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Revision as of 18:47, 19 March 2009
Preface | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: George D. Smith
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Chapter 1 (pp. 26-51) |
Claims made in "Chapter 1" (pp. 1-25)
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Ignoring Hancock autobiography (edit) |
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Ignoring Hancock autobiography (edit) |
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Womanizing & romance (edit) |
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Ages of wives (edit) |
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It is claimed that "[n]o one knew precisely when the final end would come, but they knew it was imminent." |
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Bloc voting (edit) See NOTE on bloc voting | |
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Nauvoo city charter (edit) |
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Hiding polygamy (edit) | |
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John C. Bennett (edit) |
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Censorship of Church History (edit) | |
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Necessary for salvation? (edit) |
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Predicting 2nd Coming (edit) |
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Environmental explanations (edit) | |
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Environmental explanations (edit) |
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Predicting 2nd Coming (edit) |
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Early preoccupation with polygamy (edit) |
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Emma and Joseph Eloped (edit) |
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Early preoccupation with polygamy (edit) |
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Or, it might not. As it turns out, it isn't.
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Early preoccupation with polygamy (edit) |
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Early preoccupation with polygamy (edit) |
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The author is here using the Hurlbut-Howe affidavits uncritically, without addressing their numerous problems.
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The author again presumes that Joseph's works referred to "sinful thoughts," which he has tried to tie to chastity.
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Womanizing & romance (edit) |
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Womanizing & romance (edit) |
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Womanizing & romance (edit) |
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Fanny Alger (edit) Ages of wives (edit) |
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Fanny Alger (edit) |
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Endnotes
- [note] Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House/University of Illinois Press, [1979] 1992), 69. ISBN 0252062361. off-site
- [note] William J. Hamblin, "That Old Black Magic (Review of Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, revised and enlarged edition, by D. Michael Quinn)," FARMS Review of Books 12/2 (2000): 225–394. [{{{url}}} off-site]
- [note] W.W. Phelps, Letter to Brigham Young, 1861, original in Church Archives, emphasis in original; cited by B. Carmon Hardy, Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise, Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier (Norman, Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2007), 36–37.
- [note] Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005), 99.
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