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:Ladies and gentlemen, I exhort you to think for yourselves, and read your Bibles for yourselves, get the Holy Spirit for yourselves, and pray for yourselves.{{ref|by1}} | :Ladies and gentlemen, I exhort you to think for yourselves, and read your Bibles for yourselves, get the Holy Spirit for yourselves, and pray for yourselves.{{ref|by1}} | ||
:All have the privilege of thinking for themselves upon all matters relative to conscience. . . . We are not disposed, had we the power, to deprive anyone of exercising that free independence of mind which heaven has so graciously bestowed upon the human family as one of its choicest gifts.{{ref|js1}} | |||
:The great masses of the people neither think nor act for themselves. . . . I see too much of this gross ignorance among this chosen people of God.{{ref|by2}} | |||
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Criticism
Source(s) of the criticism
Response
- Ladies and gentlemen, I exhort you to think for yourselves, and read your Bibles for yourselves, get the Holy Spirit for yourselves, and pray for yourselves.[1]
- All have the privilege of thinking for themselves upon all matters relative to conscience. . . . We are not disposed, had we the power, to deprive anyone of exercising that free independence of mind which heaven has so graciously bestowed upon the human family as one of its choicest gifts.[2]
- The great masses of the people neither think nor act for themselves. . . . I see too much of this gross ignorance among this chosen people of God.[3]
Conclusion
Endnotes
- [note] Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 11:107. off-site wiki
- [note] Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, selected by Joseph Fielding Smith, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976), 49. off-site
- [note] Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 9:295. off-site wiki
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FAIR Topical Guide:
External Links
- Eric A. Eliason, "Review of: Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896," FARMS Review of Books 12/1 (2000): 95–112. off-site