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+ | |link=Criticism_of_Mormonism/Books/One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Orders_to_Starve_Gentiles | ||
+ | |subject= Brigham Young ordered the Saints to "starve the Gentiles" when the future victims of the Mountain Meadow Massacre arrived | ||
+ | |summary=The order not to trade with immigrants applied to all commodities, and was prompted by the threat of siege due to the imminent arrival of the US Army to Utah. It was not intended to kill immigrants. | ||
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+ | |link=Criticism_of_Mormonism/Books/One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Heber_C._Kimball--violence_and_intimidation | ||
+ | |subject= Heber C. Kimball used violence and intimidation against non-Mormons or apostates? | ||
+ | |summary=The speech cited as evidence for this claim does not show any evidence of threats of violence or intimidation. | ||
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+ | |link=One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Early_federal_territorial_officials | ||
+ | |subject=Early territorial officials were threatened by Mormons | ||
+ | |summary=Some early territorial officials claimed Mormons threatened their lives. They made no such claims at the time, however, even when safely back in Washington. The evidence does not support the charge, which was likely made out of animus against the Mormons. | ||
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+ | |link=Criticism_of_Mormonism/Books/One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Vengeance_hymns | ||
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+ | |summary=D. Michael Quinn cites several LDS hymns as evidence that the Saints encouraged vengeance against their enemies. The hymns ask instead for God to revenge them of their wrongs in the coming judgment—they do not anticipate taking matters into their own hands, and in some cases even explicitly rule it out. | ||
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The "Mormon Reformation" was a reform or spiritual rejuvenation movement that began among the Utah Saints in the mid-1850s. Ironically, noted one historian, "[m]ore has been written about its excesses (real and imaginary) than about what actually happened. Stenhouse's anonymous chapter on the Reformation and Blood Atonement was typical. Even church historian B. H. Roberts devoted twice as much space in discussing blood atonement in connection with the reform movement than he did to the Reformation itself."[1]
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
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