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=Source Analysis, Sorted by Page Number=
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All page numbers are currently from the paperback edition of ''One Nation under Gods'' (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002), except where noted.
 
All page numbers are currently from the paperback edition of ''One Nation under Gods'' (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002), except where noted.
 
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{{BeginSourceTable}}
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|link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Dallin H. Oaks on God
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|subject=Dallin H. Oaks on God
====xv (HB)====
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|summary=One critic of Mormonism claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being."
||Boyd K. Packer||BYU Studies 21:264-265||[[/Historical Suppression in the Church|Historical Suppression in the Church]]
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|link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Historical Suppression in the Church
====xv (HB)====
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|subject=Historical Suppression in the Church  
||Allen Roberts||Private Eye Weekly||[[/Calling All Mormon Scholars|Calling All Mormon Scholars]]
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|summary=xv (HB): Boyd K. Packer, BYU Studies 21:264-265
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{{SummaryItem
 
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|link=/Calling All Mormon Scholars
====xvi (HB)====
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|subject=Calling All Mormon Scholars
||John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius||Cultures in Conflict||[[/An Example of Biased Histories|An Example of Biased Histories]]
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|summary=xv (HB): Allen Roberts, Private Eye Weekly
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{{SummaryItem
====xviii (HB)====
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|link=/An Example of Biased Histories
||Fred Esplin||Utah Holiday||[[/The Mormon Quest for Power|The Mormon Quest for Power]]
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|subject=An Example of Biased Histories
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|summary=xvi (HB): John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius, Cultures in Conflict  
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====xx (HB)====
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{{SummaryItem
||Fred Esplin||Utah Holiday||[[/Perception and Reality|Perception and Reality]]
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|link=/The Mormon Quest for Power
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|subject=The Mormon Quest for Power
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|summary=xviii (HB): Fred Esplin, Utah Holiday
====xx (HB)====
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||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 11:249||[[/Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri|Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri]]
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|link=/Perception and Reality
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|subject=Perception and Reality
====xxi (HB)====
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|summary=xx (HB): Fred Esplin, Utah Holiday
||Joseph Smith, Jr.||History of the Church||[[/Destroying Governments and Religions|Destroying Governments and Religions]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri
====xxiv (HB)====
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|subject=Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri
||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses||[[/Morally, ethically, spiritually superior|Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?]]
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|summary= xx (HB): Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 11:249
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{{SummaryItem
 
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|link=/Destroying Governments and Religions
====16====
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|subject=Destroying Governments and Religions
||Richard Abanes||---||[[/"This is My Beloved Son"|"This is My Beloved Son"]]
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|summary= xxi (HB): Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church
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{{SummaryItem
====27====
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|link=/Morally, ethically, spiritually superior
||Lucy Mack Smith||"Preliminary Manuscript" of ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations''||[[/Lucy and the angel|Lucy and the angel]]
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|subject=Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?  
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|summary= xxiv (HB): Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses
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{{SummaryItem
====53====
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|link=/"This is My Beloved Son"
||Richard Abanes||---||[[/Seeing the Plates|Seeing the Plates]]
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|subject="This is My Beloved Son"
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|summary=16: Richard Abanes
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====55====
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{{SummaryItem
||John A. Wilson||Letter to Martin Cowan||[[/Reformed Egyptian|Reformed Egyptian]]
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|link=/Lucy and the angel
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|subject=Lucy and the angel
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|summary=27: Lucy Mack Smith, "Preliminary Manuscript" of ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations''
====64====
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||Lucy Mack Smith||Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations||[[/Tall Tales|Tall Tales]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Seeing the Plates
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|subject=Seeing the Plates
====72====
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|summary=53, Richard Abanes
||Dan Vogel||Early Mormon Documents||[[/Prophetic Autobiography|Prophetic Autobiography]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Reformed Egyptian
====75====
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|subject=Reformed Egyptian
||Dee F. Green||"Book of Mormon Archeology: the Myths and the Alternatives," ''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought'' ||[[/No Book of Mormon archaeology|No Book of Mormon archaeology]]
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|summary=55, John A. Wilson, Letter to Martin Cowan
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{{SummaryItem
====86====
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|link=/Tall Tales
||Brigham Young, John Taylor||''Journal of Discourses''||[[/Christianity is satanic|Christianity is satanic]]
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|subject=Tall Tales
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|summary=64, Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations
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====89====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Divining rods to Kimball and Young|Divining rods to Kimball and Young]]
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|link=/Prophetic Autobiography
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|subject=Prophetic Autobiography
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|summary=72, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents
====95====
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||Albert Chandler||Early Mormon Documents||[[/Those Power-Hungry Mormons|Those Power-Hungry Mormons]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/No Book of Mormon archaeology
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|subject=No Book of Mormon archaeology
====103n2====
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|summary=75, Dee F. Green, "Book of Mormon Archeology: the Myths and the Alternatives," ''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought''
|| || ||[[/Distorted account of three degrees of glory|Distorted account of three degrees of glory]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Christianity is satanic
 
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|subject=Christianity is satanic
====105====
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|summary=86, Brigham Young, John Taylor, ''Journal of Discourses''
|| || ||[[/Haranguing non-Mormons|Haranguing non-Mormons]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Divining rods to Kimball and Young
====110====
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|subject=Divining rods to Kimball and Young
|| || ||[[/Missouri belongs to the Mormons|Missouri belongs to the Mormons]]
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|summary=89
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{{SummaryItem
====116====
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|link=/Those Power-Hungry Mormons
|| || ||[[/Disobey secular law|Disobey secular law]]
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|subject=Those Power-Hungry Mormons
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|summary=95: Albert Chandler, Early Mormon Documents
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{{SummaryItem
====122====
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|link=/Distorted account of three degrees of glory
||Joseph Smith||History of the Church||[[/Redeemed by September 1836|Redeemed by September 1836]]
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|subject=Distorted account of three degrees of glory
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|summary=103n2
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====129====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Joseph gave couples marriage certificates|Joseph gave couples marriage certificates]]
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|link=/Haranguing non-Mormons
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|subject=Haranguing non-Mormons
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|summary=105
====135====
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|| || ||[[/Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland|Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Missouri belongs to the Mormons
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|subject=Missouri belongs to the Mormons
 
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|summary=110
====136====
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|| || ||[[/Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"|Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Disobey secular law
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|subject=Disobey secular law
 
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|summary=116
====171====
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||Joseph Smith, Jr.||History of the Church||[[/Joseph Smith's Narcissism|Joseph Smith's Narcissism]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Redeemed by September 1836
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|subject=Redeemed by September 1836
====174====
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|summary=122: Joseph Smith, History of the Church
||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses||[[/Joseph on par with Jesus Christ|Brigham Young said that Joseph on par with Jesus Christ?]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Joseph gave couples marriage certificates
 
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|subject=Joseph gave couples marriage certificates
====175====
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|summary=129
||Levi Edgar Young||Letter to Sandra Tanner||[[/Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report|Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland
====177====
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|subject=Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland
||Joseph Smith, Jr.||History of the Church||[[/Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"|Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"]]
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|summary=135
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{{SummaryItem
====178====
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|link=/Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"
||Joseph Smith, Jr.||History of the Church||[[/The Wrestling Prophet|The Wrestling Prophet]]
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|subject=Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"
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|summary=136
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====179====
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{{SummaryItem
||Joseph Smith, Jr.||History of the Church||[[/America's Fighting Prophet|America's Fighting Prophet]]
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|link=/Joseph Smith's Narcissism
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|subject=Joseph Smith's Narcissism
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|summary=171: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church
====179====
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|| || ||[[/Joseph hit a baptist preacher|Joseph hit a baptist preacher]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Joseph on par with Jesus Christ
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|subject=Brigham Young said that Joseph on par with Jesus Christ?  
 
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|summary=174: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses
====191====
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|| || ||[[/D and C 98 justifies murder|D and C 98 justifies murder]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report
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|subject=Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report
====192====
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|summary=175: Levi Edgar Young, Letter to Sandra Tanner
|| || ||[[/Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs|Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"
====196====
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|subject=Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"
|| ||History of the Church||[[/Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo|Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo]]
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|summary=177, Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church
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{{SummaryItem
====212====
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|link=/The Wrestling Prophet
|| || ||[[/Nauvoo police violence|Nauvoo police violence]]
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|subject=The Wrestling Prophet
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|summary=178: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church
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{{SummaryItem
====213====
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|link=/America's Fighting Prophet
|| || ||[[/Killing Lambert Symes|Killing Lambert Symes]]
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|subject=America's Fighting Prophet
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|summary=179: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church
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====213====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Irvine Hodge murder|Irvine Hodge murder]]
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|link=/Joseph hit a baptist preacher
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|subject=Joseph hit a baptist preacher
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|summary=179
====213====
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|| || ||[[/Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty|Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/D and C 98 justifies murder
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|subject=D and C 98 justifies murder
 
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|summary=191
====213-214====
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|| || ||[[/Flogging those out of fellowship|Flogging those out of fellowship]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs
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|subject=Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs
 
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|summary=192
====214====
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|| || ||[[/Whistling and Whittling Brigades|Whistling and Whittling Brigades]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo
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|subject=Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo
====216-217====
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|summary=196: History of the Church
|| || ||[[/Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph|Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph]]
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|-
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Nauvoo police violence
 
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|subject=Nauvoo police violence
====220====
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|summary=212
||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 14:205||[[/Brigham, the Dictator|Brigham, the Dictator]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Killing Lambert Symes
====221-222====
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|subject=Killing Lambert Symes
|| || ||[[/Gentiles have no right to property|Gentiles have no right to property]]
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|summary=213
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{{SummaryItem
 
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|link=/Irvine Hodge murder
====222====
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|subject=Irvine Hodge murder
||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 2:310||[[/Brigham and the Kingdom of God|Brigham and the Kingdom of God]]
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|summary=213
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{{SummaryItem
====222====
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|link=/Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty
||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 2:317||[[/Ruling Over the Earth|Ruling Over the Earth]]
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|subject=Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty
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|summary=213
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====223====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Ettie V. Smith|Ettie V. Smith]]
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|link=/Flogging those out of fellowship
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|subject=Flogging those out of fellowship
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|summary=213-214
====223====
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|| || ||[[/Brigham as President of the United States|Brigham as President of the United States]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Whistling and Whittling Brigades
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|subject=Whistling and Whittling Brigades
====223====
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|summary=214
|| || ||[[/Church and state all one now|Church and state all one now]]
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|-
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph
====223====
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|subject=Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph
|| || ||[[/Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation|Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation]]
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|summary=216-217
|-
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{{SummaryItem
 
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|link=/Brigham, the Dictator
====227-228====
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|subject=Brigham, the Dictator
|| || ||[[/Early federal territorial officials|Early federal territorial officials]]
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|summary=220: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 14:205
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{{SummaryItem
====233====
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|link=/Gentiles have no right to property
|| || ||[[/Cutting off from the earth|Cutting off from the earth]]
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|subject=Gentiles have no right to property
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|summary=221-222
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====234-235====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls|Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls]]
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|link=/Brigham and the Kingdom of God
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|subject=Brigham and the Kingdom of God
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|summary=222: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:310
 
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====235====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Apostles killed Judas|Apostles killed Judas]]
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|link=/Ruling Over the Earth
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|subject=Ruling Over the Earth
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|summary=222: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:317
====236 (PB only)====
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|| || ||[[/Brigham and bowie knife|Brigham and bowie knife]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Ettie V. Smith
|
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|subject=Ettie V. Smith
 
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|summary=223
====236-237====
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||Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 2:311||[[/Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"|Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Brigham as President of the United States
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|subject=Brigham as President of the United States
====245====
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|summary=223
||Brigham Young||Personal letter (1857)||[[/Orders to Starve Gentiles|Orders to Starve Gentiles]]
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{{SummaryItem
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|link=/Church and state all one now
====245====
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|subject=Church and state all one now
|| || ||[[/Brigham Young ordered MMM|Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre]]
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|summary=223
|-
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{{SummaryItem
 
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|link=/Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation
====251====
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|subject=Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation
|| || ||[[/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished|Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished]]
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|summary=223
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{{SummaryItem
====260====
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|link=/Early federal territorial officials
|| || ||[[/Blood atone Washington politicians|Blood atone Washington politicians]]
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|subject=Early federal territorial officials
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|summary=227-228
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====266====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Saints sole rulers over every government|Saints sole rulers over every government]]
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|link=/Cutting off from the earth
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|subject=Cutting off from the earth
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|summary=233
====270====
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|| || ||[[/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy|Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls
|
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|subject=Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls
 
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|summary=234-235
====270====
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|| || ||[[/Hyde on US to be divided|Hyde on US to be divided]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Apostles killed Judas
|
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|subject=Apostles killed Judas
====271====
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|summary=235
|| || ||[[/Beating John W. Dawson|Beating John W. Dawson]]
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}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Brigham and bowie knife
====271====
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|subject=Brigham and bowie knife
|| || ||[[/Too much education damaging|Too much education damaging]]
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|summary=236 (PB only)
|-
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{{SummaryItem
====287====
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|link=/Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"
|| || ||[[/Conception of Christ|Conception of Christ]]
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|subject=Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"
|-
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|summary=236-237: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:311
|
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}}
 
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{{SummaryItem
====289====
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|link=/Orders to Starve Gentiles
||Eugene England||Dialogue (Winter 1987)||[[/LDS "Birth Machines"|LDS "Birth Machines"]]
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|subject=Orders to Starve Gentiles
|-
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|summary=245: Brigham Young, Personal letter (1857)
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====295====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Wife swapping|Wife swapping]]
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|link=/Brigham Young ordered MMM
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|subject=Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre
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|summary=245
====301====
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}}
|| || ||[[/Damned without plural marriage|Damned without plural marriage]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished
|
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|subject=Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished
 
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|summary=251
====316====
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}}
|| || ||[[/John Taylor September 1886 revelation|John Taylor September 1886 revelation]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Blood atone Washington politicians
|
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|subject=Blood atone Washington politicians
====317====
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|summary=260
|| || ||[[/Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood|Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood]]
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}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Saints sole rulers over every government
 
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|subject=Saints sole rulers over every government
====320====
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|summary=266
|| || ||[[/Demolish Endowment House|Wilford Woodruff demolished Endowment House?]]
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}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
====325====
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|subject=Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
|| || ||[[/Above the law|Above the law]]
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|summary=270
|-
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}}
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{{SummaryItem
====331====
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|link=/Hyde on US to be divided
|| || ||[[/Approved marriages 1890-1899|Approved marriages 1890-1899]]
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|subject=Hyde on US to be divided
|-
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|summary=270
|
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}}
 
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{{SummaryItem
====334====
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|link=/Beating John W. Dawson
|| || ||[[/Vengeance hymns|Vengeance hymns]]
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|subject=Beating John W. Dawson
|-
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|summary=271
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}}
====339====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Joseph F. Smith finally admits|Joseph F. Smith finally admits]]
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|link=/Too much education damaging
|-
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|subject=Too much education damaging
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|summary=271
====355-372====
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}}
|| || ||[[/Double standard on race|Double standard on race]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/Conception of Christ
|
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|subject=Conception of Christ
 
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|summary=287
====358-360====
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}}
|| || ||[[/Mormon Doctrine and race issues|Mormon Doctrine and race issues]]
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{{SummaryItem
|-
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|link=/LDS "Birth Machines"
|
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|subject=LDS "Birth Machines"
====379-380====
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|summary=289: Eugene England, Dialogue (Winter 1987)
|| || ||[[/Special relationship with Christ|Special relationship with Christ]]
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|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Wife swapping
 
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|subject=Wife swapping
====380====
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|summary=295
|| || ||[[/Natural before spiritual|Natural before spiritual]]
+
}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Damned without plural marriage
 
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|subject=Damned without plural marriage
====383-384====
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|summary=301
|| || ||[[/Orson Pratt condemns the Bible|Orson Pratt condemns the Bible]]
+
}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/John Taylor September 1886 revelation
 
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|subject=John Taylor September 1886 revelation
====389====
+
|summary=316
||Gordon B. Hinckley||General Conference (1997)||[[/Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine|Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine]]
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}}
|-
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{{SummaryItem
|
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|link=/Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood
====406====
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|subject=Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood
|| || ||[[/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy|Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy]]
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|summary=317
|-
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}}
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{{SummaryItem
====406====
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|link=/Demolish Endowment House
|| || ||[[/Stephen A. Douglas prophecy|Stephen A. Douglas prophecy]]
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|subject=Wilford Woodruff demolished Endowment House?
|-
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|summary=320
|
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}}
====407====
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{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Most accurate history in all the world|Most accurate history in all the world]]
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|link=/Above the law
|-
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|subject=Above the law
|
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|summary=325
 
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}}
====408====
+
{{SummaryItem
||Hugh Nibley||Personal letter (1966)||[[/Advertising for the Tanners|Advertising for the Tanners]]
+
|link=/Approved marriages 1890-1899
|-
+
|subject=Approved marriages 1890-1899
|
+
|summary=331
====414====
+
}}
||Ezra Taft Benson||Conference Report (October 1987)||[[/The LDS as Mindless Followers|The LDS as Mindless Followers]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Vengeance hymns
|
+
|subject=Vengeance hymns
====418====
+
|summary=334
|| || ||[[/President Hinckley and enemies of the Church|President Hinckley and enemies of the Church]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|
+
|link=/Joseph F. Smith finally admits
====424====
+
|subject=Joseph F. Smith finally admits
|| || ||[[/Church leaders will always know deception|Church leaders will always know deception]]
+
|summary=339
|-
+
}}
|
+
{{SummaryItem
====443 (PB)====
+
|link=/Double standard on race
|| || ||[[/Poisoning myth|Poisoning myth]]
+
|subject=Double standard on race
|-
+
|summary=355-372
|
+
}}
====443 (PB)====
+
{{SummaryItem
|| || ||[[/Brigham Young on thieves|Brigham Young on thieves]]
+
|link=/Mormon Doctrine and race issues
|-
+
|subject=Mormon Doctrine and race issues
|
+
|summary=358-360
====441 (PB)====
+
}}
|| || ||[[/Boyd K. Packer on the truth|Boyd K. Packer on the truth]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Special relationship with Christ
|
+
|subject=Special relationship with Christ
 
+
|summary=379-380
====475====
+
}}
||Joseph Smith, Jr.||The Articles of Faith||[[/The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith|The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|}
+
|link=/Natural before spiritual
 
+
|subject=Natural before spiritual
<!-- Commenting out for now
+
|summary=380
=Source Analysis, Sorted by Source=
+
}}
All page numbers are from One Nation under Gods (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002)
+
{{SummaryItem
 
+
|link=/Orson Pratt condemns the Bible
{| valign="top" border="1" style="width:100%; font-size:85%"
+
|subject=Orson Pratt condemns the Bible
!width="30%"|Source cited
+
|summary=383-384
!width="30%"|Person Cited
+
}}
!width="10%"|Page
+
{{SummaryItem
!width="30%"|Article
+
|link=/Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine
|-
+
|subject=Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine
| ---||Richard Abanes||53||[[/Seeing the Plates|Seeing the Plates]]
+
|summary=389: Gordon B. Hinckley, General Conference (1997)
|-
+
}}
|The Articles of Faith||Joseph Smith, Jr.||475||[[/The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith|The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy
|Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations||Lucy Mack Smith||64||[[/Tall Tales|Tall Tales]]
+
|subject=Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy
|-
+
|summary=406
|BYU Studies 21:264-265||Boyd K. Packer||xv||[[/Historical Suppression in the Church|Historical Suppression in the Church]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|Conference Report (October 1987)||Ezra Taft Benson||414||[[/The LDS as Mindless Followers|The LDS as Mindless Followers]]
+
|link=/Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
|-
+
|subject=Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
|Cultures in Conflict||John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius||xvi||[[/An Example of Biased Histories|An Example of Biased Histories]]
+
|summary=406
|-
+
}}
|Dialogue (Winter 1987)||Eugene England||289||[[/LDS "Birth Machines"|LDS "Birth Machines"]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Most accurate history in all the world
|Early Mormon Documents||Albert Chandler||95||[[/Those Power-Hungry Mormons|Those Power-Hungry Mormons]]
+
|subject=Most accurate history in all the world
|-
+
|summary=407
|Early Mormon Documents||Dan Vogel||72||[[/Prophetic Autobiography|Prophetic Autobiography]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|General Conference (1997)||Gordon B. Hinckley||389||[[/Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine|Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine]]
+
|link=/Advertising for the Tanners
|-
+
|subject=Advertising for the Tanners
|History of the Church||Joseph Smith, Jr.||xxi||[[/Destroying Governments and Religions|Destroying Governments and Religions]]
+
|summary=408: Hugh Nibley, Personal letter (1966)
|-
+
}}
|History of the Church||Joseph Smith, Jr.||171||[[/Joseph Smith's Narcissism|Joseph Smith's Narcissism]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/The LDS as Mindless Followers
|History of the Church||Joseph Smith, Jr.||177||[[/Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"|Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"]]
+
|subject=The LDS as Mindless Followers
|-
+
|summary=414: Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report (October 1987)
|History of the Church||Joseph Smith, Jr.||178||[[/The Wrestling Prophet|The Wrestling Prophet]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|History of the Church||Joseph Smith, Jr.||179||[[/America's Fighting Prophet|America's Fighting Prophet]]
+
|link=/President Hinckley and enemies of the Church
|-
+
|subject=President Hinckley and enemies of the Church
|Journal of Discourses 2:310||Brigham Young||222||[[/Brigham and the Kingdom of God|Brigham and the Kingdom of God]]
+
|summary=418
|-
+
}}
|Journal of Discourses 2:311||Brigham Young||245||[[/Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"|Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Church leaders will always know deception
|Journal of Discourses 2:317||Brigham Young||222||[[/Ruling Over the Earth|Ruling Over the Earth]]
+
|subject=Church leaders will always know deception
|-
+
|summary=424
|Journal of Discourses 4:269||Brigham Young||xxiv||[[/Morally, ethically, spiritually superior|Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|Journal of Discourses 11:249||Brigham Young||xx||[[/Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri|Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri]]
+
|link=/Poisoning myth
|-
+
|subject=Poisoning myth
|Journal of Discourses 14:205||Brigham Young||220||[[/Brigham, the Dictator|Brigham, the Dictator]]
+
|summary=443 (PB)
|-
+
}}
|Letter to Martin Cowan||John A. Wilson||55||[[/Reformed Egyptian|Reformed Egyptian]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/Brigham Young on thieves
|Letter to Sandra Tanner||Levi Edgar Young||175||[[/Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report|Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report]]
+
|subject=Brigham Young on thieves
|-
+
|summary=443 (PB)
|Personal letter (1857)||Brigham Young||245||[[/Orders to Starve Gentiles|Orders to Starve Gentiles]]
+
}}
|-
+
{{SummaryItem
|Personal letter (1966)||Hugh Nibley||408||[[/Advertising for the Tanners|Advertising for the Tanners]]
+
|link=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Boyd K. Packer on the truth
|-
+
|subject=Boyd K. Packer on the truth
|Private Eye Weekly||Allen Roberts||xv||[[/Calling All Mormon Scholars|Calling All Mormon Scholars]]
+
|summary=441 (PB)
|-
+
}}
|Utah Holiday||Fred Esplin||xviii||[[/The Mormon Quest for Power|The Mormon Quest for Power]]
+
{{SummaryItem
|-
+
|link=/The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith
|Utah Holiday||Fred Esplin||xx||[[/Perception and Reality|Perception and Reality]]
+
|subject=The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith
|}
+
|summary=475: Joseph Smith, Jr., The Articles of Faith
 
+
}}
=Source Analysis, Sorted by Person=
 
All page numbers are from One Nation under Gods (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002)
 
 
 
{| valign="top" border="1" style="width:100%; font-size:85%"
 
!width="30%"|Person cited
 
!width="30%"|Source Cited
 
!width="10%"|Page
 
!width="30%"|Article
 
|-
 
|Abanes, Richard||---||53||[[/Seeing the Plates|Seeing the Plates]]
 
|-
 
|Benson, Ezra Taft||Conference Report (October 1987)||414||[[/The LDS as Mindless Followers|The LDS as Mindless Followers]]
 
|-
 
|Chandler, Albert||Early Mormon Documents||95||[[/Those Power-Hungry Mormons|Those Power-Hungry Mormons]]
 
|-
 
|England, Eugene||Dialogue (Winter 1987)||289||[[/LDS "Birth Machines"|LDS "Birth Machines"]]
 
|-
 
|Esplin, Fred||Utah Holiday||xviii||[[/The Mormon Quest for Power|The Mormon Quest for Power]]
 
|-
 
|Esplin, Fred||Utah Holiday||xx||[[/Perception and Reality|Perception and Reality]]
 
|-
 
|Hallwas, John E.||Cultures in Conflict||xvi||[[/An Example of Biased Histories|An Example of Biased Histories]]
 
|-
 
|Hinckley, Gordon B.||General Conference (1997)||389||[[/Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine|Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine]]
 
|-
 
|Launius, Roger D.||Cultures in Conflict||xvi||[[/An Example of Biased Histories|An Example of Biased Histories]]
 
|-
 
|Nibley, Hugh||Personal letter (1966)||408||[[/Advertising for the Tanners|Advertising for the Tanners]]
 
|-
 
|Packer, Boyd K.||BYU Studies 21:264-265||xv||[[/Historical Suppression in the Church|Historical Suppression in the Church]]
 
|-
 
|Roberts, Allen||Private Eye Weekly||xv||[[/Calling All Mormon Scholars|Calling All Mormon Scholars]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||The Articles of Faith||475||[[/The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith|The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||History of the Church||xxi||[[/Destroying Governments and Religions|Destroying Governments and Religions]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||History of the Church||171||[[/Joseph Smith's Narcissism|Joseph Smith's Narcissism]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||History of the Church||177||[[/Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"|Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||History of the Church||178||[[/The Wrestling Prophet|The Wrestling Prophet]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Joseph Jr.||History of the Church||179||[[/America's Fighting Prophet|America's Fighting Prophet]]
 
|-
 
|Smith, Lucy Mack||Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations||64||[[/Tall Tales|Tall Tales]]
 
|-
 
|Vogel, Dan||Early Mormon Documents||72||[[/Prophetic Autobiography|Prophetic Autobiography]]
 
|-
 
|Wilson, John A.||Letter to Martin Cowan||55||[[/Reformed Egyptian|Reformed Egyptian]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Journal of Discourses 2:310||222||[[/Brigham and the Kingdom of God|Brigham and the Kingdom of God]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Journal of Discourses 2:311||245||[[/Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"|Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Journal of Discourses 2:317||222||[[/Ruling Over the Earth|Ruling Over the Earth]]
 
|-
 
|Brigham Young||Journal of Discourses 4:269||xxiv||[[/Morally, ethically, spiritually superior|Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Journal of Discourses 11:249||xx||[[/Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri|Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Journal of Discourses 14:205||220||[[/Brigham, the Dictator|Brigham, the Dictator]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Brigham||Personal letter (1857)||245||[[/Orders to Starve Gentiles|Orders to Starve Gentiles]]
 
|-
 
|Young, Levi Edgar||Letter to Sandra Tanner||175||[[/Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report|Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report]]
 
|}
 
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Contents

One Nation Under Gods: Source Analysis, Sorted by Page Number



A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods, a work by author: Richard Abanes

All page numbers are currently from the paperback edition of One Nation under Gods (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002), except where noted.

Dallin H. Oaks on God

Summary: One critic of Mormonism claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being."

Historical Suppression in the Church

Summary: xv (HB): Boyd K. Packer, BYU Studies 21:264-265

Calling All Mormon Scholars

Summary: xv (HB): Allen Roberts, Private Eye Weekly

An Example of Biased Histories

Summary: xvi (HB): John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius, Cultures in Conflict

The Mormon Quest for Power

Summary: xviii (HB): Fred Esplin, Utah Holiday

Perception and Reality

Summary: xx (HB): Fred Esplin, Utah Holiday

Christ Setting up a Theocracy in Missouri

Summary: xx (HB): Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 11:249

Destroying Governments and Religions

Summary: xxi (HB): Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

Morally, ethically, spiritually superior?

Summary: xxiv (HB): Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses

"This is My Beloved Son"

Summary: 16: Richard Abanes

Lucy and the angel

Summary: 27: Lucy Mack Smith, "Preliminary Manuscript" of Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations

Seeing the Plates

Summary: 53, Richard Abanes

Reformed Egyptian

Summary: 55, John A. Wilson, Letter to Martin Cowan

Tall Tales

Summary: 64, Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for many Generations

Prophetic Autobiography

Summary: 72, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents

No Book of Mormon archaeology

Summary: 75, Dee F. Green, "Book of Mormon Archeology: the Myths and the Alternatives," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Christianity is satanic

Summary: 86, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses

Divining rods to Kimball and Young

Summary: 89

Those Power-Hungry Mormons

Summary: 95: Albert Chandler, Early Mormon Documents

Distorted account of three degrees of glory

Summary: 103n2

Haranguing non-Mormons

Summary: 105

Missouri belongs to the Mormons

Summary: 110

Disobey secular law

Summary: 116

Redeemed by September 1836

Summary: 122: Joseph Smith, History of the Church

Joseph gave couples marriage certificates

Summary: 129

Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland

Summary: 135

Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"

Summary: 136

Joseph Smith's Narcissism

Summary: 171: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

Brigham Young said that Joseph on par with Jesus Christ?

Summary: 174: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses

Thou Shalt Not Raise a False Report

Summary: 175: Levi Edgar Young, Letter to Sandra Tanner

Joseph's "Grandiose Sense of Self Importance"

Summary: 177, Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

The Wrestling Prophet

Summary: 178: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

America's Fighting Prophet

Summary: 179: Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church

Joseph hit a baptist preacher

Summary: 179

D and C 98 justifies murder

Summary: 191

Rockwell admitting to shooting Boggs

Summary: 192

Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo

Summary: 196: History of the Church

Nauvoo police violence

Summary: 212

Killing Lambert Symes

Summary: 213

Irvine Hodge murder

Summary: 213

Other homicides by members of the Council of Fifty

Summary: 213

Flogging those out of fellowship

Summary: 213-214

Whistling and Whittling Brigades

Summary: 214

Counterfeiting apostles and Joseph

Summary: 216-217

Brigham, the Dictator

Summary: 220: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 14:205

Gentiles have no right to property

Summary: 221-222

Brigham and the Kingdom of God

Summary: 222: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:310

Ruling Over the Earth

Summary: 222: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:317

Ettie V. Smith

Summary: 223

Brigham as President of the United States

Summary: 223

Church and state all one now

Summary: 223

Heber C. Kimball--violence and intimidation

Summary: 223

Early federal territorial officials

Summary: 227-228

Cutting off from the earth

Summary: 233

Murder unfaithful Mormons to save souls

Summary: 234-235

Apostles killed Judas

Summary: 235

Brigham and bowie knife

Summary: 236 (PB only)

Brigham Says to "Cut Their Throats"

Summary: 236-237: Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:311

Orders to Starve Gentiles

Summary: 245: Brigham Young, Personal letter (1857)

Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre

Summary: 245

Brigham Young orders MMM monument demolished

Summary: 251

Blood atone Washington politicians

Summary: 260

Saints sole rulers over every government

Summary: 266

Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy

Summary: 270

Hyde on US to be divided

Summary: 270

Beating John W. Dawson

Summary: 271

Too much education damaging

Summary: 271

Conception of Christ

Summary: 287

LDS "Birth Machines"

Summary: 289: Eugene England, Dialogue (Winter 1987)

Wife swapping

Summary: 295

Damned without plural marriage

Summary: 301

John Taylor September 1886 revelation

Summary: 316

Polygamy absolutely essential to godhood

Summary: 317

Wilford Woodruff demolished Endowment House?

Summary: 320

Above the law

Summary: 325

Approved marriages 1890-1899

Summary: 331

Vengeance hymns

Summary: 334

Joseph F. Smith finally admits

Summary: 339

Double standard on race

Summary: 355-372

Mormon Doctrine and race issues

Summary: 358-360

Special relationship with Christ

Summary: 379-380

Natural before spiritual

Summary: 380

Orson Pratt condemns the Bible

Summary: 383-384

Gordon B. Hinckley Understands Doctrine

Summary: 389: Gordon B. Hinckley, General Conference (1997)

Forged Rocky Mountain prophecy

Summary: 406

Stephen A. Douglas prophecy

Summary: 406

Most accurate history in all the world

Summary: 407

Advertising for the Tanners

Summary: 408: Hugh Nibley, Personal letter (1966)

The LDS as Mindless Followers

Summary: 414: Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report (October 1987)

President Hinckley and enemies of the Church

Summary: 418

Church leaders will always know deception

Summary: 424

Poisoning myth

Summary: 443 (PB)

Brigham Young on thieves

Summary: 443 (PB)

Boyd K. Packer on the truth

Summary: 441 (PB)

The Anti-Mormon Articles of Faith

Summary: 475: Joseph Smith, Jr., The Articles of Faith