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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 62 (HB,PB) - Were the Lamanites were cursed with a "skin of blackness"? | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 62 (HB,PB) - Were the "so-called American Indians" considered a "filthy, and a loathsome people"? | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 63, 510n15 (HB); 508n15 (PB) - Was a "dark-skinned appearance" actually a curse traceable to a failure to follow God? | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 63 (HB,PB) - Was Joseph inspired by the "mound builders" to write the Book of Mormon? | ||
| + | |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" | ||
| + | |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.'" | ||
| + | |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? | ||
| + | |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? | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 70-71 (HB,PB) - Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the Apocrypha? | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 70, 513n52 (HB); 511n52 (PB) - Were several Bible stories reworked for the Book of Mormon? | ||
| + | |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? | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 73, 514n66 (HB); 512n66 (PB) - The 1830 Book of Mormon contains many grammatical errors | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 74 (HB,PB) - Is the name "Sam" in the Book of Mormon "out-of-place"? | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 74, 514n67 - Is the French word "adieu" out-of-place in the Book of Mormon? | ||
| + | |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"? | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 74 (HB, PB) - The fact is that Arabia has never had bountiful supplies of either fruit or honey" | ||
| + | |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? | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |sublink21=Response to claim: 514n73 (HB); 512n73 (PB) - "Mormon apologist John Sorenson has suggested that Smith mistranslated numerous words from the Book of Mormon" | ||
| + | |sublink22=Response to claim: 75, 514n75 (HB); 512n75 (PB) - Is there no archaeological evidence to support the Book of Mormon? | ||
| + | |sublink23=Response to claim: 75, 515n77 (HB); 512n77 (PB) - The Smithsonian Institution issued a statement refuting "any claims of BOM historicity" | ||
| + | |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? | ||
| + | |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"? | ||
| + | |sublink26=Response to claim: 75 - Thomas Stuart Ferguson was an "icon" of Latter-day Saint scholarship | ||
| + | |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 | ||
| + | |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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Contents
- 1 Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
- 1.1 Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
- 1.1.1
- 1.1.2 Introduction
- 1.1.3 Chapter 1
- 1.1.4 Chapter 2
- 1.1.5 Chapter 3
- 1.1.6 Chapter 4
- 1.1.7 Chapter 5
- 1.1.8 Chapter 6
- 1.1.9 Chapter 7
- 1.1.10 Chapter 8
- 1.1.11 Chapter 9
- 1.1.12 Chapter 10
- 1.1.13 Chapter 11
- 1.1.14 Chapter 12
- 1.1.15 Chapter 13
- 1.1.16 Chapter 14
- 1.1.17 Chapter 15
- 1.1.18 Chapter 16
- 1.1.19 Chapter 17
- 1.1.20 Chapter 18
- 1.1.21 Postscript
- 1.1.22 Appendix A
- 1.1.23 Appendix B
- 1.1.24 Appendix C
- 1.1.25 Notes
- 1.1 Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
| Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Use of sources |
...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)
Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
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 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 FairMormon Answers Wiki. 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."