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A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods A work by author: Richard Abanes Index of Claims

Use of sources

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Index to claims made in One Nation Under Gods

...after seven years, FAIR has been able to raise only twenty-seven objections to a book weighing in at 651 pages (471 pages of main text + nearly 150 pages of endnotes + bibliography + indexes). Particularly interesting is how most these so-called errors-mistakes (minus the ones too petty to even address) have all been resolved in the paperback version.
—The author, posted on his website "ERRATA FOR ONE NATION UNDER GODS" (Dec. 2008)

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FAIR's original review of One Nation Under Gods was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FAIR reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.)

This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIRwiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.

In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."

• Introduction—
  Responses to claims made in "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy" (xi-xix PB) (Link)
• Chapter 1—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries" (1-22) (Link)
• Chapter 2—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry" (23-40) (Link)
• Chapter 3—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet" (41-58) (Link)
• Chapter 4—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book" (59-80) (Link)
• Chapter 5—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 5: People of Zion" (81-102) (Link)
• Chapter 6—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 6: No Rest for the Righteous" (103-126) (Link)
• Chapter 7—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio" (127-144) (Link)
• Chapter 8—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri" (145-170) (Link)
• Chapter 9—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom" (171-202) (Link)
• Chapter 10—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 10: A New Beginning" (203-224) (Link)
• Chapter 11—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham" (225-254) (Link)
• Chapter 12—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars" (255-280) (Link)
• Chapter 13—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony" (281-310) (Link)
• Chapter 14—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise" (311-328) (Link)
• Chapter 15—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 15: Making the Transition" (329-354) (Link)
• Chapter 16—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful" (355-374) (Link)
• Chapter 17—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?" (375-400) (Link)
• Chapter 18—
  Responses to claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies" (401-436) (Link)
• Postscript—
  Responses to claims made in "Postscript" (437-448) (PB) (Link)
• Appendix A—
  Responses to claims made in "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?" (449-458) (PB) (Link)
• Appendix B—
  Responses to claims made in "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies" (459-465) (Paperback) (Link)
• Appendix C—
  Responses to claims made in "Appendix C: Recommended Resources" (468-471) (Paperback) (Link)
• Notes—
  Responses to claims made in "Notes" (473-617) (PB) (Link)

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• American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows— (Index of claims)
• An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
• Ashamed of Joseph: Mormon Foundations Crumble
• Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism/Inside Today's Mormonism — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Behind the Mask of Mormonism
• Specific works/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Specific works/By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
• Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
  • Answering Mormon Scholars, Vol. 1
  • Answering Mormon Scholars, Vol. 2
• Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
• Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
• Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History
• From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith — (Index of Claims)
• Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
• Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record
• Is the Mormon My Brother?
• Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
• Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd edition)—(Index of claims)
• Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
• The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) — (Index of claims)
• Leaving the Saints
• Letters to a Mormon Elder
• Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
• The Mormon Mirage: Seeing Through the Illusion of Mainstream Mormonism
• Mormonism 101—Index of claims
• Mormonism (Kurt Van Gorden)
• Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)
• The Mysteries of Godliness—A History of Mormon Temple Worship
• Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims—Use of sources—Prejudicial language—Presentism—Mind reading—Censorship—Romance—Assumptions—Magick)
• New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
• New Mormon Challenge
• No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims—Use of Sources—Prejudicial language—Absurd claims—Presentism—Mind reading—Rewording—Omissions—Sarcasm)
• The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844
• Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
• Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
• The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
• Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
• Under the Banner of Heaven — (Index of claims)
• Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture