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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 355 epigraph, 597n1 - Joseph Smith said in History of the Church: "Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species..." | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 356, 597n5 - "Mormonism and racism have for many years been synonymous terms to persons well acquainted with Latter-day Saint beliefs" | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 356 - "the granting of the priesthood to blacks in 1978 failed to "eradicate the previous 148 years of Mormon racist/white supremacist teachings" | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 356, n6 - The author claims that Latter-day Saints traditionally believe that everyone's place in the world was determined by how they behaved in the pre-mortal world | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 357, 597n7, 9-11 - "These admirable spirits served God well, followed his commands, and did the most with their talents before coming to earth. Consequently, they...are born as Mormons in America" | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 358, 597n13 - Were those who were "less valiant" born as blacks? | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 358, 597n14-15 - Brigham Young and Bruce R. McConkie claimed that blacks were of the lineage of Cain | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 360, 598n23-26 - Bruce R. McConkie said..."The negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned" | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 361, 598n27 - "As a white Mormon, I proudly accepted the teaching that my fair skin and Mormon parentage signified that I had been one of God's most intelligent and obedient born-in-heaven spirit children" | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 361, 598n28, 31 - Interracial marriage was condemned by Brigham Young as "one of the most heinous of deeds" | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 362, 598n29-30 - Mark E. Petersen said that segregation was acceptable, and that interracial marriage "posed a danger" | ||
| + | |sublink12=Response to claim; 364, 599n40 - Wallace Turner claims that Latter-day Saints did not support the Civil Rights movement because they had "strong feelings of racial superiority infused into them by years of white supremacist teachings" | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 366 - David O. McKay was "blocked" from granting Blacks the priesthood by Ezra Taft Benson, Harold B. Lee, and Joseph Fielding Smith | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 367 - When George Wallace asked President David O. McKay if Ezra Taft Benson could be his vice-presidential running mate, this request was denied | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 368 - By the time Spencer W. Kimball took over as Church president "the church had been enduring non-stop pressure to conform with America's realization that racial inequality had to end" | ||
| + | |sublink16=Response to claim: 369, 599n57 - President Kimball was forced to change the priesthood restriction because of the new temple in Brazil | ||
| + | |sublink17=Response to claim: 370 - "Mormons, by and large, were pleased that God had changed his mind at such a convenient time in history" | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 370 - The author claims that the lifting of the priesthood ban caused "millions of dollars" to begin "flowing into the church's coffers" | ||
| + | |sublink19=Response to claim: 370, 599n59 - Brigham Young said that Blacks would not receive the priesthood until after the resurrection of the dead | ||
| + | |sublink20=Response to claim: 371, 600n63 - Is the idea that the words of a living prophet are more important than the teachings of a dead prophet a "illogical belief"? | ||
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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."