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===Claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts" === | ===Claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts" === | ||
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* {{AuthorQuote|[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....}} | * {{AuthorQuote|[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....}} | ||
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* {{Prejudicial}} | * {{Prejudicial}} | ||
* [[Becoming_Gods#Latter-day_Saints_believe_in_Celestial_Sex|"Celestial sex"]] | * [[Becoming_Gods#Latter-day_Saints_believe_in_Celestial_Sex|"Celestial sex"]] | ||
* [[Deification_of_man/Gods_of_their_own_planets|"Rule over worlds of his own creation"?]] | * [[Nature of God/Deification_of_man/Gods_of_their_own_planets|"Rule over worlds of his own creation"?]] | ||
* [[Deification of man|''Theosis'' or human deification]] | * [[Nature of God/Deification of man|''Theosis'' or human deification]] | ||
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* {{CrossRef:Denton:American Massacre|chap=3|pages=26}} | * {{CrossRef:Denton:American Massacre|chap=3|pages=26}} | ||
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* {{AuthorQuote|...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God}}.... | * {{AuthorQuote|...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God}}.... | ||
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* [[../../Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young|Omissions: "total submission"?]] | * [[../../Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young|Omissions: "total submission"?]] | ||
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* {{CrossRef:Krakauer:Under the Banner of Heaven|pages=45}} | * {{CrossRef:Krakauer:Under the Banner of Heaven|pages=45}} | ||
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* Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the ''Expositor''. | * Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the ''Expositor''. | ||
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* [[Nauvoo Expositor]] | * [[Nauvoo Expositor]] | ||
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* Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy. | * Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy. | ||
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* [[Nauvoo Expositor]] | * [[Nauvoo Expositor]] | ||
* [[Joseph Smith | * [[Joseph Smith/Polygamy]] | ||
* [[One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Counterfeiting_apostles_and_Joseph|Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?]] | * [[Specific works/One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Counterfeiting_apostles_and_Joseph|Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?]] | ||
* [[Council of Fifty|Theocracy: Council of Fifty?]] | * [[Council of Fifty|Theocracy: Council of Fifty?]] | ||
* [[ | * [[City of Nauvoo/City charter|Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?]] | ||
* [[ | * [[City of Nauvoo/City charter/Usurpation_of_power|Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?]] | ||
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*{{attn}} Expositor? | *{{attn}} Expositor? | ||
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*[[Nauvoo Expositor]] | *[[Nauvoo Expositor]] | ||
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* {{attn}} | * {{attn}} | ||
*{{CrossRef:Denton:American Massacre|chap=3|pages=27}} | *{{CrossRef:Denton:American Massacre|chap=3|pages=27}} | ||
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* {{AuthorQuote|[Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....}} | * {{AuthorQuote|[Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....}} | ||
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* [[ | * [[Temples/Endowment/Oath of vengeance|Oath of vengeance in temple endowment?]] | ||
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Revision as of 02:27, 20 February 2010
| Front matter | A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church A work by author: Will Bagley
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Chapter 2 |
Claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
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Claim
- 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....
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
Response
- Prejudicial or loaded language
- "Celestial sex"
- "Rule over worlds of his own creation"?
- Theosis or human deification
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Claim
- Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.
Response
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Claim
- Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response
15
Claim
- Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response
- Nauvoo Expositor
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy
- Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?
- Theocracy: Council of Fifty?
- Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?
- Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?
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Claim
- [ATTENTION!] Expositor?
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.
Response
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Claim
- 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....
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response