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| + | ||Boyd K. Packer said: "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth." | ||
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| + | *Roger D. Launius, Book Review, ''Journal of the West'', reproduced online at Signature Books. | ||
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| + | ||"Some of the harshest criticism I received from Mormons came from those who were irate over my depiction of Brigham Youngg....then I acquired a new book dealing with the issue—''Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by independent historian and ''Salt Lake Tribune'' columnist Will Bagley....This tremendously in-dept volume not only supported my perspective, but greatly expanded on my conclusions..." | ||
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Revision as of 11:19, 10 January 2009
| Claims made in "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies" | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Claims made in "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?" |
Claims made in "Postscript" (paperback only)
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437, n2 |
Quoting Whelan: "[T]here still remains within the Church a limited form of plural marriage. Those husbands who have lost a beloved spouse and are left alone in this world can still be married for time and eternity to another wife....It is clear that all marriages continued in heaven will involve participation in plural marriage." |
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"[M]ore than a few Mormons, although they had never actually read my book, declared without hesitation that it was rife with errors." |
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441, n10 |
Boyd K. Packer said: "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth." |
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442, n14 |
"Some of the harshest criticism I received from Mormons came from those who were irate over my depiction of Brigham Youngg....then I acquired a new book dealing with the issue—Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by independent historian and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Will Bagley....This tremendously in-dept volume not only supported my perspective, but greatly expanded on my conclusions..." |
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