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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." | *{{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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|claim=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. | *''That'' depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to. | ||
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Revision as of 15:44, 30 June 2017
Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Elizabeth and Ruby"
| [[../Chapter 3|Chapter 3]] | A FAIR Analysis of: [[../../|Under the Banner of Heaven]], a work by author: Jon Krakauer
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[[../Chapter 5|Chapter 5]] |
Response to claim: 45: Latter-day Saints are raised to "obey figures of Mormon authority unquestioningly"
The author(s) of Under the Banner of Heaven make(s) the following 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."
FAIR's Response
Obey Brigham unquestioningly?- Authoritarianism and Church leaders
- Authoritarianism and Church leaders/Quotes
- Compare with similar treatment in Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 9.
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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following 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."
FAIR's 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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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:
The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."
FAIR's Response
- That depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to.
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