Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 25

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"Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet"

A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Fawn Brodie

Claims made in "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction"

Claim

• Hyrum Smith claimed to receive a revelation that the Democratic candidate was to receive the Mormon vote.

Response
 FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources

Claim

• Joseph said that God was his "right hand man."

Author's source(s)

• History of the Church 6:71-78

Response

•  Misrepresentation of source: God his right hand man?

Claim

• Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law.

Author's source(s)

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

Response

•  History unclear or in error
• Nauvoo city charter
  • Habeas corpus
  • Usurpation of power?

Claim

• A council of fifty "princes" was formed to be the "highest court on earth."

Author's source(s)

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

Response

• The Council of Fifty

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.

Response

• The Council of Fifty

Claim

• Joseph's presidential candidacy included a proposal to free the slaves, "in a complete reversal of his earlier stand."

Response
 FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources

Claim

• The Book of Abraham contained "anti-Negro sentiments."

Response
 FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources

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