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- ...only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations"]]242 bytes (38 words) - 16:46, 3 December 2019
- ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"]]162 bytes (29 words) - 16:50, 3 December 2019
- ...Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities"]]146 bytes (20 words) - 21:20, 3 December 2019
- ...l sources box:Book of Mormon/Plagiarism accusations/Place names from North America/CriticalSources]]128 bytes (16 words) - 23:18, 28 April 2024
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- ...its publication. It was likely included to counter the perception that the Mormon's practice of communal property (the "law of consecration") included a comm [[Category:Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]11 KB (1,742 words) - 20:33, 17 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise |H=Response to ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise''8 KB (1,162 words) - 22:45, 11 May 2024
- #REDIRECT [[Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]84 bytes (12 words) - 18:44, 5 February 2017
- |L2=Question: Have Mormon apologists ignored aspects of Quetzalcoatl which are inconsistent with Jesu {{:Question: Have Mormon apologists ignored aspects of Quetzalcoatl which are inconsistent with Jesu2 KB (353 words) - 16:17, 30 April 2024
- ...eadquarters in Salt Lake City; protesters showed up en masse to intimidate Mormon small-business owners who supported the measure; a website was created to i {{Epigraph|The Mormon church has had to rely on our tolerance in the past, to be able to express39 KB (5,785 words) - 15:02, 13 April 2024
- |link=/Calling All Mormon Scholars |subject=Calling All Mormon Scholars12 KB (1,620 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../Calling All Mormon Scholars|Calling All Mormon Scholars]] |>=[[../The Mormon Quest for Power|The Mormon Quest for Power]]12 KB (1,905 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...ared that at Christ's second coming, he would '''return to''' "the land of America" (Brigham Young, December 23, 1866, JOD [Liverpool: B. Young, Jr.; lithogra ...hat at Christ's second coming, he would '''first appear''' in "the land of America" (Brigham Young, December 23, 1866, JOD [Liverpool: B. Young, Jr., 1867; li3 KB (505 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...ONUG was first published, the author posted the following statement on the Mormon Apologetics Discussion Board in response to challenges about the accuracy o ...b5cadd3769e01adb6f0&showtopic=39797&view=findpost&p=1208551468 Posted to ''Mormon Apologetics and Discussion Board''], '''Dec. 4, 2008'''12 KB (2,053 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- |L13=Response to claim: xiii - "...today, in official Mormon circles, Smith's granting of favors to chosen followers, allowing them to t ...f information, first in Illinois and later in Utah, left a brief window in Mormon history from which most of the documentation has been recovered"18 KB (2,593 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...he "White Horse" prophecy predicts that the U.S. government will become a "Mormon-ruled theocracy" ...da|The assertion by the author that "some of the least reliable reports on Mormon history" are those "produced by the LDS church" is very interesting in ligh12 KB (1,771 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...48, 503n25 (HB) - Did Joseph decide to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme? ...to claim: 503n25 (HB) - Joseph tried to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in Canada27 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...(HB,PB) - Was Joseph inspired by the "mound builders" to write the Book of Mormon? ...6, 511n31 (HB); 509n31 (PB) - According to Alexander Campbell, the Book of Mormon "commented on nearly 'every error and almost every truth discussed in New Y33 KB (5,102 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L4=Response to claim: 231 - The author claims that the "Mormon reformation" a period of subjugation and brutal acts of violence designed t ...ly shot and killed for the crime of "falling in love with, and marrying, a Mormon"42 KB (6,478 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |L1=Response to claim: 402 (PB) - Does the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "proselytize unsuspecting music lovers"? |L2=Response to claim: 403 - "The general public, especially outside America, still possesses little knowledge of the unsavory nature of Mormonism"36 KB (5,451 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L2=Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage" ==Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage"==18 KB (2,890 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Chapter 16|Claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"]] ...Manifesto: Mormon Polygamy 1890-1906," in D. Michael Quinn, ed., ''The New Mormon History'', 203-204.16 KB (2,483 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful" |H=Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is ''Not'' Beautiful"28 KB (4,263 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...statement that "no man knows my history" resulted in "endless suspicion by Mormon historians and non-Mormons"]] ...n earth"|Response to claim: 182 - Joseph Smith proclaimed that the Book of Mormon "is the most correct of any book on earth"]]118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- *Bruce R. McConkie, ''Mormon Doctrine'' (1958; second edition, 1966), p. 132. ...Kent Jackson from the ''Ensign'', and the second is Bruce R. McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine''. There is nothing in either of these articles which argues that6 KB (951 words) - 21:53, 9 May 2024
- ...ophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations'', cited in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', vol. 1, 289-291. ...on does not mean that there was no such vision. Likewise, when the Book of Mormon vision is the only one given, it is not correct to refer to it as the first6 KB (993 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- ...mpt a naturalistic explanation of Joseph Smith's production of the Book of Mormon often resort to claiming that Joseph gleaned a certain idea from a book or * [[Book of Mormon and the Golden Pot]]8 KB (1,135 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?== ===Anti-Mormon authors of the 19th century usually invoked the terrible "Danites" in their13 KB (2,167 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Mormon Doctrine and race issues|McConkie's ''Mormon Doctrine'' and race issues]] ...Smith, ''Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).</ref>{{Rp|170}}16 KB (2,472 words) - 16:54, 30 April 2024
- Mormon appeals for federal intervention in the Missouri persecutions were answered ....C. and Philadelphia where he foretold pending states’ rights issues for America:25 KB (4,401 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l |L13=BOOKS OF MORMON66 KB (11,956 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6 |T=[[../../|An Insider's View of Mormon Origins]]33 KB (5,205 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?== The Church was not the only organization in America to oppose the ERA. Religious groups sponsored by Catholic and other Christ16 KB (2,637 words) - 22:04, 9 May 2024
- ...ildren…The redemption of Zion is the redemption of all N[orth] & S[outh] America."<ref>{{BYUS1|author=Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, [edited by Dean C. Jessee] ...y named Zion will be built near Jackson County, Missouri (United States of America), to which the tribes of Israel will gather ({{s||D&C|103|11-22}}; {{s||D&C5 KB (772 words) - 19:44, 1 May 2024
- ...piritual generation.' Mormons avoided the idiom but not the practice." "…Mormon communal practices extended to property as well as to marriage." #{{CriticalWork:Van Wagoner:Mormon Polygamy|pages=8}}26 KB (4,113 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...rtrayals to be highly inaccurate. In fact, there is ample evidence of anti-Mormon "advice" present in the episode. We treat some of these in the following se ...the sequence was an integral part of the plot and that they had used an ex-Mormon advisor who was "familiar with temple practices and rituals," and "was actu22 KB (3,737 words) - 22:05, 9 May 2024
- ==Question: What are Joseph Smith's statements about Book of Mormon geography between 1829-1840?== ===Joseph Smith made statements consistent with a wide variety of Book of Mormon geographies===10 KB (1,654 words) - 14:05, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"== ===1841 Anti-Mormon Almanac for the year 1842===31 KB (4,585 words) - 12:04, 27 April 2024
- ===Claims made in the seminar "Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences=== ...nter claims that Central America has become a popular location for Book of Mormon lands because they had a "high culture." The presenter asks: "When have the2 KB (256 words) - 14:08, 13 April 2024
- ...laimed that the reference to "this country" refers to the United States of America. One must remember that the United States was much smaller at this time. *See {{FAIR:Reviews of DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography:Joseph Smith}}8 KB (1,256 words) - 14:08, 13 April 2024
- ...ren...'''The redemption of Zion is the redemption of all N[orth] & S[outh] America.'''" {{ea}} <ref>{{BYUS1|author=Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, [edited by Dean *Other latter-day prophets have declared that North and South America constitute the land of Zion: see [[Location of Zion]].4 KB (591 words) - 14:08, 13 April 2024
- ...ocean currents would have carried Lehi's group to the East Coast of North America. *The Book of Mormon states that Lehi's ship was driven by the wind: "And it came to pass after5 KB (795 words) - 14:08, 13 April 2024
- |L=Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/"Discounting" or "disdaining" Joseph Smith |T=DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD); Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences (Seminar)2 KB (306 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- |L=Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/DNA science error and misrepresentation |T=DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD); Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences (Seminar)11 KB (1,804 words) - 22:06, 9 May 2024
- ...any archaeological, anthropological or linguistic evidence of the Book of Mormon chronicles" ...the Mormon Church declare that there is no evidence to support the Book of Mormon narrative?"53 KB (8,529 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...ends has been repeatedly mentioned. This includes statements by LDS, anti-Mormon, and other secular sources even from a very early period, demonstrating tha ...ton, Illinois, ''An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, and Hyram Smith, his brother, together with a Brief History of the17 KB (2,537 words) - 22:33, 28 April 2024
- ...have discovered Jesus and come to know him through the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the teachings of ...actions of a small minority of Evangelicals—those who engage in anti-Mormon polemics and tactics—do little to enhance the reputation of Evangelic16 KB (2,615 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- |L=Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of scripture use |H=Book of Mormon and <em>View of the Hebrews</em>: Analysis of scripture use22 KB (3,645 words) - 14:04, 13 April 2024
- #{{CriticalWork:Ostling:Mormon America|pages=}} *{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy2|pages=}}17 KB (2,512 words) - 23:07, 11 May 2024
- ==Question: What is the Book of Mormon?== ===The Book of Mormon is one of four books considered to be scripture by The Church of Jesus Chri22 KB (3,753 words) - 15:34, 13 April 2024
- ...onse to claim: 23 - "Having suffered beatings and tarrings at the hands of Mormon baiters years earlier, and having faced impending death at various juncture ...im: 24 - The Council of Fifty was "a group of princes" who would rule the "Mormon empire"27 KB (4,121 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L3=Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Book of Mormon |L5=Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon authorship theories70 KB (10,752 words) - 04:18, 16 May 2024
- ...shed ''in England'' until fifty years after the publication of the Book of Mormon, yet does not inform the reader that this citation can have absolutely noth ...'s book and teachings were also widely available to Smith's generation [in America]."5 KB (721 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../Chapter 1|Claims made in "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"]] **Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'', 1:618, 607, 607n14, 599.5 KB (754 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- |L=Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims |T=DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD); Introduction to Book of Mormon Evidences (Seminar)32 KB (4,968 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024