An article in The Salt Lake Daily Tribune accuses Latter-day Saints of having a "degraded conception" of God in light of the Adam-God doctrine.
“Minister Martin’s Thesis: Effect of Mormonism upon the Moral Sense,” The Salt Lake Daily Tribune 46, no. 101 (August 26, 1896): 5
The second class of Mormons, or Adam-God Saints have
THE DEGRADED CONCEPTION
of God which insures degraded worship. Their reverence is lowered and their regard for the divine law is weakened. That is noticeable at Mormon funerals where the mourning friends are comforted with the promise that the departed one will be judged by his equals, who know how it is themselves and can excuse the many transgressions.