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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 282, 572n8 (PB) - Joseph approved a "pretend marriage" between his plural wife Sarah Ann Whitney and Joseph Kingsbury | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 282, 572n8 (PB) - Joseph wrote a "revealing letter" to Sarah Ann Whitney's parents in which he invited them "to bring their daughter to visit him" | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 283, 572n11 (PB) - Joseph stated: "What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one" | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 284 (PB) - Many of Joseph's plural wives teenagers | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 285, 575n21 (HB) 573n21 (PB) - "Elohim and Heavenly Mother made countless spirit babies via celestial sex" | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 285, 574n25 (PB) - "Earth, by the way, in this Mormon scenario, was fashioned as part of a joint creative project supervised by the most faithful of Heavenly Father's spiritual progeny" | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 286, 574n26 (PB) - Latter-day Saints believe that God the Father is a "polygamous god" | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 286 (PB) - Do Latter-day Saints believe that God the Father is "the god of this planet"? | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 286, 575n29 (PB) - Latter-day Saints believe that our mortal life is similar to what God the Father had to go through in order to become God | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 287 (PB) - "More spirit children means more power, which in turn pushes a Mormon male further up the hierarchical ladder of gods in our universe" | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 287, 575n38(PB) - Latter-day Saints do not believe that Jesus Christ was not "conceived in any way that might be considered supernatural" | ||
| + | |sublink12=Response to claim: 287-8, 575n39 (PB) - Do Latter-day Saints believe that God the Father visited the earth to conceive Jesus Christ through Mary after "making her his wife"? | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 288, 576n42-43 (PB) - Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus became a polygamist just like His Father | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 288, 576n44 - The author states that the "road to godhood" for others is "far more difficult and takes considerably longer" than the route taken by Jesus Christ | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 289, 578n51 (HB) 576n51 (PB) - "many "'influential' Mormons and LDS religion teachers still saw women as mere 'birth machines'" | ||
| + | |sublink16=Response to claim: 290, 577n56-57 (PB) - Ann Eliza Young in her 1875 book Wife No. 19 stated the polygamy in Utah was not an option, but a command | ||
| + | |sublink17=Response to claim: 295, 579n77 - Latter-day Saint men treated women as "livestock or property" | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 295, 582n81-82 (HB) 580n81-82 (PB) - The author claims that "wife swapping" was "acceptable" | ||
| + | |sublink19=Response to claim: 297, 581n88-89 (PB) - Missionaries were instructed to not select converted women as wives before they were brought back to Utah | ||
| + | |sublink20=Response to claim: 297, 581n90-95 (PB) - If missionaries chose not to "heed Kimball's warning" about selecting wives before bringing them to Utah, they were castrated | ||
| + | |sublink21=Response to claim: 299, 581n95 (PB) - Brigham Young said that "the only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy" | ||
| + | |sublink22=Response to claim: 301, 582n106 (PB) - Orson Pratt taught that anyone not entering into plural marriage "will be damned" | ||
| + | |sublink23=Response to claim: 301 (PB) - "Monogamy was equated with a failure to obey God, which not only displeased the Almighty, but endangered one's eternal destiny" | ||
| + | |sublink24=Response to claim: 301-2, 582n108 (PB) - Did Brigham actually say that monogamy was the "source of prostitution and whoredom" throughout all Christendom? | ||
| + | |sublink25=Response to claim: 302, 582n109 (PB) - Was failure to acquire plural wives considered a crime worthy of death? | ||
| + | |sublink26=Response to claim: 302 (PB) - The author claims that single or monogamous men "mocked and ridiculed as practically impotent" | ||
| + | |sublink27=Response to claim: 303, 582n111 (PB) - LDS women were told that they could only be saved through their husbands, who would provide them with salvation | ||
| + | |sublink28=Response to claim: 304, 583n114 (PB) - Brigham said: "It is for you to bear children..." | ||
| + | |sublink29=Response to claim: 305 (PB) - The author claims that the Bible not sanction or command polygamy | ||
| + | |sublink30=Response to claim: 306 (PB) - The author claims that the Hebrews never considered polygamy a standard practice | ||
| + | |sublink31=Response to claim: 307, 583-4n123-5 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young believe that the New Testament teaches polygamy and that Jesus and his apostles were actually polygamists? | ||
| + | |sublink32=Response to claim: 308 (PB) - The Book of Mormon condemns polygamy | ||
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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 - web page has since been removed. This link goes to the web archive for the page)
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."