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A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../../|Under the Banner of Heaven]]
A work by author: Jon Krakauer


Claims made in "Chapter 4: Elizabeth and Ruby"

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Claim
  • 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."

Author's source(s)
Response

45

Claim
  • 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."

Response
  •  The author's claim is false 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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Claim
  • The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."

Response
  • That depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to.