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Church members decry TV portrait of Mormon life: ‘It’s designed to make us look alien’ #UndertheBannerofHeaven
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“Under the Banner of Heaven” follows a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as he tries to understand what led two brothers in 1984 Utah to commit a brutal double murder they claimed was inspired by divine revelation latimes.com/entertainment-…
“Under the Banner of Heaven,” Hulu’s new true crime mystery, uses a gruesome 1984 murder to explore the dark side of religious belief and the sometimes bloody history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints latimes.com/entertainment-…
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In #UnderTheBannerOfHeaven, Dustin Lance Black delivers an unflinching portrait of the faith he grew up in: “I was sometimes angry that so much about my own faith had been withheld from me.” lat.ms/3737krk Image
“I was also heartened that I wasn’t insane, that my doubts were legitimate,” says Black, who grew alienated from the church over how it handled his mother’s physically abusive marriage. “I didn’t understand why it should be life and death to believe.” lat.ms/3737krk
“The [Latter-day Saints] church I grew up in encourages members not to dig into the past, to doubt one’s doubts, to put your questions on a shelf,” said Black, who adapts Jon Krakauer’s propulsive nonfiction bestseller. lat.ms/3737krk
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