Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 15

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Claims made in "Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland"
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Claims made in "Chapter 15: The Valley of God"

208

Claim
  • Oliver Cowdery accused Joseph of trying to "set up a kind of petty government, controlled and dictated by ecclesiastical influence…"

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 3:18n
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211

Claim
  • Joseph proclaimed that an altar found in Missouri was where Adam offered sacrifices.

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211

Claim
  • Joseph said that Adam shall come to visit his people at Adam-ondi-Ahman.

Response

211

Claim
  • The Saints believed that Jackson County was the site of the Garden of Eden.

Response

211

Claim
  • Far West was the spot where Cain killed Abel.

Author's source(s)
  • History of the Church 3:35
  • D&C 117:8
  • John Corrill: Brief History of the Church, p. 28.
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212

Claim
  • Joseph justified slavery.

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213

Claim
  • Sidney Rigdon supported Sampson Avard's formation of a "secret" band.

Response

214

Claim
  • Joseph and Sidney "were careful not to be associated" with the Danites.

Response

214

Claim
  • The Danites were a secret society with oaths, passwords and secret signs.

Author's source(s)
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…
Response

215

Claim
  • Joseph "made a confused and damaging admission of his own relationship to the Danite organization" before his death.

Author's source(s)
  • Minutes of a Nauvoo City Council Meeting, Jan. 3, 1844, History of the Church 6:165.
Response

215

Claim
  • Joseph formally sanctioned Sampson Avard and the Danites.

Author's source(s)
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…
Response

217

Claim
  • Sidney Rigdon wanted to have Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer cut off from the church in order to banish his rivals.

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218

Claim
  • Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon threatened the dissenters in the Church.

Response
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219

Claim
  • The dissenters were ordered to leave Far West.

Response
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223

Claim
  • Sidney Rigdon's 4th of July sermon alluded to a "war of extermination" with the mob.

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