Wednesday, February 22, 2006


G and I have been reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer which is about those fucking nut cases the Mormons. Really, you have no idea how crazy this shit is. Basically Fundamental Mormonism is a club for men with beards who like to talk and write things like it's from the Bible like "As thou sayeth the righteousness of the kingdom of the lord, and so it came to pass" and then they claim that it came directly from god. It's like if some guys really liked the book Get Shorty and then spent 200 years imitating Elmore Leonard's prose style and claiming that he wrote it. Oh, and if Elmore Leonard never existed in the first place. And if it was all an elaborate exuse for raping 13 year old girls and having tons of wives that you treat like livestock.
You have to read the book to get the creepiness of it all. And an amazing point that he makes is that the Bible and the Quoran are no more beleivable than the Book of Mormon, they were just written so long ago that they are more difficult to contest. Mormonism is basically just like any religion in it's infantile form. That it is modern and transparant enough for everyone to see it for what it is- a giant hoax created by a charismatic con man and carried on by desperate and crazy people is the main difference between it and our established religions.

1 comment:

Caitlin said...

have you ever noticed the curiously large population of mormons in southeastern pennsylvania? because i sure have.