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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58) | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58) | ||
+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 41, 500 n2-4 (HB) - Did Joseph use at least two seer stones? | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 42, 500n7 (HB) - Did Isaac Hale, Emma's father, disapprove of Joseph because of his money digging activities? | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 44 - Was Joseph pronounced "guilty" of performing illegal activities with his seer stone? | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 46, 503 n.18 - Regarding Joseph's "trial," Hugh Nibley said, "If this court record is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith" | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 47, 503n22 (HB) - Did Joseph realize that money-digging was only earning him $14 a month, and that this was "not nearly enough to support a family"? | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 47, 503n23 (HB) - Is it true that Joseph initially "attached no religious significance" to the "golden book" that he told people he would be retrieving? | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 48, 503n25 (HB) - Did Joseph decide to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme? | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 503n25 (HB) - Joseph tried to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in Canada | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 48, 503-4n29-32 (HB) - Was one of Joseph's early descriptions of Moroni that of a "bloody ghost" with his throat cut? | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 50-51, n34-36 (HB) - Did a "toad-like" creature which "assumed the appearance of a man" and struck Joseph on the side of his head, prevent him from retrieving the gold plates? | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - The author refers to "a subsequent version of Smith's ever-changing tale..." | ||
+ | |sublink12=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - Was it "widely understood" in the 1800s the Joseph located the plates by using his seer stone to see where they had been deposited? | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 51 (HB) - Is it true that "all of the religious aspects" of Joseph's story were added later? | ||
+ | |sublink14=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph Smith claim that the moon was inhabited? | ||
+ | |sublink15=Response to claim: 52 (HB) - Did Joseph teach the notion that "Blacks, Indians, and other people of color are cursed spirits"? | ||
+ | |sublink16=Response to claim: 53, 505-506n47 (HB) 53, 503-504n47 (PB) - The author states: "After all, no one had actually seen the plates, nor would anyone ever see them" | ||
+ | |sublink17=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did the witnesses only see the plates through "visionary experiences"? | ||
+ | |sublink18=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did the eight witnesses only "see" the plates as long as they were covered with a cloth of some kind? | ||
+ | |sublink19=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did Martin Harris say that none of the eight witnesses ever saw the plates, and that he only handled them in a box or under a cloth? | ||
+ | |sublink20=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Joseph Smith claimed that the Three Witnesses saw the plates in a vision | ||
+ | |sublink21=Response to claim: 505n47 (HB) - Did David Whitmer say that none of the Three Witnesses ever actually physically saw or handled the plates? | ||
+ | |sublink22=Response to claim: 508n59 (HB) - Do Latter-day Saint try to discredit statements of Charles Anthon | ||
+ | |sublink23=Response to claim: 55, 508n60 (HB) 55, 506n60 (PB) - Have scholars have declared that there is no language called "Reformed Egyptian"? | ||
+ | |sublink24=Response to claim: 55, 508n62 (HB) - Did Joseph use his "peep stone" to translate the Book of Mormon? | ||
+ | |sublink25=Response to claim: 56, 508n63-65 (HB) - Did Emma Smith and David Whitmer confirm that Joseph translated using his seer stone in a hat? | ||
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Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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...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)
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 FAIR 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 within the FairMormon Answers Wiki. 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."
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