Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 20
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Response to claims made in "Chapter 20: Blood Atonement"
490
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- Reed Peck said that Joseph Smith told him of a revelation in which Apostle Peter stated that he had hung Judas.
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490-491
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- Brigham Young advocated blood atonement.
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491-492
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- Jedediah Grant advocated blood atonement.
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493
Claim
- Murder was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- History of the Church 5:296
- Doctrines of Salvation 1:136
- Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.314
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493
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- Adultery and immorality were worthy of death.
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493
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- Brigham Young said that he would put a javelin through the heart of an adulterous woman.
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496
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- Stealing was worthy of death.
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496
Claim
- Using the name of the Lord in vain was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- Journal of Hosea Stout, vol. 2, p.71; p.56 of the typed copy at Utah State Historical Society
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496
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- Not receiving the Gospel was worthy of death.
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496
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- Marrying an African was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 10:110.
- Wilford Woodruff's Journal, January 16,1852
- Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1973, p.26
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498
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- Breaking covenants was worthy of death.
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498-499
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- Apostasy was worthy of death.
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500
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- Lying was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," December 20, 1846
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500
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- Counterfeiting was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- "Manuscript History of Brigham Young," February 24,1847
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500
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- Condemning Joseph Smith was worthy of death.
Author's source(s)
- Quest for Empire, p.127
- Daily journal of Abraham H. Cannon,"" December 6, 1889, pp.205-6
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501-503
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- Blood atonement was "put into practice" in Utah.
Author's source(s)
- Confessions of John D. Lee, 1880, pp.282-83
- Utah Historical Quarterly, January 1958, p.62, note 39
Response
501
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- Modern church leaders have confirmed the principle but denied the practice of blood atonement.
Author's source(s)
- Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p.87
- Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.133-36
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