Category: Censorship and Suppression
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The Real Joseph Smith
Getting a clear impression of Joseph Smith’s character has been difficult, due to guarded church records and LDS historians who have often been pressured.
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Falsification of Joseph Smith’s History
Suppressed records reveal that drastic changes were made in Joseph Smith’s History after his death. New research shows that less than 40% of the material attributed to Joseph Smith was actually compiled before his death. By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Joseph Fielding Smith, the tenth President of the Mormon Church, stated: “The most important history…
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Latest “Finds”
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Some people have told us that we should be patient with the Church Historian’s Office and they will eventually make all of the Church records available. Judging from past experience, however, we feel that they will not make these documents available until a great deal of pressure has been applied…
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Changing the Revelations
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following article is an excerpt from our book, The Case Against Mormonism Vol. 1 (Chapter 6, pp. 131-191) A Detailed Study of Changes in Joseph Smith’s Revelations The Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe stated: The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of the revelations received by Joseph Smith to…
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Important Letter (LaMar Petersen)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner, and LaMar Petersen On November 9, 1966, LaMar Petersen wrote a letter to the Manuscript Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. About half of this letter was printed in volume 1, number 4, page 9. We feel that this letter is rather important, and therefore we are publishing…
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Suppression of the News
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The leaders of the Mormon Church have always found it very hard to accept criticism. In 1844 a newspaper was established in Nauvoo, Illinois, entitled the Nauvoo Expositor. This paper was opposed to Joseph Smith practicing polygamy and running for the office of President of the United States. After the…
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Changes in the Key to Theology
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Dr. Hugh Nibley, of the Brigham Young University, claims that Joseph Smith’s teachings “are so well-knit and perfectly logical that they have never had to undergo the slightest change or alteration during a century in which every other church in Christendom has continually revamped its doctrines” (No, Ma’am, That’s Not…
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The Book Brigham Young Tried to Destroy
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the October, 1845 Conference of the Mormon Church, Lucy Smith announced that she had finished writing her book concerning the history of her son Joseph Smith. In 1853 Orson Pratt (the Mormon Apostle) published this book in England. In 1854 the Mormon newspaper, the Deseret News, recommended Lucy Smith’s…
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Out of Print?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the first issue of the Messenger we proved that the Mormon Church leaders are trying to suppress Wilford Wood’s photo-offset reprint of the first edition of the Book of Commandments, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon. We reproduced a letter from the Deseret Book Store in which the…
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Continued Suppression
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the first number of the Salt Lake City Messenger we furnished proof that the Mormon Church leaders are trying to suppress the photo-offset reprint of the Book of Commandments and the first edition of the Book of Mormon (these books are sold under the title Joseph Smith Begins His…