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	|subject=Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820		|subject=Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820
	|summary=It is claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York area in 1820, contrary to Joseph Smith's claims that during that year there was "an unusual excitement on the subject of religion...indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it"		|summary=It is claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York area in 1820, contrary to Joseph Smith's claims that during that year there was "an unusual excitement on the subject of religion...indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it"
		+	|sublink1=Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820?
		+	|sublink2=Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper?
		+	|sublink3=Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion?
		+	|sublink4=Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources?
		+	|sublink5=Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers?
		+	|sublink6=Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision?
		+	|sublink7=Palmyra Register (1820): "It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God"
		+	|sublink8=Question: Did Gordon B. Hinckley cite false information regarding an 1820 Palmyra revival in a book called Truth Restored?
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Criticisms of events leading up to the First Vision

Criticisms of events leading up to the First Vision

Joseph Smith and the Methodists

Summary: It is claimed that any association Joseph had with Methodism did not occur until the 1824-25 revival in Palmyra, and that his claim that the "unusual excitement" started with the Methodists in 1820 is therefore incorrect.

Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820

Summary: It is claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York area in 1820, contrary to Joseph Smith's claims that during that year there was "an unusual excitement on the subject of religion...indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it"

Gordon B. Hinckley cited false information?

Summary: It is claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York area in 1820, and that Gordon B. Hinckley cited false information in a book called Truth Restored.

Smith family place of residence in 1820

Summary: It is claimed that there are discrepancies in Joseph's account of his family's early history, which make his 1820 and subsequent revelations impossible, and that there is no evidence that the Smith family was in the Palmyra area in 1820 for the religious excitement and First Vision which Joseph reported.

A FairMormon Analysis of Wikipedia article "First Vision"

Summary: FairMormon analyzes the Wikipedia treatment of the First Vision.