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| ==Index to claims made in ''Under the Banner of Heaven''==
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| This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIR Wiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.
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| ===Claims made in "Prologue"===
| | This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within ''FairMormon Answers''. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. |
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| *It is claimed that the Church purchased more than four hundred Hofmann forgeries and then "squirrelled" them "away in a vault to keep them from the public eye."
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| ===Claims made in "Chapter 1: The City of the Saints"===
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| The author states that all information in this chapter is taken from the following references:
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| *{{CriticalWork:Ostling:Mormon America|pages=}}
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| *{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy2|pages=}}
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| *It is claimed that the Church "presents itself as the world's only true religion."
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| *The author claims that "Mormons" consider themselves to be God's "favored children." The book then quotes the phrase: "a peculiar treasure unto me above all people."
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| *The scripture that is quoted is {{s||Exodus|19|5}}:
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| Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
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| *As noted in the chapter introduction from the LDS edition of the King James Bible: "The Lord covenants to make Israel a peculiar treasure, a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." It is unclear why the author uses this scripture to support his claim that "Mormons" consider themselves to be God's "favored children."
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| *{{AuthorQuote|The LDS leadership has worked very hard to persuade both the modern church membership and the American public that polygamy was a quaint, long-abandoned idiosyncrasy practiced by a mere handful of nineteenth-century Mormons.}}
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| *{{FalseStatement}} The following is from the introduction to the official Priesthood and Relief Society lesson manual for 2008-2009, ''Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith'':
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| This book deals with teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith that have application to our day...This book also does not discuss plural marriage. The doctrines and principles relating to plural marriage were revealed to Joseph Smith as early as 1831. The Prophet taught the doctrine of plural marriage, and a number of such marriages were performed during his lifetime. Over the next several decades, under the direction of the Church Presidents who succeeded Joseph Smith, '''a significant number of Church members entered into plural marriages.''' In 1890, President Wilford Woodruff issued the Manifesto, which discontinued plural marriage in the Church (see Official Declaration 1). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints no longer practices plural marriage. {{ea}}
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| *Religious literature does not mention Joseph's marriage to "at least thirty-three women, and probably as many as forty-eight."
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| *The author claims that LDS literature does not mention that Joseph's youngest wife was "just fourteen years old when Joseph explained to her that God had commanded that she marry him or face eternal damnation."
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| * [[Joseph_Smith_and_polygamy/Helen_Mar_Kimball|Helen Mar Kimball]]'s story is here told only with reference to a second-hand, dubious, hostile anti-Mormon version instead of Helen's numerous first-hand accounts.
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| *Joseph is claimed to have taught that "a man needed at least three wives to attain the 'fullness of exaltation' in the afterlife." The author provides the following quote to support this claim:
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| "all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same...and if ye abide not that covenant, then are yet damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory."
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| *The full quote from {{s||DC|132|3-4}}:
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| 3 Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same.
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| 4 For behold, I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.
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| *D&C 132
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| *Polygamy continued to be practiced after the Manifest was issued.
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| *[[Polygamy after the Manifesto]]
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| ===Claims made in "Chapter 4: Elizabeth and Ruby"===
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| *The author claims that Latter-day Saints are raised to "obey figures of Mormon authority unquestioningly, and to believe that LDS doctrine is the law of God."
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| *[[Authoritarianism and Church leaders]]
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| *The author claims that a fourteen-year-old Latter-day Saint girl was forced to wear robes by her kidnapper that "resembled the sacred robes she had donned with her family when they entered the Mormon temple."
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| *{{FalseStatement}} A fourteen-year-old LDS girl's experience with the temple would have only involved performing baptisms for the dead, and would not have required the wearing of any "sacred robes."
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| *The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."
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| *''That'' depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to.
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