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Revision as of 20:47, 16 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
 Claims made in "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?"

Claims made in "Postscript" (paperback only)

Page Claim Response Author's sources

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."
  • It is not clear what the author hopes to demonstrate by this claim, or why Shane Whelan's view carries any weight beyond his own opinions.
  • Shane LeGrand Whelan, More Than One: Plural Marriage—A Sacred Heritage, A Promise for Tomorrow, 208.

438

 "[M]ore than a few Mormons, although they had never actually read my book, declared without hesitation that it was rife with errors."
  • FAIR can assure the author that we have read his book, and can declare without hesitation that both the hardbound and paperback version are rife with errors.
  • Author's statement.

441, n10

 Boyd K. Packer said: "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth."
  • Roger D. Launius, Book Review, Journal of the West, reproduced online at Signature Books.

442, n14

 "Some of the harshest criticism I received from Mormons came from those who were irate over my depiction of Brigham Young....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-depth volume not only supported my perspective, but greatly expanded on my conclusions..."
  • Author's statement.

442

 "Bagley...demonstrated that...LDS leaders, including Young, probably had a hand in the planning and execution of the Mountain Meadows Massacre...Young likely entreated the Indians, albeit with great subtlety, to attack the Baker-Fancher company..."
  • Author's conclusion based upon Bagley's conclusion.

442

 Bagley, referring to a statement made by Quinn, said "The decision to do whatever was necessary to build the kingdom 'encouraged Mormons to consider it their religious right to kill antagonistic outsiders, common criminals, LDS apostates, and even faithful Mormons who committed sins worthy of death.'"
  • Bagley, 42.

443

 "Bagley also proved the charge often dismissed by faithful LDS church members that the Saints in 1857 refused to sell provisions to the Baker-Fancher wagon train."
  • Author's opinion.

443
  •  Author's quote: "Blood of the Prophets once and for all dispelled the long-standing Mormon myth that members of the doomed company poisoned an important cattle stream, thereby almost deserving their fate."
  • Author's opinion.

443, 615n15 (PB)

 Bagley states "In their desire to exonerate Brigham Young of any guilt, official Mormon accounts of the crime laid the blame on victims and Indians, a tradition that is alive and well today."
  • Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • Use of sources: Brigham Young ordered Mountain Meadows Massacre?
  • The closest thing to an "official Mormon account" of the massacre is probably an Ensign article: "some 50 to 60 local militiamen in southern Utah, aided by American Indian allies, massacred about 120 emigrants who were traveling by wagon to California. The horrific crime, which spared only 17 children age six and under, occurred in a highland valley called the Mountain Meadows...."[1]
  • A new book coauthored by Turley expresses similar views.[2]
  • See link in previous row which demonstrates that some LDS historians have not 'blamed' the victims.
  • Bagley, xvii.

443, 615n16-18

 Brigham said "[W]hen a man is found to be a thief, he will be a thief no longer, cut his throat, & thro' him in the River."
  • Instruction to Bishops, quoted in Thomas Bullock diary, December 13, 1846. Cited in D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Signature Books, 1994), 657.;
  • History of the Church, 7:597. Volume 7 link
  • Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet, 182.
  • Thomas G. Alexander, "Wilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Summer 1992), vol. 25, no. 2, 27.

444-446, n23-24

 Past LDS leaders held racist views.

446

 "Of course, when any religion or denomination is tainted by the stain of racism, it always leaves future members in a very awkward position. And to be fair, Mormonism is not alone in this predicament. A number of Christian denominations (e.g. the Southern Baptists) have had to work very hard at racial reconciliation, often using public declarations to repudiate past racist statements by leaders."
  • There is, "of course," no hint of this perspective in the chapter branding members of the Church as racists with a "white supremacist" theology.
  • ONUG's double standard on race
  • N/A

447, 616n31

 Gordon B. Hinckley "admitted in April 2002 that Mormons do not believe in the same 'Jesus' revered throughout Christendom. According to Hinckley, Christendom's concept of Christ comes not from the Bible, but from corrupt traditions of men....The LDS concept of God, instead, comes from Smith's alleged 1820 vision."

448, 616n34

 Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being."

Endnotes

  1. [note]  Richard E. Turley, Jr., "The Mountain Meadows Massacre," Ensign (September 2007): 14.off-site
  2. [note]  Turley, Walker and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 1. This work notes: "One approach [to recounting the massacre] portrays the perpetrators as good people and the victims as evil ones who committed outrages during their travel through central and southern Utah. Some descendants of the perpetrators and several Mormon historians have adopted this approach because it seems, on the surface, to excuse or soften what happened....Readers of our book will find little sympathy for...[this] approach..." (xii-xiii).
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