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Revision as of 13:36, 12 January 2009


Claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?"
A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Richard Abanes
 Claims made in "Postscript" (paperback only)

Claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies"

[T]he general public, especially outside America, still possesses little knowledge of the unsavory nature of Mormonism.
—One Nation Under Gods, p. 403.

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Page Claim Response Author's sources

402 (PB)

 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir "has been one of the most effective tools of evangelism used by Latter-day Saints to proselytize unsuspecting music lovers..."
  • Author's opinion.

403

 "[T]he general public, especially outside America, still possesses little knowledge of the unsavory nature of Mormonism."
  • Author's opinion.

403, 605n9

 Baptisms for the dead were performed for "various Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, whom Mormons sealed for eternity to his mistress, Eva Braun. It was apparently done in order to give Hitler and his henchmen an opportunity to accept Mormonism in the afterlife and thereby become gods."
  • Helen Radkey, "The Mormon Church Attempts to Conceal Temple Records for Adolf Hitler"
  • Jan Cienski, "Jews Urge Mormons to Curb Zeal," National Post, June 6, 2001.

403

 Baptisms for the dead are "a non-Christian practice."
  • Author's opinion.

404

 "It is possible that many readers of this book have had their deceased relatives baptized by proxy into Mormonism, even though such persons might not have wanted anything to do with Mormonism during their lives."
  • Author's opinion.

404, 605n14

 "Mormons took it upon themselves to baptize...Jews who had perished in Nazi concentration camps."
  • Bob Mims, "LDS Try to End Unauthorized Work for Jews," Salt Lake Tribune, May 2, 2001.

405, 605n18-19

 LDS leaders "actively suppress the activities of would-be researchers in Mormon archives."
  • Fawn Brodie. Quoted by Newell G. Bringhurst, "Fawn McKay Brodie: Dissident Historian and Quintessential Critic of Mormondom," in Roger Launius, Linda Thatcher, Leonard J. Arrington, eds., Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History, 290.
  • B. Carmon Hardy, "Truth and Mistruth in Mormon History," in Lavina Fielding Anderson and Janice Merrill Allred, eds., Case Reports of teh Mormon Alliance, vol. 3, 279. (The author lists all three volumes as "available for purchase" from the Tanner's ULM.)

405, 605n21

 "LDS leaders re-write historical documents, deny that other documetns exist, create fictitious historical data, add words to update old revelations so that they conform to current events/knowledge, and ddelete various sections of divine pronouncements said to have been transcribe perfectly when originally delivered."

406, n22

 The History of the Church was "supposedly written by Joseph Smith" but was mostly written after his death.
  • Dean C. Jessee, "The WRiting of Joseph Smith's History," Brigham Young University Studies [Summer 1971], vol. 11, 469, 470, 472.
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, 5th edition, (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987), 126-162D.
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979), 398-416.( Index of claims )
  • Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Major Problems of Mormonism.

406

 Changing the history so that it "read as if Joseph Smith himself had written the material...was a flagrant breach of standard protocol for persons producing historical works."
  • No citation provided.

408, 608n28 (HB)

 "Another tactic utilized by Mormon leaders has been to revise Smith's revelations so as to make the church's history more palatable."
  • Hugh Nibley, letter to Morris L. Reynolds, May 12, 1966. Quoted in Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner, Case Against Mormonism (Salt Lake City: ULM, 1967), vol. 1, 132.

413-414, 609-610n39 (HB)

 "Some of the most disturbing instructions about blind obedience came from LDS president Ezra Taft Benson in his 'Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet' speech. His fundamentals for living a righteous Mormon life left little room for independent thought."
  • Ezra Taft Benson, "Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet," February 26, 1980.

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