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Steve Willoughby, "Looking Through the Gates of Hell: Examining a Curious Linguistic Claim," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, June 2003) Ed Decker claims that the word "Mormon," in Chinese, means "gates of hell." What is the truth?

Other Resources

The resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site.

Russell Anderson, Ed Decker.

Wade Englund, About Ed Decker's Excommunication.

Wade Englund, The Tanner's are Critical of Ed Decker.

Michael T. Griffith, Another Look at the God Makers.

Daniel C. Peterson, Book review of Ed Decker, Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism, reviewed in FARMS Review of Books (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1995)

Robert Starling, A Mormon Challenges the "God Makers" Movie.

Recommended Reading

If you are interested in more information about the topic of 'Critics,' you may want to refer to the books listed below. These books are available in the FAIR Bookstore; click on a link to find more information.

FARMS Review of Books: Vol. 5, Edited by Daniel C. Peterson (FARMS, 1993, 395 pages).

FARMS Review of Books: Vol. 7, Num. 2, Edited by Daniel C. Peterson (FARMS, 1995, 270 pages).

Daniel C. Peterson, P. T. Barnum Redivivus: A Review of Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism (FARMS, 1995, 71 pages). Review of Ed Decker's _Complete Handbook on Mormonism._

Robert Brown and Rosemary Brown, They Lie in Wait To Deceive (Vol. 1-4) (Brownsworth Publishing, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1995). Four highly recommended volumes dealing with anti-Mormon literature and critics, including that of Dee-Jay Nelson, Walter R. Martin, the Tanners, Ed Decker, and Dick Baer.

Robert Brown and Rosemary Brown, They Lie in Wait To Deceive, Vol. 4 (Brownsworth Publishing, 1995, 358 pages). The deceit of John Edward or Ed Decker, Richard or Dick Baer, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Walter Martin, John L. Smith, and the film, "The Godmakers."

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