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179
- Author's quote: [I]n keeping with the acceleration of cult propoganda everywhere, the Mormons have around 50,000 "missionaries" active today
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180
- The book claims that Latter-day Saints are cautioned against the use of "caffeine-bearing drinks, such as Coca-Cola."
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181
- Tithing is claimed to be one-tenth of gross income.
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181, n3
- Utah "shows that rates of divorce, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and suicide are above the national average and climbing."
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182
- Author's quote: Mormons…flourish a pseudo-mastery of Scripture before the uninformed Christian's dazzled eyes and confuse him, sometimes beyond description.
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182
- The book refers to the "young and boastful Joseph Smith…"
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182
It is claimed that Joseph Smith's statement that "no man knows my history" resulted in "endless suspicion by Mormon historians and non-Mormons" who began researching it.
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- This claim is absurd. The history of the Church has been of intense interest to historians since the Church was formed.
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182
- Joseph Smith practices "treasure digging."
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182
- Joseph Smith committed "adultery before the polygamy prophecy."
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182
- Joseph Smith proclaimed that the Book of Mormon "is the most correct of any book on earth."
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182
- Joseph Smith said "I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam…"
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- History of the Church, 6:408-409
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183
- According to D. Michael Quinn, Joseph Smith Sr. was a "mystic" and a treasure digger.
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183
- Joseph Smith Jr. was "interested in treasure seeking even after he became president of the LDS Church.
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183
- D. Michael Quinn was excommunicated "after refusing to keep silent about his unflattering research."
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184
- Brigham Young wanted to suppress Lucy Mack Smith's history because it had "many mistakes."
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- Millennial Star, 17:297-298, personal letter dated January 31, 1885.
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184
- Author's quote: It is interesting to observe that Smith could not have been too much moved by the heavenly vision, for he shortly took up once again the habit of digging for treasure along with his father and brother, who were determined to unearth treasure by means of 'peep stones,' 'divining rods,' or just plain digging.
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184
- Joseph is claimed to have gone "on record as denying that he had ever been a money-digger."
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- Joseph Smith, History, 1:55
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184
- Joseph "took part in and personally supervised numerous treasure-digging expeditions" and "claimed supernatural powers."
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- Gleanings by the Way, by J.A. Clark, 225.
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184
- A hearing 1826 ruled that Joseph was "guilty of money-digging."
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186
- The angel Moroni was originally identified as Nephi.
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- 1851 edition of the Pearl of Great Price.
- Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, 5th edition, (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987), 136.
- Times and Seasons, vol. 3, 753
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186
- Author's quote: This unfortunate crossing up of the divine communication system was later remedied by thoughful Mormon scribes who have exercised great care to ferret out all the historical and factual blunders not readily explainable in the writings of Smith...
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187, n10
- "Reformed Egyptian" has never been seen by any "leading Egyptologist.
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