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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under the Banner of Heaven - there is a book that I haven't read but also a miniseries that I did see that is very good. I haven't seen the doc referenced in the OP but I had a similar reaction to the Under the Banner of Heaven miniseries. [/quote]

Under the Banner of Heaven is about the fundamentalist offshoot FLDS cult most famously known due to the infamy of their current “prophet” Warren Jeffs. As much as the LDS church (colloquially the Mormon church) is highly problematic it’s important to make the distinction. The book is far superior to the mini series, telling the horrifying truth of the girls and women, while the tv show invents a male LDS detective to drive the narrative, too much of which is focused on him and his LDS faith struggle.

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+1. FLDS is a very different thing.[/quote]

It is and it isn't.  There is a lot to be gained by framing Mormonism as a sort of mainstream,  Protestant Christian religion but they've also been really slow to disavow a lot of their origins and beliefs. For all intents and purposes the FLDS are living more in line with God and scripture than anyone else and that's a very uncomfortable truth. [/quote]

PP you quoted and I think we are actually in agreement in the sense that if someone says they survived Mormonism, it is very reasonable that they are talking about the mainstream Mormon church, and that their practices are very destructive. That is to say- you don't have to come from a Warren Jeffs situation in order to have a terrible experience. I'm not saying LDS is great and FLDS is not. I'm saying, don't think it's only FLDS that's problematic. We're encouraging the distinction in order to highlight the problems with LDS itself.[/quote]

The miniseries actually gets into how the Mormon Church disavows FLDS, but the choices made by the Mormon Church to be mainstream were strategic rather than about genuine changes in beliefs. And how the mainstream Mormon Church exerts control over families to protect the institution.[/quote]

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