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Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
| Front matter | A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, a work by author: Will Bagley
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Chapter 2 |
Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following 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....
FAIR's Response
- Prejudicial or loaded language
- Nature of God/"Celestial sex"
- "Rule over worlds of his own creation"?
- Theosis or human deification
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:
Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
FAIR's Response
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:
Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.
FAIR's Response
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- [ATTENTION!]
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:
Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
FAIR's 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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- [ATTENTION!]
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:
[ATTENTION!] Expositor?
FAIR's Response
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following 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....
FAIR's Response
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- [ATTENTION!]
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