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*{{AuthorQuote|"Coexisting with these two deities was a limitless amount of cosmic spirit matter known as "intelligence," out of which Elohim and Heavenly Mother made countless spirit babies via celestial sex."}}  | *{{AuthorQuote|"Coexisting with these two deities was a limitless amount of cosmic spirit matter known as "intelligence," out of which Elohim and Heavenly Mother made countless spirit babies via celestial sex."}}  | ||
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*[[  | *The author uses the offensive term "celestial sex" to characterize LDS beliefs related to the pre-existence. The author makes similar claims in his later book [[Becoming Gods#Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?|''Becoming Gods'' (a.k.a. ''Inside Today's Mormonism'')]]  | ||
*The sources quoted, Bruce R. McConkie, Brigham Young, and Orson Pratt never use the term "celestial sex."   | |||
*''No LDS leader'' has ever used the term "celestial sex."   | |||
*The term "celestial sex" was popularized in Ed Decker's 1982 anti-Mormon film [[The God Makers]]. This source is not credited as a source by the author, but its influence is obvious.  | |||
*[[../../Loaded and prejudicial language|Loaded and prejudicial language]]  | |||
*[[Celestial sex|Celestial sex?]]{{nw}}  | |||
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*McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 387  | *McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'', 387  | ||
| Claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars" | A FAIR Analysis of:   Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes 
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Claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" | 
Coexisting with these two deities was a limitless amount of cosmic spirit matter known as "intelligence," out of which Elohim and Heavenly Mother made countless spirit babies via celestial sex.
—One Nation Under Gods, p. 285
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