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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Chapter 2
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Contents
- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: The Battle-Ax of the Lord"
- 2 Claim
- Mormons saw Indians as instrument of vengeance for Joseph's murder.
- Author's quote: [Joseph Smith] plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls....
- Innuendo about death of federal officials
- Author's quote: [missionaries] were called to prepare the Indians for their role in the
- Indians regarded by Mormons "as a weapon God had placed in their hands."
Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: The Battle-Ax of the Lord"
27
Claim
- Mormons saw Indians as instrument of vengeance for Joseph's murder.
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
27
Claim
- Author's quote: [Joseph Smith] plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls....
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
- Prejudicial or loaded language
- Presentism or anachronism: "Marriages to very young girls"?
- "Sealings to married women"
- Divine manifestations to plural wives and their families
33
Claim
- Innuendo about death of federal officials
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
- "Another troubling tendency of Bagley’s is his habit of almost—but not quite—accusing Mormondom of criminal acts for which there can be no answer because no real facts are given. Federal officials “died mysteriously” (39), and Wakara died “probably of pneumonia but perhaps from poison,” all following conflicts with Mormons (33)." [1]
36
Claim
- Author's quote: [missionaries] were called to prepare the Indians for their role in the
impending apocalypse....
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response
37
Claim
- Indians regarded by Mormons "as a weapon God had placed in their hands."
Author's source(s) - [ATTENTION!]
Notes
- ↑ W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall, "review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley," Mormon Historical Studies (Spring 2003): 154.