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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58) | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58) | ||
− | |sublink1=Response to claim: 41, 500 n2-4 (HB) - | + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 41, 500 n2-4 (HB) - Joseph used at least two seer stones |
− | |sublink2=Response to claim: 42, 500n7 (HB) - | + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 42, 500n7 (HB) - Isaac Hale, Emma's father, disapproved of Joseph because of his money digging activities |
− | |sublink3=Response to claim: 44 - | + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 44 - Joseph was pronounced "guilty" of performing illegal activities with his seer stone |
|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" | |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" | ||
|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"? | |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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|sublink11=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - The author refers to "a subsequent version of Smith's ever-changing tale..." | |sublink11=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - The author refers to "a subsequent version of Smith's ever-changing tale..." | ||
|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? | |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? | ||
− | |sublink13=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - | + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - It is claimed that "all of the religious aspects" of Joseph's story were added later |
|sublink14=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph Smith claim that the moon was inhabited? | |sublink14=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph Smith claim that the moon was inhabited? | ||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph teach the notion that "Blacks, Indians, and other people of color are cursed spirits"? | |sublink15=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph teach the notion that "Blacks, Indians, and other people of color are cursed spirits"? |
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 - web page has since been removed. This link goes to the web archive for the page)
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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