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Latest revision as of 12:32, 13 April 2024
Criticism of Mormonism
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- Analysis of articles critical of Mormonism
- Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
- Analysis of videos and films critical of Mormonism
- Analysis of websites critical of Mormonism
- Analysis of online documents critical of Mormonism
Analysis of articles critical of Mormonism
Summary: FairMormon analyzes and offers a claim-by-claim analysis and response to articles critical of Mormonism.
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- Response to "Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism", a work by author: Ronald V. Huggins
- Response to "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904", a work by author D. Michael Quinn
- Response to "Reinventing Lamanite Identity", a work by Brent Lee Metcalfe
Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
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- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton
- Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
- Response to claims made in "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 1) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 2) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in "Archaeology and the Book of Mormon" by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism by Richard Abanes
- Response to claims made in "Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows" by Will Bagley
- Response to claims made in "Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique" by Dan Vogel
- Response to claims made in "By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri" by Charles Larson
- Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism by Ed Decker
- Response to claims made in Deconstructing Mormonism by Thomas Riskas
- Response to claims made in Do Christians Believe in Three Gods by RBC Ministries
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
- Review of claims made in In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
- Response to claims made in "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church" by Simon G. Southerton
- Response to claims made in "Mormonism 101" by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
- Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked by R. Philip Roberts
- Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
- Response to Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, a work by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
- Response to claims made in Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage" by George D. Smith
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
- Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer
- Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
- Studies of the Book of Mormon by B.H. Roberts
- Response to the "Book of Lehi" by Christopher Marc Nemelka
- Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
- Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Normal L. Geisler
- Response to claims made in The God Makers: A Shocking Exposé of What the Mormon Church REALLY Believes by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt
- Response to claims made in The Mysteries of Godliness by David John Buerger
- Notes on The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition
- Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaf
- Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshon
- Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- Response to claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- A review of claims made in "Understanding Mormon Disbelief" by the Open Stories Foundation
- Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius
Analysis of videos and films critical of Mormonism
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- Response to 8: The Mormon Proposition
- Big Love's episode "Outer Darkness"
- Response to The Bible vs. Joseph Smith
- Response to The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon
- Response to Religulous
- Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith or Search for the Truth DVD
- Response to September Dawn
- Response to the 1982 anti-Mormon film The God Makers
- An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)
- A review of claims made in "Understanding Mormon Disbelief" by the Open Stories Foundation
- A review of claims made in Dr. Robert Ritner's three-episode interview with John Dehlin
Analysis of websites critical of Mormonism
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- Critical websites initially presenting themselves as being run by active or believing Church members
- Online documents by disaffected Church members and ex-Mormons
- Online documents from non-Mormon sources
- Countercult ministries
Analysis of online documents critical of Mormonism
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- Response to claims made in "A Letter to an Apostle" by Paul A. Douglas
- Response to claims made in "For my Wife and Children" by Anonymous
- Response to claims made in "Letter to a CES Director" and "Debunking FAIR's Debunking" by Jeremy Runnells
- Response to claims made by "The Foundation for LDS Scholarship"
- Response to "Questions and Answers" on Mormon Stories (revision 25 June 2014)
Anti-Mormon
Summary: Some critics of the Church object to the use of the term "anti-Mormon." They do not like to be referred to as "anti-Mormons," and deny that their books, speeches, blogs or videos are "anti-Mormon." Such critics often insist that the term "anti-Mormon" is unfair because they are not "against" Mormons, but only write and act as they do because they "love" Mormons or Mormon investigators and want to bring them to the truth.- Origin and history of the term "anti-Mormon"—
Brief Summary: The term "anti-Mormon" was originally used by opponents of the early 19th century Church to describe themselves. A collection of quotes from publications showing the early use of the term "anti-Mormon" (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗
- Origin and history of the term "anti-Mormon"—