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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 171 epigraph, 542n1 (HB) 540n1 (PB) - Joseph Smith said ""I combat the errors of the ages..." | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 172 - "intellectual reasoning and logical thought never had played more than a minor role in their belief system" | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 174, 541n17 (PB) - Did Brigham Young actually say that Joseph Smith's character "was easily on par" with Jesus Christ's? | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 175, 543n21 (HB) 541n21 (PB) - The author claims that Joseph Smith is considered as important to Latter-day Saints' spirituality as Jesus Christ | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 175, 541n23 (PB) - Did Brigham Young "twist" John 4:3 in order to apply it to Joseph? | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 175, 542n24 (PB) - The author claims that Joseph suffered from narcissism | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 176, 542n26-28 (PB) - Joseph claimed that he was "nearly equal to" or "as good as" Jesus Christ | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 177, 544n29 (HB) 542n29 (PB) - Joseph Smith boasted: "I am the only man that has been able to keep the whole church together....Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it"? | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 178, 544n34 (HB) 542n34 (PB) - The author claims that Joseph Smith boasted of his "violent deeds" | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 179, 544n36 (HB) 542n36 (PB) - The author claims that Joseph boasted of his fighting skill and his strength | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 178, 544n39 (HB) 542n39 (PB) - Did Jedediah Grant say that Joseph hit a Baptist preacher and and then throw him to the ground? | ||
| + | |sublink12=Response to claim: 181-182 - The author claims that the commissioned officers in the Nauvoo Legion were granted "law-making powers" | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 182, 542n46 - Was the Nauvoo Legion simply a "resurrection" of the Danites? | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 183 - "Where were all those rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence?" | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 186-187, 544n70 (PB) - Joseph set up a "shadow-government" called the "Council of Fifty" | ||
| + | |sublink16=Response to claim: 188, 544n78 - Did the Council of Fifty ordain Joseph to be "King and Ruler over Israel"? | ||
| + | |sublink17=Response to claim: 189, 545n83 - The author claims that Latter-day Saints believe that "the only acceptable government" would have to be in the form of a global theocracy | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 189 - Was Joseph Smith crowned "king of the world"? | ||
| + | |sublink19=Response to claim: 191 - The author claims that Joseph sent Orrin Porter Rockwell to kill ex-Governor Boggs | ||
| + | |sublink20=Response to claim: 191 - The author claims that D&C 98:31 justifies the murder of personal enemies | ||
| + | |sublink21=Response to claim: 192, 546n98 (PB) - The author claims that Porter Rockwell admitted that he had tried to kill Lilburn Boggs | ||
| + | |sublink22=Response to claim: 192, 546n99 (PB) - The author claims that Joseph Smith escaped both times after he was arrested twice for his alleged role in Boggs' assassination attempt | ||
| + | |sublink23=Response to claim: 192 - "Not until 1841 in Nauvoo...was Smith's seemingly insatiable lust for women and young girls unleashed" | ||
| + | |sublink24=Response to claim: 193 - Did Joseph Smith advocate the practice of polyandry? | ||
| + | |sublink25=Response to claim: 193 - "The wives continued to live with their husbands after marrying Smith, but would have conjugal visits from Joseph whenever it served his needs" | ||
| + | |sublink26=Response to claim: 194 - Joseph violated a Biblical prohibition on marrying a mother and daughter or two sisters | ||
| + | |sublink27=Response to claim: 195, 547n117 (PB) - Did Joseph denounce polygamy as sinful and state that "monogamy was God's perfect design? | ||
| + | |sublink28=Response to claim: 196, 549n119 (HB) 547n119 (PB) - "Apostates...preached against the evils thriving in Joseph's city of debauchery and despotism" | ||
| + | |sublink29=Response to claim: 197, 547n122 (PB) - Did Joseph destroy the Nauvoo Expositor because his "entire plan to rule the world" was about to be exposed? | ||
| + | |sublink30=Response to claim: 197, 547n124 (PB) - The Nauvoo Expositor told of women who "under penalty of death," were told that they were to be sealed to him as "spiritual wives" | ||
| + | |sublink31=Response to claim: 198 - Did Joseph decide not to flee to Iowa because of guilt or fear? | ||
| + | |sublink32=Response to claim: 199, 547-548n131-132 (PB) - Did Joseph Smith write a note to Jonathan Dunham telling him to bring the Nauvoo Legion and "break the jail, and save him at all costs"? | ||
| + | |sublink33=Response to claim: 199, 548n133 (PB) - The author asserts that Jonathan Dunham never brought the Nauvoo Legion because "perhaps he was secretly dissatisfied with Smith's leadership" | ||
| + | |sublink34=Response to claim: 199, 548n133 - Is it true, as Brodie claims, that nobody in Nauvoo other than Jonathan Dunham "knew of the prophet's peril"? | ||
| + | |sublink35=Response to claim: 199 - The author states that Joseph had been "smuggled a six-shooter" | ||
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Contents
- 1 Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
- 1.1 Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
- 1.1.1
- 1.1.2 Introduction
- 1.1.3 Chapter 1
- 1.1.4 Chapter 2
- 1.1.5 Chapter 3
- 1.1.6 Chapter 4
- 1.1.7 Chapter 5
- 1.1.8 Chapter 6
- 1.1.9 Chapter 7
- 1.1.10 Chapter 8
- 1.1.11 Chapter 9
- 1.1.12 Chapter 10
- 1.1.13 Chapter 11
- 1.1.14 Chapter 12
- 1.1.15 Chapter 13
- 1.1.16 Chapter 14
- 1.1.17 Chapter 15
- 1.1.18 Chapter 16
- 1.1.19 Chapter 17
- 1.1.20 Chapter 18
- 1.1.21 Postscript
- 1.1.22 Appendix A
- 1.1.23 Appendix B
- 1.1.24 Appendix C
- 1.1.25 Notes
- 1.1 Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
| Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Use of sources |
...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 - web page has since been removed. This link goes to the web archive for the page)
Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
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."