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==Response to claim: 45: Latter-day Saints are raised to "obey figures of Mormon authority unquestioningly"==
 
{{IndexClaimItemShort
 
|title=Under the Banner of Heaven
 
|claim=The author claims that Latter-day Saints are raised to "obey figures of Mormon authority unquestioningly, and to believe that LDS doctrine is the law of God."
 
}}[[Blood_of_the_Prophets:_Brigham_Young_and_the_Massacre_at_Mountain_Meadows/Omissions/Total_submission_to_Brigham_Young|Obey Brigham unquestioningly?]]
 
* Compare with similar treatment in {{CriticalWork:Bagley:Blood of the Prophets|pages=9}}
 
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==Response to claim: 45 - A fourteen-year-old Latter-day Saint girl was forced to wear robes by her kidnapper that "resembled the sacred robes she had donned with her family when they entered the Mormon temple"==
 
{{IndexClaimItemShort
 
|title=Under the Banner of Heaven
 
|claim=The author claims that a fourteen-year-old Latter-day Saint girl was forced to wear robes by her kidnapper that "resembled the sacred robes she had donned with her family when they entered the Mormon temple."
 
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{{disinformation| A fourteen-year-old LDS girl's experience with the temple would have only involved performing baptisms for the dead, and would not have required the wearing of any "sacred robes."}}
 
 
 
==Response to claim: 45 - The "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself"==
 
{{IndexClaimItemShort
 
|title=Under the Banner of Heaven
 
|claim=The author claims that the "words of Joseph Smith" are taught as having been "handed down by God Himself."
 
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''That'' depends upon which of Joseph's words are being referred to.
 
 
 
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