Packer has not been the only LDS Church leader critical of historians. Ezra Taft Benson, the church's 13th president, has also been outspoken concerning LDS historians. According to Benson This humanistic emphasis on history is not confined only to secular history; there have been and continue to be attempts made to bring this philosophy into our own Church history. Again the emphasis is to underplay revelation and God's intervention in significant events, and to inordinately humanize the prophets of God so that their human frailties become more evident than their spiritual qualities. Benson also warns historians against adding context and background information concerning revelations and LDS history. According to one historian citing Benson Elder Benson gives as examples the discussion by historians of the American temperance movement in the 1830s as part of the circumstances out of which Joseph Smith obtained the revelation on the Word of Wisdom, and he referred to historians who explained the revelation on the three degrees of glory in terms of contemporary questions by American philosophers about the afterlife