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|sublink1=Response to claim: 402 (PB) - Does the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "proselytize unsuspecting music lovers"? | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 403 - "The general public, especially outside America, still possesses little knowledge of the unsavory nature of Mormonism" | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 403, 605n9 (PB) - Baptisms for the dead were performed for Nazis, including Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 403 - Baptisms for the dead are incompatible with Christianity | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 404 - "It is possible that many readers of this book have had their deceased relatives baptized by proxy into Mormonism" | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 404, 605n14 (PB) - Latter-day Saints performed vicarious baptisms for Jews who had died in the Holocaust | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 405, 605n18-19 (PB) - Do LDS leaders suppress access to Church archives? | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 405, 607n21 (HB) 605n21 (PB) - "LDS leaders re-write historical documents, deny that other documents exist, create fictitious historical data..." | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 406, 605n22 (PB) - The History of the Church was mostly written after his death, but reads as if he wrote it himself | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 406 - Was writing the History of the Church as if Joseph himself wrote it a "flagrant breach of standard protocol for persons producing historical works" as the book claims? | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 406, 608n23 (HB) 606n23 (PB) - Was a "forged prediction" added to the history that a "mighty people" that would dwell "in the midst of the Rocky Mountains"? | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 406, 606n23 (PB) - Was a "forged prediction" added to the history of the Church regarding the future political career of Senator Stephen A. Douglas? | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 407, 606n26 (PB) - LDS leaders claim that the "official history" is "the most accurate history in all the world" | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 407 - The minutes of a conference dealing with Sidney Rigdon discussed in Volume six of the History of the Church differs from the minutes originally printed in the Times and Seasons | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 412 - The book claims that there is "academic dishonesty foisted upon church members by LDS scholars" | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 412 - "Mormonism has been an emotion-based religion opposed to intellectual, rational thought" | |||
|sublink17=Response to claim: 412 - Latter-day Saints are supposed to only rely on the "burning in the bosom" even if they are "faced with irrefutable facts that undermine the LDS church" | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 412, 609n34 (HB) 607n34 (PB) - Latter-day Saints are instructed to "simply not think and obey church authorities" | |||
|sublink19=Response to claim: 413-414, 609-610n39 (HB) 607n39 (PB) - Did Ezra Taft Benson's talk about "Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet" speech eliminate the possibility of Latter-day Saints exercising independent thought? | |||
|sublink20=Response to claim: 414, 610n42 (HB) 608n42 (PB) - N. Eldon Tanner said, "When the prophet has spoken, the debate is over" | |||
|sublink21=Response to claim: 415, 608-609n43-57 (PB) - Did the Church excommunicate a number of "dissidents"? | |||
|sublink22=Response to claim: 418, 611n58 (HB) 609n58 (PB) - President Hinckley said that "dissidents" that were excommunicated got what they deserved "as cursed servants of Satan" | |||
|sublink23=Response to claim: 418, 611n59-60 (HB) 609n59-60 (PB) - Is the "Strengthening Church Members Committee" is a group used to spy on members of the Church? | |||
|sublink24=Response to claim: 419 - The 1997 Relief Society manual makes it sound as if Brigham Young only had one wife and six children | |||
|sublink25=Response to claim: 420, 611n63 (HB) 609n63 (PB) - Gordon B. Hinckley tried to cover up the Church's polygamous past when he appeared on Larry King Live and said that only two to five percent of the early LDS practiced it | |||
|sublink26=Response to claim: 420, 612n68-71 (HB) 610n68-71 (PB) - Does the Book of Mormon claim that Native Americans will miraculously turn "white-skinned" by accepting "Mormon beliefs"? | |||
|sublink27=Response to claim: 422, 612n75 (HB) 610n75 (PB) - Did the Church acquire the Hofmann documents (later discovered to be forgeries) in order to suppress them? | |||
|sublink28=Response to claim: 424 - "Mormon leaders also blocked efforts by police to see exactly what documents were in LDS church vaults" | |||
|sublink29=Response to claim: 424, 612n78 (HB) 610n78 (PB) - LDS leaders should have been capable of detecting the Hofmann deception | |||
|sublink30=Response to claim: 427 - "The Mormon habit of sometimes taking detours around truth to protect the church has not always led to murder" | |||
|sublink31=Response to claim: 428, n85 - Paul H. Dunn defended his embellishments in order to "illustrate his theological and moral points" | |||
|sublink32=Response to claim: 430-433 - Was the Salt Lake Olympic bribery scandal the fault of the Church? | |||
|sublink33=Response to claim: 434, 614n117-127 - Do Latter-day Saints believe they will rescue the Constitution from ruin, thus allowing "Mormonism" to take over the world? | |||
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Revision as of 04:17, 11 March 2015
Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
| Overview | A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes
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...after seven years, FAIR has been able to raise only twenty-seven objections to a book weighing in at 651 pages (471 pages of main text + nearly 150 pages of endnotes + bibliography + indexes). Particularly interesting is how most these so-called errors-mistakes (minus the ones too petty to even address) have all been resolved in the paperback version.
—The author, posted on his website "ERRATA FOR ONE NATION UNDER GODS" (Dec. 2008 - web page has since been removed. This link goes to the web archive for the page)
Page-by-page responses to claims made in One Nation Under Gods
Summary: FairMormon's original review of One Nation Under Gods was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FairMormon reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the 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.) This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."