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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 1
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Contents
- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
- 2 Claim
- Author's quote: [celestial marriage] allowed the most ordinary backwoodsman to become a god and rule over worlds of his own creation with as many wives as his righteousness could sustain....
- Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
- Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.
- Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
- [ATTENTION!] Expositor?
- Author's quote: [Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....
Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
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Claim
- Author's quote: [celestial marriage] allowed the most ordinary backwoodsman to become a god and rule over worlds of his own creation with as many wives as his righteousness could sustain....
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
- Prejudicial or loaded language
- Nature of God/"Celestial sex"
- "Rule over worlds of his own creation"?
- Theosis or human deification
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Claim
- Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.
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Claim
- Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
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Claim
- Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Nauvoo Expositor
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy
- Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?
- Theocracy: Council of Fifty?
- Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?
- Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?
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Claim
- [ATTENTION!] Expositor?
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.
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Claim
- Author's quote: [Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]