The introductory segment contains the following warning: Due to the nature of the subject matter, this program is recommended for mature audiences.
John L. Smith, Director of Utah Missions, Inc. states that the men at the top of the “Mormon empire” are extremely wealthy and hold a lot of the corporate power in the country.
Immediately following this statement, a text overlay states that shortly after the interview, Lillian was found dead in her home of a gunshot wound.
Regarding these allegations of satanic practices, Decker states that the "LDS Church has officially acknowledged that we were right", apparently referring to the Pace memorandum.
Decker also claims that Smith was convicted of sorcery and "crystal ball gazing or fortune telling" by courts in New York.
Decker states that Smith traveled to the hill Cumorah annually to "conjure up the spirit" of the angel Moroni from the dead.
Decker states that Smith was found to be in possession of a "magic talisman" at the time of his death that would bring him "wealth, power and success in seducing women".
These comments are interspersed with video of several people carrying protest signs near Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
Commenting on the lack of news responding to these allegations, Decker states that the church executed "an extraordinary media blackout" and that they "stopped the hottest story of the ’80s".
The film The God Makers II provoked a number of responses from both supporters and critics of Mormonism, with both groups claiming severe inaccuracies in the information presented.
[1] Says Massimo Introvigne, "the second book and film are worse than the first: they include an explicit call to hatred and intolerance that has been denounced as such by a number of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish organizations."
The center was constructed in 1984, and teaches curriculum concerning Near Eastern history, Hebrew and Arabic language, and the Gospels in the New Testament.
Lillian Chynoweth’s description of the “blood atonement” administered by the followers of Ervil LeBaron is briefly described in Jon Krakauer’s book Under the Banner of Heaven.
Although not explicitly named in the film The God Makers II, the list that Chynoweth referred to was called The Book of the New Covenants, and was written by Ervil LeBaron before his death in prison.
[5] With regard to the statement of Lillian Chynoweth’s death after the completion of the film, The God Makers II does not make it clear that she committed suicide in 1992, and instead leaves the impression with the viewer that she was murdered as the result of the “blood atonement” threat.
The Tanners take issue with the manner in which this is presented in the film, stating, "[t]his statement certainly suggests to all those who see the video, that Lillian Chynoweth was murdered in cold blood.
Fearing it to be true, the elder Smith uncovered the grave on September 25, 1824 and inspected the corpse.”[9] The story of the exhumation of Alvin’s remains gained new life with the “discovery” of Mark Hofmann’s forged Salamander Letter.