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| + | |summary=In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years. | ||
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**[[Specific works/Becoming Gods|''Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism'']] — ([[Specific works/Becoming Gods/Index|Index of claims]]) | **[[Specific works/Becoming Gods|''Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism'']] — ([[Specific works/Becoming Gods/Index|Index of claims]]) | ||
**[[Specific works/Becoming Gods|''Inside Today's Mormonism'']] (2007 re-issue of ''Becoming Gods'') | **[[Specific works/Becoming Gods|''Inside Today's Mormonism'']] (2007 re-issue of ''Becoming Gods'') | ||
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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
{{SummaryItem |link=Specific works/One Nation Under Gods |subject=One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes |summary=In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years.
- Index of claims—
Brief Summary: A page-by-page response to critical claims made in this work (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism — (Index of claims)
- Inside Today's Mormonism (2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods)
- Index of claims—
- Will Bagley
- Fawn McKay Brodie
- Todd Compton
- Ed Decker
- Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
- The God Makers (book)
- The God Makers (film/cartoon)
- Sally Denton
- Dan Erickson
- Norman L. Geisler
- Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
- Ronald V. Huggins
- Jon Krakauer
- Charles Larson
- "Dr." Walter Martin
- McKeever & Johnson
- Rodney L. Meldrum
- Brent L. Metcalfe
- Christopher Nemelka
- Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
- Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
- Grant Palmer
- Bruce H. Porter
- B.H. Roberts
- D. Michael Quinn
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims)
- "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
- Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
- George D. Smith
- Carol Whang Shutter
- September Dawn (film)
- Simon G. Southerton
- Jerald and Sandra Tanner