Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 1

Prologue

A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church A work by author: Will Bagley

Chapter 2

Claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"

Page	Claim	Response	Author's sources
7	Author's quote: [celestial marriage] allowed the most ordinary backwoodsman to become a god and rule over worlds of his own creation with as many wives as his righteousness could sustain....	Prejudicial or loaded language "Celestial sex" "Rule over worlds of his own creation"? Theosis or human deification	[ATTENTION!] Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
9	Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....	Omissions: "total submission"?	[ATTENTION!] Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.
15	Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.	Nauvoo Expositor	[ATTENTION!]
15	Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.	Nauvoo Expositor Joseph Smith and polygamy Counterfeiting at Nauvoo? Theocracy: Council of Fifty? Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter? Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?	[ATTENTION!]
16	[ATTENTION!] Expositor?	Nauvoo Expositor	[ATTENTION!] Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.
21	Author's quote: [Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....	Oath of vengeance in temple endowment?	[ATTENTION!]