Under the Banner of Heaven
Dear friends, As you can see from the title, I had the opportunity to binge-watched a true-crime fiction tv-show last night called, “Under the Banner of Heaven”. This series tells the story of a Mormon detective, Jebediah Pyre, and his Paiute partner, Bill Taba, who are investigating a double murder case relating to a Mormon family, the Laffertys, who have transgressed from the current Mormon prophet to the fundamentalist teachings. Which takes me back to another documentary that not a while ago must have topped the charts on Netflix, “Keep Sweet Pray and Obey”, about the infamous religious community the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In particular, the series documents how Warren Jeff, the prophet of the FLDS, have been abusing his power to build an industry of child-marriages while satisfying his own selfish needs to have underage wife among his many wives. The Mormon church have evolved to adapt to government and federal laws, and...
