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    The God Makers is a book and film highlighting the inner workings and perceived negative aspects of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Ed Decker and Dave Hunt co-authored the book and film. Jeremiah Films produced the film in 1982, expressing a highly critical view … See more

    The God Makers was first shown to a group of 4,000 evangelical Christians on December 31, 1982, at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. It was thereafter screened in various churches as an attempt to … See more

    The film created considerable controversy in some of the communities in which it has been shown, and was described by Truman G. Madsen, LDS professor of religion and philosophy, as "religious pornography". The negative reaction came from both Mormons … See more

    December 31, 1982
    The God Makers was first shown to a group of 4,000 evangelical Christians at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
    1982
    Jeremiah Films produced the film The God Makers.
    1984
    The book The God Makers was published.
    1960s
    Many of the accounts written by Joseph Smith of the First Vision were unknown until the 1960s.
    1992
    The sequel film The God Makers II was released.
    1993
    The book The God Makers II was published.
    1983
    The Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith publicly presented their concerns of the film which they described as 'Mormon bashing' and 'invidious and defamatory'.
    1985
    The Godmakers Examined, The Godmakers: Shadow or Reality? A Content Analysis, Does the Camera Lie? A Structural Analysis of The Godmakers, and One Community's Reaction to The Godmakers were published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
    1984
    The short film The Temple of the Godmakers was released.
    1989
    M. Russell Ballard stated that the church continued to grow despite films such as The God Makers.

    Following the debut of the original 1982 film, a book was published as The God Makers in 1984 by Harvest House. In 1984 another short film was released as The Temple of the Godmakers, depicting more of the temple ceremony reenactment than in the 1982 film. … See more

    1. ^ Decker & Hunt 1984, p. 16
    2. ^ J. B. Haws (2013). The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception. Oxford University Press. pp. 123–24. ISBN 9780199374946. Retrieved 2015-06-30. See more

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