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aygee 's review for:
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
After at least three years of research, Krakauer completed this book, which was initially meant to be an attempt to correlate faith and logic, but became an examination of fundamentalist Mormons. I originally decided to read this book because I have a slight fascination with people who live and think on the extremes of societal norms, and am attracted to Krakaur's writing because of this. I found, instead, a fascinating history of a religion of which I know little (other than people coming to my door during the early hours of Saturday mornings, combined with a bit of American history) and an how this "bloody history" relates to the murder of a young woman and her baby.
There were three parts of this book I found particularly remarkable:
1) The racism apparently inherent in the Mormon religion
2) The "Meadow Massacre"
3) The apt comparison of religious zealotry with George W. Bush's view of good-versus-evil and John Ashcroft's Pentecostal beliefs...which brings the reader to question the "real" seperation between church and state
There were three parts of this book I found particularly remarkable:
1) The racism apparently inherent in the Mormon religion
2) The "Meadow Massacre"
3) The apt comparison of religious zealotry with George W. Bush's view of good-versus-evil and John Ashcroft's Pentecostal beliefs...which brings the reader to question the "real" seperation between church and state