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- ==Money digging was a popular, common and accepted practice in their frontier culture== ...Smiths do not seem to have been involved to the extent claimed by some of the exaggerated attacks upon them by former neighbors.44 KB (7,251 words) - 23:06, 19 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Early Mormonism and the Magic World View |H=Response to "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View"12 KB (1,938 words) - 22:22, 11 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3 |<=[[../Chapter 2|Claims made in "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"]]27 KB (4,316 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 5 |>=[[../Chapter 6|Claims made in "Chapter 6: No rest for the Righteous"]]16 KB (2,387 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...ics who attempt a naturalistic explanation of Joseph Smith's production of the Book of Mormon often resort to claiming that Joseph gleaned a certain idea ...seph having contact with such books, but this page attempts to lay out all the books which critics have suggested were in young Joseph's "reference librar8 KB (1,135 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...monism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Use of sources/Redefining the "witnesses" |H=Use of sources: Redefining the witnesses of the gold plates3 KB (496 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins/Chapter 6 |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 6: Witnesses to the Golden Plates"33 KB (5,205 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Context and development of the vision story ...f the Wikipedia article "First Vision" section "Context and development of the vision story"22 KB (3,480 words) - 01:04, 31 May 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years |section=Early years28 KB (3,963 words) - 01:08, 31 May 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830 |previous=[[../Early years|Early years]]75 KB (11,096 words) - 01:08, 31 May 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity ...analysis of claims made in the Wikipedia article "Golden plates" - Origin and historicity16 KB (2,463 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses |H=An analysis of the Wikipedia article "Three Witnesses"46 KB (7,065 words) - 01:05, 31 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 1 |T=[[../../|Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism]]45 KB (6,710 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- |S=The alleged "facts" about Mormonism given by Macgregor Ministries contain so much hyperbole that they will grea ...elieve your Church is wrong, your Christian creeds are abomination to God, and your pastor or Priest is a hireling of Satan"46 KB (7,594 words) - 01:04, 31 May 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses |H=Response to MormonThink page "The Witnesses"38 KB (6,208 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Temple |H=Response to MormonThink page "The Temple"14 KB (2,162 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...nd culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues |H=An analysis of "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)—Historical and doctrinal issues61 KB (9,677 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024
- |L=Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Witnesses Concerns & Questions ...f this one simple fact: Joseph did not use the gold plates for translating the Book of Mormon."63 KB (10,061 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith give Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods "as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty" ...he passage describes Heber's dream in which Joseph gave him a rod, saying "the hand of God shall be with you"===3 KB (433 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots?== ...and some Jewish groups performed proxy ordinance work for the salvation of the dead===34 KB (5,659 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Why would Joseph Smith use the same stone for translating the Book of Mormon that he used for "money digging"?== ===Would God approve the use of a "magic peep stone" in translating a sacred record?===5 KB (751 words) - 15:40, 13 April 2024
- ...s the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural?= ==The use of the terms "magic" and "occult" are prejudicial, loaded terminology==104 KB (16,814 words) - 01:04, 31 May 2024