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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-…
When “Under the Banner of Heaven” was published in 2003, the Mormon Church issued a full-throated denunciation of the book, calling it “not only a slap in the face of modern Latter-day Saints, but also a misunderstanding of religion in general” latimes.com/entertainment-…

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