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A review by opalchainsaw
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
dark
informative
medium-paced
5.0
The Book of Mormon is riddled with egregious anachronisms and irreconcilable inconsistencies. For instance, it makes many references to horses and wheeled carts, neither of which existed in the Western Hemisphere during the pre-Columbian era. It inserts such inventions as steel and the seven-day week into ancient history long before such things were in fact invented.
Brigham Young was an unapologetic racist whose interpretations of scripture institutionalized racism within the LDS church. Under his leadership, Utah became a slave territory, and the Mormon church supported the aims of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
MIC DROP
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse