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- Brigham Young/Reviews
- Brigham Young/Teachings
- Brigham Young/Teachings/Moon and sun are inhabited
- Brigham Young/Teachings/Moon and sun are inhabited/CriticalSources
- Brigham Young/Women not to meddle
- Brigham Young/Women not to meddle/CriticalSources
- Brigham Young (1855): "I do not even believe that there is a single revelation, among the many God has given to the Church, that is perfect in its fulness"
- Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun"
- Brigham Young (1855): "he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character. But let his enemies give his character, and they will make him out one of the basest men that ever lived."
- Brigham Young (1859): "have I yet lived to the state of perfection that I can commune in person with the Father and the Son at my will and pleasure? No, though I hold myself in readiness that he can wield me at his will and pleasure"
- Brigham Young (1861): "The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions"
- Brigham Young (1867): "the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age"
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men"
- Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject"
- Brigham Young University
- Brigham Young and Adam-God theory
- Brigham Young and Adam-God theory/Ancient of Days
- Brigham Young and Adam-God theory/Ancient of Days/CriticalSources
- Brigham Young and Adam-God theory/CriticalSources
- Brigham Young and Freemasonry
- Brigham Young and Freemasonry/Was Brigham a "33rd Degree" Mason
- Brigham Young and Freemasonry/Was Brigham a Mason
- Brigham Young and Lucy Mack Smith's history
- Brigham Young and moonmen
- Brigham Young and plural marriage
- Brigham Young and polygamy
- Brigham Young and polygamy/Boasted could have more wives
- Brigham Young and polygamy/Hiding history
- Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Brigham Young and the Word of Wisdom
- Brigham Young and the Word of Wisdom/Encouraging others to violate
- Brigham Young and the Word of Wisdom/Violations
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre/Church blocked prosecution
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre/Church interference in trials
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre/Deal with Brigham Young
- Brigham Young and the prosecution of Mountain Meadows Massacre/Deal with Brigham Young/CriticalSources
- Brigham Young and tobacco/Growing tobacco in Utah
- Brigham Young as President of the United States
- Brigham Young as Young Earth Creationist
- Brigham Young in JD 11, page 269
- Brigham Young never mentioned First Vision
- Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision
- Brigham Young on creation
- Brigham Young on race mixing
- Brigham Young on science and education
- Brigham Young ordered MMM
- Brigham Young ordered MMM/Brigham's letter mysteriously lost
- Brigham Young pulling the wool over America's eyes
- Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
- Bruce R. McConkie: "Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation"
- Built without hands
- Burned-over district
- Burning in the bosom
- By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
- By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
- CES Letter detailed response, Introduction
- COgden
- California Fair Political Practices Commission fine
- California Proposition 8 Post-Election Events
- Cambridge University Press
- Cameron J. Packer (2004): "Joseph Smith and others returned the plates to a cave in the Hill Cumorah after he finished translating them"
- Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
- Can women be "Sons of Perdition"
- Cartoon banned by the Mormon church
- Castration in Utah
- Category inclusion test
- Celestial marriage
- Celestial sex
- Censorship and revision of Church history
- Censorship and revision of Church history/CriticalSources
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Further Reading
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Has the Church whitewashed its history
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Has the Church whitewashed its history/CriticalSources
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Has the Church whitewashed its history/Further Reading
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Hiding the facts
- Censorship and revision of Church history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Ronald E. Poelman in 1984
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church/CriticalSources
- Censorship and revision of Church history/Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
- Censorship and revision of LDS history
- Censorship and revision of LDS history/Hiding the facts
- Censorship and revision of LDS history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Censorship and revision of LDS history/Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church
- Censorship and revision of LDS history/Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
- Centrality in LDS thought
- Centrality in LDS thought/CriticalSources
- Changes to the temple endowment
- Changes to the temple endowment/CriticalSources
- Changing doctrine
- Charles Anthon
- Charles Larson
- Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"?
- Charles W. Penrose (1911): Jesus "was speaking of the class of people to whom the Sadducees referred. Under the law of Moses marriage for eternity was not celebrated...the marriages under consideration were for time only"
- Charles W. Penrose (1912): "Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible?"
- Charles W. Penrose in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
- Chiasmus
- Chiasmus/Alma 36
- Chiasmus/Alma 41:12-15
- Chiasmus/Helaman 6:7-13
- Chiasmus/Helaman 9:6-11
- Chiasmus/Mosiah 3:18-19
- Chiasmus/Mosiah 5:10-12
- Chiasmus:Alma 36
- Chiasmus:Alma 41 12-15
- Chiasmus:Helaman 6:7-13
- Chiasmus:Helaman 9:6-11
- Chiasmus:Mosiah 3 18-19
- Chiasmus:Mosiah 5 10-12
- Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
- Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon/CriticalSources
- Child-bearing
- Child abuse in the scriptures
- Childbearing
- Children are capable of sin
- Children of Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Christ
- Christ date birth
- Christensen: "Notice again the shift from an original argument against the priesthood restoration based on 'no such claim until 1834' to a much softer complaint about the general membership being 'unfamiliar with the now official story.'"
- Christensen: "Runnells shifts the argument regarding the First Vision from 'absolutely no record of' to...'the first vision was unknown to the Saints and the world before 1832'"
- Christensen (2014): "His Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness, have no common manner of language, never err in their statements"
- Christensen (2014): "His Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness, have no common manner of language, never err in their statements, never need to seek wisdom..."
- Christensen (2014): "His Letter and his response to FairMormon works from an assumption that LDS leadership should display no weakness, have no common manner of language, never err in their statements, never need to seek wisdom since they should already h
- Christian mysticism
- Christian revival
- Christian texts on-line
- Christianity is a mystery
- Christianity is a mystery/CriticalSources
- Christians don't need a mediating priesthood
- Christopher Marc Nemelka
- Church's stance on the theory of organic evolution
- Church Hides Accounts Part 1
- Church Hides Accounts Part 2
- Church Hides Accounts Part 3
- Church Hides Accounts Part 4
- Church Hides Accounts Part 5
- Church Hides Accounts Part 6
- Church Hides Accounts Part 7
- Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:2013:Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts
- Church History in the Fulness of Times (2003): "The law of celestial marriage, as outlined in this revelation, also included the principle of the plurality of wives"
- Church art and historical accuracy
- Church discipline
- Church discipline/Scholars
- Church discipline/Scholars/CriticalSources
- Church discipline/Scholars/D. Michael Quinn
- Church doctrine
- Church doctrine/Changing
- Church doctrine/Changing/CriticalSources
- Church doctrine/Establishing new doctrine
- Church doctrine/Official
- Church doctrine/Official or "core" doctrine
- Church doctrine/Official or core doctrine
- Church doctrine/Official or core doctrine/Church statement
- Church doctrine/Prophets are not infallible
- Church doctrine/Publications
- Church doctrine/Publications/Statements by Church leaders
- Church doctrine/Repudiated
- Church doctrine/Repudiated/Adam-God
- Church doctrine/Repudiated/Adam-God/CriticalSources
- Church doctrine/Repudiated/Blood atonement
- Church doctrine/Repudiated concepts
- Church doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Adam-God
- Church doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Adam-God/CriticalSources
- Church doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Blood atonement
- Church doctrine/Standard doctrine
- Church doctrine/Statements by Church leaders
- Church doctrine/Statements by past prophets
- Church doctrine/What is official doctrine
- Church doctrine/What is official doctrine/Church statement
- Church finances
- Church financial reporting to the SEC
- Church history
- Church history/Accuracy of Church art
- Church history/Boyd K. Packer's talk: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect"
- Church history/Censorship and revision
- Church history/Censorship and revision/CriticalSources
- Church history/Censorship and revision/Hiding the facts
- Church history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Church history/Censorship and revision/Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church
- Church history/Censorship and revision/Sidney Rigdon trial in Times and Seasons versus History of the Church/CriticalSources
- Church history/Censorship and revision/Wilford Woodruff criticizes publication of polygamists
- Church integrity
- Church integrity/"Lying for the Lord"
- Church integrity/Accusations of hypocrisy in Church Practices
- Church integrity/Accusations of hypocrisy in Church practices
- Church investments and reporting of financial data
- Church involvement in politics
- Church involvement in politics/Equal Rights Amendment and the Church
- Church involvement in politics/Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8
- Church involvement in politics/Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8/Effects on family
- Church involvement in politics/Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8/Imposing morality
- Church involvement in politics/Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8/LGBT Rights
- Church involvement in politics/Latter-day Saints and California Proposition 8/Religious freedom
- Church leadership
- Church leadership/Authoritarianism
- Church leadership/Authoritarianism/Quotes
- Church leadership/Authoritariansim/Quotes
- Church leadership/The thinking has been done
- Church leadership/The thinking has been done/CriticalSources
- Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Changes in the name of the Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Location of the organization
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Location of the organization/CriticalSources
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Name of the Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Succession in the Presidency of the Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Succession in the Presidency of the Church/CriticalSources
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
- Church of the devil
- Church organization/Finances
- Church organization/Finances/No paid ministry
- Church organization/Finances/No paid ministry/General Authorities living stipend
- Church organization/Finances/No paid ministry/No professional clergy
- Church organization/Finances/No paid ministry/No professional ministers
- Church organization/Finances/Rumor that the Church Owns Coca-Cola
- Church over family
- Church reaction to Hofmann forgeries
- Church reaction to the Hofmann forgeries
- Church reaction to the Hofmann forgeries/Further Reading
- Church sources discussing issues with Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Blacks
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon and DNA
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon authorship theories
- Church sources discussing issues with Book of Mormon geography
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Church sources discussing issues with Changes to the Word of Wisdom
- Church sources discussing issues with First Vision Accounts
- Church sources discussing issues with Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with Joseph's 1826 South Bainbridge court appearance
- Church sources discussing issues with Joseph Smith and politics
- Church sources discussing issues with Kinderhook plates
- Church sources discussing issues with Kirtland Safety Society
- Church sources discussing issues with Martyrdom and Joseph's use of a gun
- Church sources discussing issues with Oliver Cowdery's divining rod
- Church sources discussing issues with Origin of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith papyri
- Church sources discussing issues with Violence and conflict
- Church sources discussing issues with anachronisms in the Book of Mormon
- Church sources discussing issues with changes to the Word of Wisdom
- Church sources discussing issues with martyrdom and Joseph's use of a gun
- Church sources discussing issues with origin of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith papyri
- Church sources discussing issues with polygamy
- Church sources discussing issues with violence and conflict
- Church sources discussing issues withcChanges to the Doctrine and Covenants
- Church statements on Book of Mormon geography
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:John Whitmer:Supernatural power
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Metcalf Ten Years Before the Mast
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Stephen Burnett to Br. Johnson
- CitationAbuse:CES Letter:Stephen Burnett to Br. Johnson,
- CitationAbuse:Jeremy Runnells' Response and Rebuttal to Brian M. Hauglid's Rational Faiths Essay:B.H. Roberts comment on the Book of Abraham
- City Creek
- City Creek Center Mall in Salt Lake City
- City Creek Center in Salt Lake City
- City Creek Mall
- City of Nauvoo
- City of Nauvoo/City charter
- City of Nauvoo/City charter/CriticalSources
- City of Nauvoo/City charter/Usurpation of power
- City of Nauvoo/City charter/Usurpation of power/CriticalSources
- City of Nauvoo/City charter/habeas corpus
- City of Nauvoo/Crime and violence
- City of Nauvoo/Crime and violence/CriticalSources
- City of Nauvoo/Nauvoo Expositor
- City of Nauvoo/Nauvoo Expositor/CriticalSources
- City of Nauvoo/Nauvoo Expositor/Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
- City of Nauvoo/Nauvoo Expositor/Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor/CriticalSources
- Clarissa Reed Hancock
- Climate in the Book of Mormon
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cold fusion
- Combating racial prejudice
- Common issues in interpretation and proof-texting
- Communism and the United Order
- Communism and the United Order/CriticalSources
- Community of Christ
- Comoros Islands and Moroni
- Conclusion in the CES Letter
- Conflation of 1824-25 revival?
- Constitution hang by a thread
- Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
- Contradiction between D&C 132 and Jacob 2
- Contradictions in LDS scripture table
- Controversy Concerning D&C 121:28
- Corporality of God
- Corporeality of God
- Cosmology
- Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State?
- Council of Fifty
- Countercult ministries
- Countercult ministries/Contender Ministries
- Countercult ministries/Contender Ministries/Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves
- Countercult ministries/Contender Ministries/Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Pages 2
- Countercult ministries/Contender Ministries/Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 1-28
- Countercult ministries/Contender Ministries/Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
- Countercult ministries/Institute for Religious Research
- Countercult ministries/Macgregor Ministries
- Countercult ministries/Macgregor Ministries/Facts: Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
- Countercult ministries/Macgregor Ministries/Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
- Countercult ministries/Mormonism Research Ministry
- Countercult ministries/Saints Alive in Jesus
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Animals
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Crops
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Culture
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Geography
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Metallurgy
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Races
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Script
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Style and Inconsistencies
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Witnesses
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/First Vision
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/General Questions
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by Joseph Smith's background
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by happenings of early 19th century America
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by happenings of the early 19th century America
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by the KJV of the Bible
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Main themes of Mormonism not in Book of Mormon
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Main themes of Mormonism not in the Book of Mormon
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Prophecies in the Book of Mormon
- Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Treasure Hunting and Magic
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous / General Questions
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Prophets
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)
- Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible
- Countercult ministries/Utah Lighthouse Ministry
- Countercult ministries/Utah Lighthouse Ministry/Bible and Book of Mormon Contradictions
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 1
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 10
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 2
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 3
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 4
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 5
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 6
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 7
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 8
- Countercult ministries/Watchman Fellowship/Section 9
- Counterfeit Gospel
- Covering Up the Black Hole