RUMOR: "Richard Abanes has admitted that much of the material in his
book [One Nation Under Gods] is not true. He copied it from
antimormon sources, got it published, then tried to push the book on
ZLMB, and was corrected. Didn't go so far as to publish a retraction
tho. Book sales too lucrative, I suppose" (Woody Brison, 2006,
alt.religion.mormon.fellow****p). "Abanes' book is unreliable, and he
admitted this himself on ZLMB a couple years ago. (But he didn't
retract the book or decline the royalties.) The source would be the
same old man tho. . . ." (Woody Brison, Dec. 2007,
alt.religion.mormon.fellow****p).
TRUTH: This is absolutely, uncategorically, blatantly . . . false. I
have never stated anything remotely similar to what this person is
alleging. And I have no idea where he got his ludicrous notions of
what I have supposedly admitted. With regard to ZLMB, a Mormon message
board, the only thing I mentioned at that website was that some
changes I had requested to be made to the original manuscript before
it went to print as a hardbound release were never made by my then-
editor (who ended up getting fired, interestingly). These changes,
therefore, had to be made subsequently in the paperback version, which
was released about a year after the hardbound version. Some of the
alterations included re-phrasing of certain concepts, clearer
explanations of events, and in one place an error where a quote I had
used was flipped backwards within text. All of these changes, which
amounted to an extremely small percentage of material, were made to
the paperback version=97a common occurance in book publi****ng of non-
fiction. None of them affected in any way the overall thrust of the
book, it's message, the general history of Mormonism, or the thesis I
presented.
http://abanes.com/rumorcontrol.html
http://www.truthandgrace.com/momonmindset.htm
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