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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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|sublink1=Response to claim: 23 (HB) - The author states that "LDS documents" are "strangely silent" about Joseph Smith's activities between 1820 and 1823
|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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|sublink2=Response to claim: 25 - The author states that Moroni claimed that the golden plates were "buried in the hill Cumorah, just outside the village of Manchester"
|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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|sublink3=Response to claim: 25 - The author states that the angel that appeared to Joseph was originally named "Nephi" instead of "Moroni"
 
|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"
 
|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"
|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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|sublink5=Response to claim: 26, 492n19-20 (HB) - Oliver Cowdery said that the First Vision took place in 1823 when Joseph was in his 17th year
|sublink6=Response to claim: 26, 492n21 (HB) - Does Joseph's brother William associate Moroni's visit with a revival?
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|sublink6=Response to claim: 26, 492n21 (HB) - Joseph's brother William associated Moroni's visit with a revival
|sublink7=Response to claim: 27, 493n23 (HB) - Did George A. Smith merge the First Vision and Moroni's visit?
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|sublink7=Response to claim: 27, 493n23 (HB) - George A. Smith merged the First Vision and Moroni's visit
|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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|sublink8=Response to claim: 27, 493n23 (HB) - George A. Smith merged the First Vision and Moroni's visit
|sublink9=Response to claim: 27 (HB) - Did Joseph engage in "ritual magic and divination"?
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|sublink9=Response to claim: 27, 493n24 (HB) - Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph's mother, said that the First Vision was of the angel in 1823
|sublink10=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Was Joseph Smith a "money digger"?
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|sublink10=Response to claim: 27 (HB) - The author claims that Joseph engaged in "ritual magic and divination"
|sublink11=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Did Joseph use a "peep stone" to search for buried treasure?
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|sublink11=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Joseph Smith was a "money digger"
|sublink12=Response to claim: 29, 494n30 (HB) - Was Joseph's father a "firm believer" in witchcraft and the supernatural?
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|sublink12=Response to claim: 28 (HB) - Joseph used a "peep stone" to search for buried treasure
|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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|sublink13=Response to claim: 29, 494n30 (HB) - Joseph's father was a "firm believer" in witchcraft and the supernatural
|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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|sublink14=Response to claim: 29, 494-5n33-34 (HB) - Martin Harris said that Joseph was associated with a company of money diggers
|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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|sublink15=Response to claim: 29, 495n36 (HB) - Joshua Stafford said that Joseph's family "told marvelous stories about ghosts, hob-goblins, caverns, and various other mysterious matters"
|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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|sublink16=Response to claim: 30, 495n38 (HB) - William Stafford stated that Joseph used a seer stone to see "the spirits in whose charge these treasures were, clothed in ancient dress"
|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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|sublink17=Response to claim: 30, 495n40 (HB) - Joseph Capron stated that Joseph encouraged others to participate in money digging in order to obtain wealth
|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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|sublink18=Response to claim: 31, 495n42 (HB) - William Stafford stated that Joseph believed that the state of the moon determined the best time to obtain treasures
|sublink19=Response to claim: 36 (HB) - The author states that Joseph Smith adapted Masonic rituals for the temple endowment
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|sublink19=Response to claim: 33, 495n48 (HB) - Joshua Stafford said that Joseph showed him a piece of wood from a box of money that had "mysteriously moved back into the hill"
|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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|sublink20=Response to claim: 36 (HB) - The author states that Joseph Smith adapted Masonic rituals for the temple endowment
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|sublink21=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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Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods


A FAIR Analysis of:
One Nation Under Gods
A work by author: Richard Abanes
...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 - web page has since been removed. This link goes to the web archive for the page)

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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 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."

Introduction

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy" (xi-xix PB)

Chapter 1

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" (1-22)

Chapter 2

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry" (23-40)

Chapter 3

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58)

Chapter 4

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book" (59-80)

Chapter 5

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 5: People of Zion" (81-102)

Chapter 6

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 6: No Rest for the Righteous" (103-126)

Chapter 7

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio" (127-144)

Chapter 8

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri" (145-170)

Chapter 9

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom" (171-202)

Chapter 10

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning" (203-224)

Chapter 11

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham" (225-254)

Chapter 12

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars" (255-280)

Chapter 13

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony" (281-310)

Chapter 14

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" (311-328)

Chapter 15

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 15: Making the Transition" (329-354)

Chapter 16

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful" (355-374)

Chapter 17

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?" (375-400)

Chapter 18

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies" (401-436)

Postscript

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Postscript" (437-448) (PB)

Appendix A

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?" (449-458) (PB)

Appendix B

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies" (459-465) (Paperback)

Appendix C

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Appendix C: Recommended Resources" (468-471) (Paperback)

Notes

Summary: Responses to claims made in "Notes" (473-617) (PB)