prophet deserves a good name.
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