Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 7

Claims made in "Chapter 6: No rest for the Righteous"

A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes

Claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"

Claims made in "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio"

Page	Claim	Response	Author's sources
127 epigraph, 527n1 (PB)	"Some revelations are of God: some revelations are of man: and some revelations are of the devil.	This is actually David Whitmer's recollection of something that he claimed Joseph said to him 50 years earlier. Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?	David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, 31. DC 46꞉7
127-8, 528n5 (PB)	Joseph said that "[f]ifty-six years should wind up the scene" before the second coming.	Joseph Smith prophesied the Second Coming to be in 1890	History of the Church, vol. 2, 182. History of the Church, vol. 5, 336.
128-9, 528n10 (PB)	The revelations published in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants "were drastically 'amended, added to, excised, and in some cases assigned different historical settings.'"	The inner quote is from Marquardt's book. Doctrine and Covenants textual changes	H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text & Commentary, xv.
129, 529n14-15 (PB)	Joseph broke Ohio law by marrying Newel Knight to "undivorced Lydia G. Baily," despite having no license to perform marriages in Ohio.		Quinn, 88.
129, 529n16 (PB)	"Kirtland was full of converts who had left behind them spouses who could not be persuaded to join the church."	This is a direct, attributed quote from Brodie's book, however, this is Brodie's own opinion. She does not provide a source to back up this claim.	Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 183. ( Index of claims )
529n16 (PB)	*In the endnote, the author claims that "[d]isruptions of the family unit and marriage break-ups are often seen among religious groups termed "cults," and that "ex-Mormons have reported that LDS leaders/counselors commonly encourage divorce when the spouse of a faithful Mormon forsakes the faith."	This claim is false. Church leaders do not advise divorce under these circumstances. Note that the author takes the opportunity to classify the Church as a "cult" based upon this supposition.	No sources provided for this claim.
130, 530n22	Levi Lewis claimed that Joseph tried to seduce Eliza Winters in 1830.	The Hurlbut affidavits—Levi Lewis  [needs work]	Levi Lewis, Susquehanna Register, May 1, 1834 reprinted in Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 268.
131, 530n23-24 (PB)	"Mormon males" were encouraged to take plural wives "of the Lamanites and Nephites" in order to make them "white, delightsome and just."	Native Americans to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage?	Marquardt, 375. Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979), 210.( Index of claims )
132 (PB)	"Although Smith never took any Lamanites as wives, he did begin establishing what would gradually become a fairly large harem of young girles and women taken from his flock of "white and delightsome" disciples."	One Nation Under Gods/Sarcasm	No source provided.
132, 530-531n29-36 (PB)	Joseph's first polyamous union was with Fanny Alger.	Joseph Smith and polygamy/Marriages to young women—Fanny Alger	Andrew Jenson, 233. Benjamin F. Johnson, letter to George S. Gibbs, 1903. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), 6-7. Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 31-34. ( Index of claims )
133, 531n37 (PB)	William McLellin reported that Joseph and Fanny were found "in the barn together alone..."	Joseph Smith and polygamy/Fanny Alger and William McLellin	Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 35. ( Index of claims )

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