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}} | |sublink1=Response to claim: 23 - "Having suffered beatings and tarrings at the hands of Mormon baiters years earlier, and having faced impending death at various junctures, Smith sensed rightly that events in Nauvoo would be the grand finale of his life" | ||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 23 - Building a spired marble temple took precedence over everything else | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 24 - The Council of Fifty was "a group of princes" who would rule the "Mormon empire" | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 25 - Joseph had himself ordained "king" during the time that he was running for President | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 25 - Joseph had a "narcissistic" "theme of deceiving self and others" | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 26 - "Nauvoo, unlike Kirtland, had become the sanctuary for strange ceremonials and shrouded rites many members found increasingly alien and offensive" | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 26- A "Mormon historian" claims that 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" | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 26 - Joseph "plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls" | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 27 - The founders of the Nauvoo Expositor were "men who knew too much" | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 27 - "Smith ordered the Nauvoo Legion to storm the newspaper, destroy the press, and burn all extant issues" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 27 - The author claims that "the constitutional defenders of the First Amendment" called for Joseph Smith's arrest after the destruction of the Expositor | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 28 - Joseph sent orders to the Nauvoo Legion from Carthage Jail to come and free him | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 28 - The author claims that "lore had it" that Joseph gave the Masonic distress signal "before calling out: 'Oh Lord my God. Is there no help for the widow's son?" | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 29 - The author claims that Joseph's death was "second in importance only to that of Jesus Christ" | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 29 - Allen J. Stout's journal says that he will avenge Joseph's blood to the fourth generation | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 29 - D. Michael Quinn said that Joseph "failed to clarify for the highest leadership of the church the precise method of succession God intended" | |||
|sublink17=Response to claim: 30 - Sidney Rigdon is claimed to have "recently apostatized over Smith's attempted seduction of his daughter in to a polygamous marriage" | |||
|sublink18=Response to claim: 31 - Sidney Rigdon, "Knowing he could not compete with Smith as a seer..." | |||
|sublink19=Response to claim: 32 - The temple is claimed to have "placed under the most sacred obligations to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever an opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same" | |||
|sublink20=Response to claim: 32 - The "entire Mormon people" became "sworn and avowed enemies of the American nation" | |||
|sublink21=Response to claim: 36 - The author claims that Brigham "disposed of his rivals." Stanley P. Hirshson is quoted as claiming that Nauvoo became a "police state" | |||
|sublink22=Response to claim: 36 - The author claims that John D. Lee was "an integral component in the new power structure" after Joseph's death | |||
|sublink23=Response to claim: 37 - The author claims that Emma and other Smith relatives returned to Far West and founded the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | |||
|sublink24=Response to claim: 37 - The author claims that Joseph wanted people to receive their endowments for the "Mormon road to heaven" | |||
|sublink25=Response to claim: 37 - LDS missionaries to England "capitalized on the intolerable social and economic conditions" in order to gain converts | |||
|sublink26=Response to claim: 38 - Quoting D. Michael Quinn, the author notes that Brigham said that women "have no right to meddle in the affairs of the Kingdom of God" | |||
|sublink27=Response to claim: 38 - The author claims that Brigham "commended his police for nearly beating to death an apostate within the walls of the temple" | |||
|sublink28=Response to claim: 38-39 - The author mentions "the pending indictment of two leaders of the Church on counterfeiting charges..." | |||
|sublink29=Response to claim: 39 - The author claims that "thousands of armed Mormons and Gentiles faced off" in Nauvoo | |||
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Revision as of 16:07, 29 March 2015
Index to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.