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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" (1-22) | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" (1-22) | ||
+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 6 - Did "most" of Joseph Smith's contemporaries consider him "a charlatan from a family of illiterate wanderers"? | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 9-11 - Did the Smith family eventually give up on any sort of "legitimate" employment to become lazy money-diggers? | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 15 - Do local newspapers show that no revival occurred in 1820 in the area of Palmyra-Manchester, New York? | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 15 - Did Joseph incorporate a documented 1824 revival into his First Vision story? | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 15 - Why does Joseph's 1832 First Vision account state that he was 15 rather than 14 years old? | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 15 - Why does Joseph's 1832 account state that he only saw Jesus without mentioning God the Father? | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 15 - Was the main message of the 1832 account was the forgiveness of Joseph's sins? | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 15 - Why does the 1832 account omit information about "God condemning Christian churches as corrupt?" | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 16 - Did LDS leaders only begin teaching that Joseph saw both Jesus and God the Father in the 1870s-80s? | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 16-17 - Why did Orson Pratt say that the two personages that appeared to Joseph were angels? | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 17 - Why did Church historian Andrew Jenson say that "The angel again forbade Joseph to join any of these churches?" | ||
+ | |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?" | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 18 - Did the 1824 revival cause Joseph's mother, sister and two brothers to join the Presbyterian church? | ||
+ | |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? | ||
+ | |sublink15=Response to claim: 18 - Why did no publications from the Palmyra or Manchester areas in the 1830s mention Joseph's vision? | ||
+ | |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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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" (311-328) | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" (311-328) | ||
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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful" (355-374) | |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 "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies" (459-465) (Paperback) | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies" (459-465) (Paperback) | ||
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Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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...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.
—The author, posted on his website "ERRATA FOR ONE NATION UNDER GODS" (Dec. 2008)
FAIR'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 FAIR 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 within the FAIRwiki. 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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