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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 10
| Claims made in "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom" | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham" |
Claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning"
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| 220, 553n77 (HB) | Brigham "proudly admitted" "'I have been your dictator for twenty-seven years--over a quarter of a century I have dictated this people.'" | Use of sources: Brigham, the Dictator |
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| 222, 554n88 (HB) | Brigham asserted that God's kingdom had already come. "[T]hat Kingdom is actually organized, and the inhabitants of earth do not [even] know it," | Use of sources: Brigham and the Kingdom of God |
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| 222, 554n89 (HB) | Brigham said: "[W]e will roll on the Kingdom of our God, gather out the seed of Abraham, build the cities and temples of Zion, and establish the Kingdom of God to bear rule over all the earth." | Use of sources: Ruling Over the Earth |
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