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Revision as of 20:19, 19 February 2010


A FAIR Analysis of:
Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church
A work by author: Will Bagley

Claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"

Page Claim Response Author's sources

7

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

9

  •  Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
  •  [ATTENTION!]
  • Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.

15

  • Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

15

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

16

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

21

  •  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....
  •  [ATTENTION!]