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| − | |author=Richard Abanes
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| − | {{Epigraph|...after seven years, FAIR has been able to raise only twenty-seven objections to a book weighing in at 651 pages (471 pages of main text + nearly 150 pages of endnotes + bibliography + indexes). Particularly interesting is how most these so-called errors-mistakes (minus the ones too petty to even address) have all been resolved in the paperback version.''
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| − | —The author, posted on his [http://abanes.com/Errata2.html website "ERRATA FOR ONE NATION UNDER GODS"] (Dec. 2008)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index
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| − | |subject=Page-by-page responses to claims made in ''One Nation Under Gods''
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| − | |summary=FairMormon's original review of ''One Nation Under Gods'' was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FairMormon reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.) This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy" (xi-xix PB)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 1
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" (1-22)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 6 - Did "most" of Joseph Smith's contemporaries consider him "a charlatan from a family of illiterate wanderers"?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 9-11 - Did the Smith family eventually give up on any sort of "legitimate" employment to become lazy money-diggers?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 15 - Do local newspapers show that no revival occurred in 1820 in the area of Palmyra-Manchester, New York?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 15 - Did Joseph incorporate a documented 1824 revival into his First Vision story?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 15 - Why does Joseph's 1832 First Vision account state that he was 15 rather than 14 years old?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 15 - Why does Joseph's 1832 account state that he only saw Jesus without mentioning God the Father?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 15 - Was the main message of the 1832 account was the forgiveness of Joseph's sins?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 15 - Why does the 1832 account omit information about "God condemning Christian churches as corrupt?"
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 16 - Did LDS leaders only begin teaching that Joseph saw both Jesus and God the Father in the 1870s-80s?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 16-17 - Why did Orson Pratt say that the two personages that appeared to Joseph were angels?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 17 - Why did Church historian Andrew Jenson say that "The angel again forbade Joseph to join any of these churches?"
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 18 - Why does John Taylor only call the Father and Son "two glorious personages" in 1850 without mentioning the phrase "this is my beloved son?"
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 18 - Did the 1824 revival cause Joseph's mother, sister and two brothers to join the Presbyterian church?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 18, 487n62-63 (PB) - Did the 1824 revival actually cause Joseph to join a Baptist church, contrary to his instructions in the First Vision?
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 18 - Why did no publications from the Palmyra or Manchester areas in the 1830s mention Joseph's vision?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 22, 490 n.78 (HB) - Didn't Lucy Mack Smith say that the first vision was that of a "holy Angel"?
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 2
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry" (23-40)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 23 (HB) - Why are "LDS documents...strangely silent" about Joseph Smith's activities between 1820 and 1823?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 25 - Did Moroni claim that the golden plates were "buried in the hill Cumorah, just outside the village of Manchester?"
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 25 - The author states that the angel that appeared to Joseph originally named "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 25, 492n17 (HB) 490n17 (PB) - "Obviously, if the angel in Smith's room spoke about Moroni, then he certainly could not have been Moroni"
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 26, 492n19-20 (HB) - Did Oliver Cowdery say that the First Vision took place in 1823 when Joseph was in his 17th year?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 26, 492n21 (HB) - Does Joseph's brother William associate Moroni's visit with a revival?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 27, 493n23 (HB) - Did George A. Smith merge the First Vision and Moroni's visit?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 27, 493n24 (HB) - Did Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph's mother, say that the First Vision was of the angel in 1823?
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 27 (HB) - Did Joseph engage in "ritual magic and divination"?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Was Joseph Smith a "money digger"?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Did Joseph use a "peep stone" to search for buried treasure?
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 29, 494n30 (HB) - Was Joseph's father a "firm believer" in witchcraft and the supernatural?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 29, 494-5n33-34 (HB) - Did Martin Harris say that Joseph was associated with a company of money diggers?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 29, 495n36 (HB) - Did Joshua Stafford say that Joseph's family "told marvelous stories about ghosts, hob-goblins, caverns, and verious other mysterious matters"
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 30, 495n38 (HB) - Did William Stafford state that Joseph used a seer stone to see "the spirits in whose charge these treasures were, clothed in ancient dress"?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 30, 495n40 (HB) - Did Joseph Capron state that Joseph encouraged others to participate in money digging in order to obtain wealth?
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| − | |sublink17=Response to claim: 31, 495n42 (HB) - Did William Stafford state that Joseph believed that the state of the moon determined the best time to obtain treasures?
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| − | |sublink18=Response to claim: 33, 495n48 (HB) - Did Joshua Stafford say that Joseph showed him a piece of wood from a box of money that had "mysteriously moved back into the hill"?
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| − | |sublink19=Response to claim: 36 (HB) - The author states that Joseph Smith adapted Masonic rituals for the temple endowment
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| − | |sublink20=Response to claim: 40 (HB) - Does the Book of Mormon denounce Freemasonry by condemning "secret combinations," "secret signs," and "secret oaths"?
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 41, 500 n2-4 (HB) - Did Joseph use at least two seer stones?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 42, 500n7 (HB) - Did Isaac Hale, Emma's father, disapprove of Joseph because of his money digging activities?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 44 - Was Joseph pronounced "guilty" of performing illegal activities with his seer stone?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 46, 503 n.18 - Regarding Joseph's "trial," Hugh Nibley said, "If this court record is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith"
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 47, 503n22 (HB) - Did Joseph realize that money-digging was only earning him $14 a month, and that this was "not nearly enough to support a family"?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 47, 503n23 (HB) - Is it true that Joseph initially "attached no religious significance" to the "golden book" that he told people he would be retrieving?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 48, 503n25 (HB) - Did Joseph decide to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 503n25 (HB) - Joseph tried to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in Canada
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 48, 503-4n29-32 (HB) - Was one of Joseph's early descriptions of Moroni that of a "bloody ghost" with his throat cut?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 50-51, n34-36 (HB) - Did a "toad-like" creature which "assumed the appearance of a man" and struck Joseph on the side of his head, prevent him from retrieving the gold plates?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - The author refers to "a subsequent version of Smith's ever-changing tale..."
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - Was it "widely understood" in the 1800s the Joseph located the plates by using his seer stone to see where they had been deposited?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - Is it true that "all of the religious aspects" of Joseph's story were added later?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph Smith claim that the moon was inhabited?
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph teach the notion that "Blacks, Indians, and other people of color are cursed spirits"?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 53, 505-506n47 (HB) 53, 503-504n47 (PB) - The author states: "After all, no one had actually seen the plates, nor would anyone ever see them"
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| − | |sublink17=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did the witnesses only see the plates through "visionary experiences"?
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| − | |sublink18=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did the eight witnesses only "see" the plates as long as they were covered with a cloth of some kind?
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| − | |sublink19=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did Martin Harris say that none of the eight witnesses ever saw the plates, and that he only handled them in a box or under a cloth?
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| − | |sublink20=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Joseph Smith claimed that the Three Witnesses saw the plates in a vision
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| − | |sublink21=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did David Whitmer say that none of the Three Witnesses ever actually physically saw or handled the plates?
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| − | |sublink22=Response to claim: 508n59 (HB) - Do Latter-day Saint try to discredit statements of Charles Anthon
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| − | |sublink23=Response to claim: 55, 508n60 (HB) 55, 506n60 (PB) - Have scholars have declared that there is no language called "Reformed Egyptian"?
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| − | |sublink24=Response to claim: 55, 508n62 (HB) - Did Joseph use his "peep stone" to translate the Book of Mormon?
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| − | |sublink25=Response to claim: 56, 508n63-65 (HB) - Did Emma Smith and David Whitmer confirm that Joseph translated using his seer stone in a hat?
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 4
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book" (59-80)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 62 (HB,PB) - Were the Lamanites were cursed with a "skin of blackness"?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 62 (HB,PB) - Were the "so-called American Indians" considered a "filthy, and a loathsome people"?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 63, 510n15 (HB); 508n15 (PB) - Was a "dark-skinned appearance" actually a curse traceable to a failure to follow God?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 63 (HB,PB) - Was Joseph inspired by the "mound builders" to write the Book of Mormon?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 64, 511n24 (HB); 509n24 (PB) - Did Joseph's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, say that Joseph "skillfully composed yarns about Native Americans"
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 66, 511n31 (HB); 509n31 (PB) - According to Alexander Campbell, the Book of Mormon "commented on nearly 'every error and almost every truth discussed in New York for the last ten years.'"
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 68, 512n41-43 (HB); 510n41-43 (PB) - Did Joseph copy text from other contemporary works into the Book of Mormon, such as Josiah Priest's The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 68-70, 512n44-45 (HB); 510n44-45 (PB) - Does the Book of Mormon contain parallels to Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews?
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 70-71 (HB,PB) - Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the Apocrypha?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 70, 513n52 (HB); 511n52 (PB) - Were several Bible stories reworked for the Book of Mormon?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 72, 514n61 (HB); 512n61 (PB) - Could the "wicked character" named "Lemuel" have been derived from the name of the Smith's landlord, Lemuel Durfee?
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 73, 514n62 (HB) 512n62 (PB) - The names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" could have been taken from the "Comoros" Islands off the coast of Africa
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 73, 514n66 (HB); 512n66 (PB) - The 1830 Book of Mormon contains many grammatical errors
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 74 (HB,PB) - Is the name "Sam" in the Book of Mormon "out-of-place"?
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 74, 514n67 - Is the French word "adieu" out-of-place in the Book of Mormon?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 74, 514n69 (HB); 512n69 (PB) - Why has the Book of Mormon had "nearly 4,000" textual changes despite being declared by Joseph Smith to be the "most correct of any book on earth"?
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| − | |sublink17=Response to claim: 74, 514n70-71 (HB); 512n70-71 (PB) - The Book of Mormon mentions synagoges "after the manner of the Jews," despite Lehi's group leaving Jerusalem before the Babylonian captivity
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| − | |sublink18=Response to claim: 74 (HB, PB) - The fact is that Arabia has never had bountiful supplies of either fruit or honey"
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| − | |sublink19=Response to claim: 74, 514n72(HB); 512n72(PB) - How could the Book of Mormon mention a "continually flowing" river that runs to the Red Sea, when there is no such river in Arabia?
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| − | |sublink20=Response to claim: 74, 514n73 (HB); 512n73 (PB) - Why does the Book of Mormon mention animals such as cows, oxen, asses, horses, and goats as existing in the New World 600 years before Christ
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| − | |sublink21=Response to claim: 514n73 (HB); 512n73 (PB) - "Mormon apologist John Sorenson has suggested that Smith mistranslated numerous words from the Book of Mormon"
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| − | |sublink22=Response to claim: 75, 514n75 (HB); 512n75 (PB) - Is there no archaeological evidence to support the Book of Mormon?
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| − | |sublink23=Response to claim: 75, 515n77 (HB); 512n77 (PB) - The Smithsonian Institution issued a statement refuting "any claims of BOM historicity"
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| − | |sublink24=Response to claim: 75, 515n78 - Is is true that "Mormon scholars, such as Dee F. Green," have admitted that Book of Mormon archaeology does not exist?
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| − | |sublink25=Response to claim: 75, 515n79 - Did a lack of Book of Mormon archaeological evidence cause B.H. Roberts and Thomas Stuart Ferguson to "abandon their faith in the Book of Mormon"?
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| − | |sublink26=Response to claim: 75 - Thomas Stuart Ferguson was an "icon" of Latter-day Saint scholarship
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| − | |sublink27=Response to claim: 76, 515-6n81-84 - B.H. Roberts concluded that Joseph Smith was inspired by Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews
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| − | |sublink28=Response to claim: 77-80, 516n88-90 (HB) 514n88-90 (PB) - Thomas Stuart Ferguson wrote a letter stating "Perhaps you and I have been spoofed by Joseph Smith..."
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 5: People of Zion" (81-102)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 83, 517n2 (HB) - The book states that the "Mormon church" was formally organized in New York
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 517n2 (HB) - The official name of the Church's changed from The Church of Christ to The Church of the Latter Day Saints and then to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 86, n22-23 (HB) - Did "anti-Christendom" become a "defining feature of Mormonism?"
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 86, n24-25 - Does the Church teach that "Satan sits in the place of God in Christianity"?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 87, 517n26 - "Smith's long association with occultism also helped draw spiritual 'seekers' into Mormonism"
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 89, 518n47 - A revelation changed to conceal Oliver Cowdery's use of a divining rod
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 89, 518n49 - Did Joseph give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty"?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 89 - Did Joseph's family own a "magic dagger"?
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 89-90, 519n53-57 - Did Joseph's family own "three homemade magical parchments"?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 89 - Did Joseph have a "Jupiter talisman" with him the day he died?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 519n58 (PB) - The author states: In 1998, Apostle David B. Haight "reinvoked the astrological principle that people should 'do nothing without the assistance of the moon'"
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 92 - There is "no question" that Mormonism began as a "doomsday sect led by an end-time prophet"
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 95, 522n74 (HB) - Did Martin Harris claim that "all temporal and spiritual power would be given over to The Prophet Joseph Smith"?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 99, 521n97 - Joseph claimed that his revision of the Bible..."re-inserted a great deal of material that supposedly had been excised from it by corrupt and evil men"
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 99, n100 - "Mormon high priests possessed the authority to bestow salvation"
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 104 - "Mormons, who commonly rejected analytical thought in favor of supernatural experience"
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 521n2 - A distorted version of the Three Degrees of Glory
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 105, 522n12 - Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and the Morning Star "haranguing" non-Mormons by threatening them with "imminent destruction" if they did not repent?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 105, 522n13 - Did Joseph Smith define the "wicked" as anyone who rejected Latter-day Saint beliefs?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 108, 523n26 - Did Latter-day Saints alter their perception as being "adopted into Israel" to being "literal" descendants of Israel because they "were going to end up second-class Israelites"?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 108-109, 523n27-29 - Do Latter-day Saint claim today that they are literal descendants of Israel?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 110, 523n33 - Were missionaries sent to preach only to "other Caucasians"?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 110, 524n35 - Was the Latter-day Saint periodical The Evening and Morning Star claiming that Missouri "rightfully belonged to Mormons?"
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 116 - In the revelation that Joseph received on August 2, 1833, was it evident that "God also was unaware of the Missouri tragedy"?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 116, 525n63-64 - Did Joseph receive a revelation which "commanded Mormons to disobey secular law and civil leaders not conforming to the commandments of God"?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 117 - "Their only comfort was the hope that Christ would soon deliver them"
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 122, 526n87 - Did Joseph receive a revelation that Zion would be redeemed by September 1836?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 123, 526n91 - Did Joseph restore ceremonies found in ancient Judaism and early Christianity in order to "distance" the Church from "corrupt Christendom"?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 123 - "Joseph knew that nothing short of a spectacular closing to the dedication week would be acceptable to the crowds..."
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 124, 526n100 - Did Joseph believe that the ten lost tribes were at the North Pole?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 124, 526n101 - Did Joseph believe that the ten lost tribes were located on a planet by the North Star?
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 127 epigraph, 527n1 (PB) - David Whitmer said that Joseph Smith claimed that "some revelations are of God: some revelations are of man: and some revelations are of the devil"
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 127-8, 528n5 (PB) - Did Joseph say that "Fifty-six years should wind up the scene" before the second coming of Jesus Christ?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 128-9, 528n10 (PB) - Were the revelations published in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants "amended, added to, excised, and in some cases assigned different historical settings"?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 129, 529n14-15, n17 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith break Ohio law by performing marriages?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 129, 529n16 (PB) - Was Kirtland, as Fawn Brodie claimed, "full of converts who had left behind them spouses who could not be persuaded to join the church"?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 529n16 (PB) - "LDS leaders/counselors commonly encourage divorce when the spouse of a faithful Mormon forsakes the faith"
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 130, 530n22 (PB) - Did Levi Lewis claim that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 131, 530n23-24 (PB) - Were Latter-day Saint men encouraged to take plural wives "of the Lamanites and Nephites" in order to make them "white, delightsome and just"?
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 132 (PB) - "Although Smith never took any Lamanites as wives, he did begin establishing what would gradually become a fairly large harem of young girls and women"
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 132, 530-531n29-36 (PB) - Joseph's first polyamous marriage was with Fanny Alger
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 133, 531n37-40 (PB) - Did William McLellin report that Joseph and Fanny were found "in the barn together alone...?
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 133, n42 (PB) - Was the inclusion of the statement on marriage in the 1835 D&C was "an attempt to cover-up the Smith-Alger affair" as the author claims?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 135, 531n45 (PB) - Did land specuation in Kirtland "consume" the "thoughts of nearly every Saint, including Smith"?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 135, 531n46-48 (PB) - Joseph is claimed to have owned one hundred and forty acres of land near the Kirtland temple lot in addition to four acres of business property
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 531n48 (PB) - Was Isaac McWithy brought before the church's High Council on charges of "insolence" after refusing to sell his land to Joseph Smith for $3000?
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 135 (PB) - "Smith decided to solve his economic dilemma by establishing a bank for the purpose of land speculation"
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| − | |sublink17=Response to claim: 136, 532n51 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith claim that "God told him" to establish the bank in Kirtland?
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| − | |sublink18=Response to claim: 136, 532n54 (PB) - Was the Kirtland anti-bank backed only by boxes "filled with 'sand,lead, old iron, stone, and combustibles" as claimed by Fawn Brodie?
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| − | |sublink19=Response to claim: 136, 532n56 (PB) - Is it true that "everyone's pockets bulged with bills" in Kirtland after the bank was established as asserted by Fawn Brodie?
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri" (145-170)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 147 - The author claims that "Twenty-first century Mormonism" promotes the idea that Cain, Abel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah lived in Missouri
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 150, 535n18 (PB) - Did Oliver Cowdery accuse Joseph of having a "dirty, nasty, filthy affair" with Fanny Alger?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 151, 537n35-36 (PB) - Did Sidney Rigdon give public approval to the Danites during a speech he delivered on June 17, 1838?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 537n30 (PB) - "Such historical revisionism is typical of Mormon historians, who must at all costs, preserve the integrity of early Mormon leaders"
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 152, 538n39 (PB) - Did Joseph write in his private journal that he was aware of the Danite's purpose?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 155 - "The Missourians actually seemed committed to continuing their pursuit of a peaceful co-existence with the Mormons"
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 156 - Did Latter-day Saints plan to "take over" by voting?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 156-157, 539n61 (PB) - the Saints were "horse thieves, liars, counterfeiters, and dupes"
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 159 - According to the author, after driving the Saints from their homes, Bogart started to threaten the Saints "in their own territory"
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 167 - "the evidence clearly revealed that Joseph had directed most, if not all, of the illegal activities in which the Saints had been engaged"
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 12
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars" (255-280)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 256 - Was Brigham considered a "king" over the territory?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage"
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 260, 569 (HB) 567n16 (PB) - Did Brigham Young call for blood atonement in order to punish Washington politicians?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 266, 570n39 (HB) 568n38 (PB) - Did Heber C. Kimball promise that after the Civil War ended, that Latter-day Saints would become the "sole rulers over every other government"?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 267, 570-1n39-47 (HB) 568-9n39-47 (PB) - Was Joseph Smith's "Civil War prophecy" a false prophecy since "in 1832 a civil war beginning with South Carolina would have surprised no one"?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 269, 571n48-49 (HB) 569n48-49 (PB) - If the Civil War prophecy is true, then why is it that war was not brought to "all nations" as Joseph said it would be?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 269, 571n50 (HB) 569n50 (PB) - The Civil War did not result in slaves rising up against their masters as the prophecy predicts
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 270, 571n51 (HB) 569n51 (PB) - Sandra Tanner said that the prophecy "was probably inspired by the fact that South Carolina had already rebelled before the revelation was given"
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 270 - "Because the Saints saw the Civil War as a fulfillment of prophecy, its horrors actually brought them some degree of emotional satisfaction and comfort"
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 270, 571n52 (HB) 569n52 (PB) - Why did Orson Hyde say: "Do I believe that the United States will be divided? yes, I do; and the prayers of all the Saints throughout the world should be to that effect"?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 271 - Was the death of "Col. Johnston," in the Civil War (of "Johnston's army" in Utah) on April 6 interpreted by Latter-day Saints as a sign of divine judgment?
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 271, 572n54 (HB) 570n54 (PB) - Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, who replaced Governor Cummings in 1861 beaten by Latter-day Saints?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 271, 572n55 (HB) 570n55 (PB) - Did Brigham Young state that too much education would be damaging to children?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 273, 572n59 (HB) 570n59 (PB) - Did Heber C. Kimball say that the United States government was "dead, thank God, dead"?
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| − | |sublink15=Response to claim: 276 - The author states that when the Civil War ended, "the Mormons...had not sent a single soldier into the conflict, but instead had prayed for Christ's return and the establishment of Zion"
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| − | |sublink16=Response to claim: 278 - "Blacks were emancipated (1860s), which in less than a hundred years would result in a backlash against Mormonism's racist spirituality"
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 13
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| − | |subject=Chapter 13
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony" (281-310)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 14
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| − | |subject=Chapter 14
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" (311-328)
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| − | |link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Index/Chapter 15
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| − | |subject=Chapter 15
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 15: Making the Transition" (329-354)
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| − | |sublink1=Response to claim: 331, 591n2 (PB) - Did the number of plural marriages jump "nearly five-fold" immediately after Utah gained statehood?
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| − | |sublink2=Response to claim: 332 - Did Reed Smoot take an oath of vengeance against the United States because of their failure to come to the aid of the Saints when they were being persecuted?
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| − | |sublink3=Response to claim: 334 - Did the concept of revenge play a "very prominent role" in early Latter-day Saints' beliefs?
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| − | |sublink4=Response to claim: 334, 592n10 (PB) - In the 1800s, did Latter-day Saints "glorify vengeance" through the singing of hymns?
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| − | |sublink5=Response to claim: 335 - Were Latter-day Saints who served in positions in the U.S. government hindered by having taken an "oath of vengeance"?
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| − | |sublink6=Response to claim: 335-336 - Did the "oath of vengeance" require the Latter-day Saints instruct their descendants to take vengeance upon the U.S. government?
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| − | |sublink7=Response to claim: 336 - Do LDS church authorities believe that "non-Mormons are unfit to rule" and that Latter-day Saints are the only ones fit to rule the world?
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| − | |sublink8=Response to claim: 336, 593n17 - Did Church president Joseph F. Smith defend his "illegal cohabitation with five wives" during Senate testimony?
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| − | |sublink9=Response to claim: 337, 593n20 - Did Joseph F. Smith authorize polygamous marriages in Mexico and request that the records stay there so that they wouldn't be found during a search by U.S. officials?
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| − | |sublink10=Response to claim: 339, 593n32 - Did Joseph F. Smith admit that he had broken the laws of the land and the laws of God?
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| − | |sublink11=Response to claim: 341, 594n48-50 - Did Reed Smoot lie that he had never heard a discussion of plural marriage in his meetings with the apostles?
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| − | |sublink12=Response to claim: 343, 594n54 - What was the "Second Manifesto" issued by Joseph F. Smith?
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| − | |sublink13=Response to claim: 351, n91 - Does the Church teach the the current practice of monogamy is only temporary and that polygamy will be reinstated when Christ returns?
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| − | |sublink14=Response to claim: 353 - Do Latter-day Saints have "underlying white supremacist beliefs"?
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful" (355-374)
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| − | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?" (375-400)
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