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+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 331, 591n2 (PB) - Did the number of plural marriages jump "nearly five-fold" immediately after Utah gained statehood? | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 332 - Did Reed Smoot take an oath of vengeance against the United States because of their failure to come to the aid of the Saints when they were being persecuted? | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 334 - Did the concept of revenge play a "very prominent role" in early Latter-day Saints' beliefs? | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 334, 592n10 (PB) - In the 1800s, did Latter-day Saints "glorify vengeance" through the singing of hymns? | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 335 - Were Latter-day Saints who served in positions in the U.S. government hindered by having taken an "oath of vengeance"? | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 335-336 - Did the "oath of vengeance" require the Latter-day Saints instruct their descendants to take vengeance upon the U.S. government? | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 336 - Do LDS church authorities believe that "non-Mormons are unfit to rule" and that Latter-day Saints are the only ones fit to rule the world? | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 336, 593n17 - Did Church president Joseph F. Smith defend his "illegal cohabitation with five wives" during Senate testimony? | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 337, 593n20 - Did Joseph F. Smith authorize polygamous marriages in Mexico and request that the records stay there so that they wouldn't be found during a search by U.S. officials? | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 339, 593n32 - Did Joseph F. Smith admit that he had broken the laws of the land and the laws of God? | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 341, 594n48-50 - Did Reed Smoot lie that he had never heard a discussion of plural marriage in his meetings with the apostles? | ||
+ | |sublink12=Response to claim: 343, 594n54 - What was the "Second Manifesto" issued by Joseph F. Smith? | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 351, n91 - Does the Church teach the the current practice of monogamy is only temporary and that polygamy will be reinstated when Christ returns? | ||
+ | |sublink14=Response to claim: 353 - Do Latter-day Saints have "underlying white supremacist beliefs"? | ||
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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 FairMormon 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. 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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