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Claims made in "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction" |
Claims made in "Chapter 25: Candidate for President"
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Claim
- Hyrum Smith claimed to receive a revelation that the Democratic candidate was to receive the Mormon vote.
ResponseFAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources
354
Claim
- Joseph said that God was his "right hand man."
Author's source(s) - History of the Church 6:71-78
- Misrepresentation of source: God his right hand man?
355-356
Claim
- Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- History unclear or in error
- Nauvoo city charter
356
Claim
- A council of fifty "princes" was formed to be the "highest court on earth."
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
356
Claim
- The Council of Fifty ordained and crowned Joseph as "King of the Kingdom of God."
Author's source(s) - William Marks, Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ, Vol. 3 (July 1853) p. 52.
364
Claim
- Joseph's presidential candidacy included a proposal to free the slaves, "in a complete reversal of his earlier stand."
ResponseFAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources
365
Claim
- The Book of Abraham contained "anti-Negro sentiments."
ResponseFAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources
365
Claim
- The Negro is denied a place in the Mormon priesthood (as of 1971 printing).
Response- This, of course, changed in 1978.
- Blacks and the priesthood