I just got through watching most of that Frontline program on

[Ilsa]

Mormons and feel like I've had a sales call from a missonary.

The part about the family was misleading in some ways. While they talked about how mormon women work outside the home at about the same proportion as the rest of the population, they didn't mention that the mormon divorce rate is just as high or higher than the general population. Try that on when you have a bunch of kids.

They also were in a mormon home with eleven children. The house looked very expensive, not what most of us can afford. Not truly representative of what most families with 11 kids deal with.

One thing they did discuss was how mormonism, like many other religions, is wrapped up in the hereafter and so it is a coping mechanism for dealing with our mortality. Very little was discussed about the joining rituals, etc, just that they were very secret and the members were sworn to maintain the secrecy. Seems like there is some fantasy-play they do as well, such dressing up all in white like most people would imagine angels to be like, and then hanging out in the luxorious temple rooms that look like formal living rooms.

I didn't hear any Christian rock music.

[kurth]

1. Why don't they use a computer and declare all those billion dead people SAVED?

And are those rooms in the temple real?

Fascinating series, but thanks, I'm already saved.

[msongs]

2. the systematic destruction of non-white non-christian cultures nt

[Ilsa]

3. Did you see the two or three African Americans they had on?

One was intereviewed and another was in church. I guess there are at least two non-whites that belong.

And they talked about how widespread the LDS chuch/Temples are. Yeah, changing cultures all over the globe with their fairy tales of what the after-life will be like.