Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources

Index of Claims

A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes

Loaded and prejudicial language

Source Analysis, Sorted by Page Number

All page numbers are currently from the paperback edition of One Nation under Gods (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002), except where noted.

Page	Person Cited	Source Cited	Article
xv (HB)	Boyd K. Packer	BYU Studies 21:264-265	Historical Suppression in the Church
xv (HB)	Allen Roberts	Private Eye Weekly	Calling All Mormon Scholars
xvi (HB)	John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius	Cultures in Conflict	An Example of Biased Histories
xviii (HB)	Fred Esplin	Utah Holiday	The Mormon Quest for Power
xx (HB)	Fred Esplin	Utah Holiday	Perception and Reality
xx (HB)	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses 11:249	Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri
xxi (HB)	Joseph Smith, Jr.	History of the Church	Destroying Governments and Religions
xxiv (HB)	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses	Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?
16	Richard Abanes	---	"This is My Beloved Son"
27	Lucy Mack Smith	"Preliminary Manuscript" of Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations	Lucy and the angel
53	Richard Abanes	---	Seeing the Plates
55	John A. Wilson	Letter to Martin Cowan	Reformed Egyptian
64	Lucy Mack Smith	Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations	Tall Tales
72	Dan Vogel	Early Mormon Documents	Prophetic Autobiography
75	Dee F. Green	"Book of Mormon Archeology: the Myths and the Alternatives," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought	No Book of Mormon archaeology
86	Brigham Young, John Taylor	Journal of Discourses	Christianity is satanic
89			Divining rods to Kimball and Young
95	Albert Chandler	Early Mormon Documents	Those Power-Hungry Mormons
103n2			Distorted account of three degrees of glory
105			Haranguing non-Mormons
110			Missouri belongs to the Mormons
116			Disobey secular law
122	Joseph Smith	History of the Church	Redeemed by September 1836
129			Joseph gave couples marriage certificates
135			Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland
136			Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"
171	Joseph Smith, Jr.	History of the Church	Joseph Smith's Narcissism
174	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses	Brigham Young said that Joseph on par with Jesus Christ?
175	Levi Edgar Young	Letter to Sandra Tanner	Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report
177	Joseph Smith, Jr.	History of the Church	Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"
178	Joseph Smith, Jr.	History of the Church	The Wrestling Prophet
179	Joseph Smith, Jr.	History of the Church	America's Fighting Prophet
179			Joseph hit a baptist preacher
191			D and C 98 justifies murder
192			Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs
196		History of the Church	Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo
212			Nauvoo police violence
213			Killing Lambert Symes
213			Irvine Hodge murder
213			Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty
213-214			Flogging those out of fellowship
214			Whistling and Whittling Brigades
216-217			Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph
220	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses 14:205	Brigham, the Dictator
221-222			Gentiles have no right to property
222	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses 2:310	Brigham and the Kingdom of God
222	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses 2:317	Ruling Over the Earth
223			Ettie V. Smith
223			Brigham as President of the United States
223			Church and state all one now
223			Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation
227-228			Early federal territorial officials
233			Cutting off from the earth
234-235			Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls
235			Apostles killed Judas
236 (PB only)			Brigham and bowie knife
236-237	Brigham Young	Journal of Discourses 2:311	Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"
245	Brigham Young	Personal letter (1857)	Orders to Starve Gentiles
245			Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre
251			Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished
289	Eugene England	Dialogue (Winter 1987)	LDS "Birth Machines"
316			John Taylor September 1886 revelation
317			Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood
320			Wilford Woodruff demolished Endowment House?
325			Above the law
331			Approved marriages 1890-1899
334			Vengeance hymns
339			Joseph F. Smith finally admits
355-372			Double standard on race
358-360			Mormon Doctrine and race issues
379-380			Special relationship with Christ
380			Natural before spiritual
383-384			Orson Pratt condemns the Bible
389	Gordon B. Hinckley	General Conference (1997)	Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine
406			Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy
406			Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
407			Most accurate history in all the world
408	Hugh Nibley	Personal letter (1966)	Advertising for the Tanners
414	Ezra Taft Benson	Conference Report (October 1987)	The LDS as Mindless Followers
418			President Hinckley and enemies of the Church
424			Church leaders will always know deception
443 (PB)			Poisoning myth
475	Joseph Smith, Jr.	The Articles of Faith	The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith

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