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Contents
- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Elizabeth and Ruby"
- 1.3 Claim
- The author claims that a fourteen-year-old Latter-day Saint girl was forced to wear robes by her kidnapper that "resembled the sacred robes she had donned with her family when they entered the Mormon temple."
- The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."
Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Elizabeth and Ruby"
| [[../Chapter 3|Chapter 3]] | A FAIR Analysis of: [[../../|Under the Banner of Heaven]], a work by author: Jon Krakauer
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[[../Chapter 5|Chapter 5]] |
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Claim
- The author claims that Latter-day Saints are raised to "obey figures of Mormon authority unquestioningly, and to believe that LDS doctrine is the law of God."
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Compare with similar treatment in Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 9.
- Obey Brigham unquestioningly?
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders/Quotes
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Claim
- The author claims that a fourteen-year-old Latter-day Saint girl was forced to wear robes by her kidnapper that "resembled the sacred robes she had donned with her family when they entered the Mormon temple."
Response- The author's claim is false A fourteen-year-old LDS girl's experience with the temple would have only involved performing baptisms for the dead, and would not have required the wearing of any "sacred robes."
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- The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."
Response- That depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to.