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| Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIRwiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.
It should be noted that Richard Abanes' response to the list of problems documented by FAIR is that the editing on the hardback edition of One Nation Under Gods was incomplete and that many of the problems were corrected in the paperback edition, published a year later. (This corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.) Despite the author's statements, many of the problems noted exist in both the hardback and paperback versions. FAIR members are in the process of updating the problems so they address both editions of the book.
In the table below the Hardback is represented by "HB" and the Paperback by "PB."
- Claims made in "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy"
- Claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries"
- Claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"
- Claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet"
- Claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"
- Claims made in "Chapter 5: People of Zion"
- Claims made in "Chapter 6: No rest for the Righteous"
- Claims made in "Chapter 7: Woes In Ohio"
- Claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"
- Claims made in "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom"
- Claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning"
- Claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham"
- Claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars"
- Claims made in "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony"
- Claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise"
- Claims made in "Chapter 15: Making the Transition"
- Claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"
- Claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?"
- Claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies"
- Claims made in "Notes"
Claims made in "Chapter 6: No Rest for the Righteous"
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Claims made in "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio"
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Claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"
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Claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham"
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| 236-237, 563n53 (HB) | "Apostates certainly were viewed as the worst of sinners, although every reprobate received the same penalty. As Brigham instructed his flock: 'If any miserable scoundrels come here, cut their throats.'" | Use of sources: Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats" |
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| 244-245, 566n82 (HB) | "...as the wagon-train traversed the southern route, conflict erupted between the emigrants and the Mormons, who refused to sell badly needed food and supplies to the travelers. Such conduct was unthinkable to the Baker-Fancher company. They had no idea that the refusals were in obedience to Brigham's prohibition on trading with the Gentiles." | Use of sources: Orders to Starve Gentiles |
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Claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars"
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Claims made in "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony"
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| 289, 578n51 (HB) | "According to the late BYU scholar Eugene England, Mormon women literally are to become 'birth machines' so Mormon males can continue creating and populating various worlds without end." | Use of sources: LDS "Birth Machines" |
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Claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise"
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Claims made in "Chapter 15: Making the Transition"
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Claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"
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Claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian"
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| 389, 603n45 (HB) | Gordon B. Hinckley said: "None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly." | Use of sources: Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine |
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Claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies"
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| 408, 608n28 (HB) | "Another tactic utilized by Mormon leaders has been to revise Smith's revelations so as to make the church's history more palatable." | Use of sources: Advertising for the Tanners |
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| 413-414, 609-610n39 (HB) | "Some of the most disturbing instructions about blind obedience came from LDS president Ezra Taft Benson in his 'Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet' speech. His fundamentals for living a righteous Mormon life left little room for independent thought." | Use of sources: The LDS as Mindless Followers |
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Claims made in "Appendix C: Abrahams Book?"
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Claims made in "Appendix D: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies"
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Claims made in "Notes, Abbreviations"
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| 475 | AOF: The Articles of Faith are thirteen statements that outline the more socially acceptable Mormon beliefs, usually discussed openly by Latter-day Saints when explaining Mormonism to potential converts. None of the articles deal with any doctrines that might be viewed as offensive or controversial to non-Mormons. The Articles of Faith are contained in modern LDS editions of the Pearl of Great Price, one of the Standard Works of the Mormon church. The AOF are on-line at http://www.exmormon.org/fourteen.htm. | Use of sources: The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith |
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