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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Epilogue
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Contents
- 1 Response to claims made in "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"
- 1.3 Claim
- The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
- Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....
Response to claims made in "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"
| Chapter 19 | A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Will Bagley
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Claim
- Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."
Author's source(s) - Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132. [ATTENTION!]
- Misrepresentation of source: Use of sources: Alexander on reasons
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Claim
- The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
379
Claim
- Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Prejudicial or loaded language