Wow. Sickly fascinating. Anyone else read this yet? krakauers most recent novel (i believe) about two mormons who killed their sister in law and daughter as a direct order from God. These are some pretty sick and twisted individuals, yet they are so not insane at the same time. The religion is ridiculous, hwoever, i think the only reason it seems so ridiculous is that its so recent and easy to refute. Im sure i would have felt the same about christiantity (even though i kind of do.) however, this isnt a religious debate.

Thus, the book is fucking great. Krakauer is once again a hell of a story teller. highly suggest it.

read it a few months back.....insanely fascinating.....

this religion is growing more and more every day, and gaining more and more influence in the political world, and it's entirely based on a crazy con-man's ability to sweet talk poor, ignorant farmers back in the day......basis of a lot of religions i suppose....with the faith's history so well documented, it being less than 200 years old, krakauer pieces it all together in his usual style of history/interview/journalistic writing.....

When dan lafferty is explaining the murders in detail, it was pretty difficult to read.

I saw the movie Frailty.

Hilarious. Forgot about that. yea, i suppose.

Sorry for the tangent. I just saw it recenly and the god killing but was familiar.

There's a thread about it in N&D:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21753

Polygamy. I think there's room for a thread on the book and not necessarily the general idea of polygamy.

Just finished this. It was amazing. The best part was all the history of Mormonism. I really never knew much about it. I can't believe people actually believe that bull shit. I love how they think that anyone with a skin color other than white are cursed by God. What a bunch of kooks.

Thanks for the reviews on this. Been thinking about picking it up, and now I will. I just love to read more bizare religious beliefs. Makes me feel better about not believing.

Now I dont know your religious beliefs, but arent they all that fucking ridiculous?

I mean, the reason mormonosim seems even crazier is because (and kraukauer points this out) this religion started during the "print era" so everything is well documented, the people are a little more educated perhaps and it just seems so fucking absurd. Im sure if christianity came out 150 years ago we'd think the same thing

"we" = the general population

and i do think its all ridiculous.

The hardest part about the book was when lafferty was describing the murders from jail....hard to read.