Difference between revisions of "Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 1"

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•  Author's quote: [celestial marriage] allowed the most ordinary backwoodsman to become a god and rule over worlds of his own creation with as many wives as his righteousness could sustain....

•  Prejudicial or loaded language
• "Celestial sex"
• "Rule over worlds of his own creation"?
• Theosis or human deification

•  ^[ATTENTION!]
• Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.

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•  Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....

• Omissions: "total submission"?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]
• Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.

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• Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.

• Nauvoo Expositor

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

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• Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.

• Nauvoo Expositor
• Joseph Smith and polygamy
• Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?
• Theocracy: Council of Fifty?
• Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?
• Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

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•  ^[ATTENTION!] Expositor?

• Nauvoo Expositor

•  ^[ATTENTION!]
• Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.

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•  Author's quote: [Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....

• Oath of vengeance in temple endowment?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]