Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 10


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Criticism of Mormonism/Books
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Claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning"

Page Claim Response Author's sources
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.'"
  • Brigham Young, August 13, 1871, The Gospel, etc. Journal of Discourses (Liverpool: George Q. Cannon, 1862; lithographed reprint of original edition, 1966), vol. 14, 205.
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,"
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."