Posted on 01/27/2009 7:08:42 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
Yearning For Zion Ranch, Texas » Betty Jane Jessop's favorite phrase: "Good grief!"
That's what Betty utters as she reads the new epilogue in her mother's best-selling book, Escape . In those pages, Carolyn Jessop describes her daughter's return to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, calling her brainwashed.
"It just makes me want to laugh," said Betty, 19, shaking her head.
Besides Carolyn herself, the character in Escape that most intrigues readers is Betty -- the second of Carolyn's eight children with FLDS bishop Merril Jessop.
Why, they ask, did Betty return to the sect after four years in mainstream society? And: Is she OK?
Soon they may be able to read Betty's answer to those questions. Since April, the teenager has been working on a book about her experiences, aided by older sister Maggie Jessop.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
Maybe she doesn’t like freeways, fast food, filthy streets, crime infested neighborhoods - you know, the normal American life style.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I dont have any of those things...
Why didnt Betty just come to my house ????
“Since April, the teenager has been working on a book about her experiences, aided by older sister Maggie Jessop.”
Wonder if Betty and Maggie are (or will be) CO-WIVES.
Coffee is evil.
The Big Mac is pushing the envelope.
She’s 18, so she can join any freaky cult she wants for all we care.
Now if/when she drops a kid and offers her up to the head honcho at age 14, I say beat the mom’s ass and lock her up.
TX CPS wrote that book.
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Joseph Smith wrote D&C 132 that said it was OK to have sex with lots of virgins, etc...
These mormons are justifying their criminal actions with Smith’s permissive tome..
Can anyone recommend an objective book? I would like to read on by somebody without an ax to grind.
In fact the whole mess started because of a lie told by a whacked out liar.
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Name of Joseph Smith...
HITH - I find cults that allow middle age men to molest underage teenage girls, to be repulsive. The people who enable this are just as repulsive.
SD - Not one person has been convicted of any such thing
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Tell that to the mormon guys who went to prison in the 1800s...
Saundra,
The BOM has many similar passages to the KJV version of the bible. That’s ok. Perhaps God wanted them to be the same, and for some reason wanted the BOM to be in the same multi-hundred years language as the KJV.
What I don’t understand is this:
The KJV has translation errors. That is, we now know, with better source materials, that the guys who translated ancient works into the KJV made many, many mistakes.
How did some of those mistakes end up in the KJV?
The only possible explanation to me is that Joseph Smith just made up the BOM, and copied part of the KJV when doing so. Surely, the metal plates that JS translated would not repeat mistakes that the KJV translators made.
Please explain.
“They use the same scriptures.”
That is not true - for one thing.
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Yeppers...
The fLDS use the same as the LDS..
The book of mormon and the same mormon doctrines etc...
Read No Man Knows My History, by Fawn Brodie. It is an old biography of Joseph Smith still in print. The title is based upon a quote from Smith. It is objective in that she takes first hand accounts of people who knew him and quotes them, but the interviews and diaries she cites show him to be a charlatan. Also read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.
Pretty straight-forward, really. If there is any criticism of the LDS, then by definition the author had an axe to grind.
There, fixed it.
They are much smaller than they used to be. They need to call them "Medium-Macs"
BTW, Have you noticed that tuna cans contain less and less tuna every year? Pretty soon when you empty all the water out, all you will have left is... can.
I don’t know if it’s silly or not. I can think of another cult in which women allow themselves to be treated in a terrible manner, and they defend it. I don’t know what the truth actually is, but to say that simply because someone went back means bad stuff doesn’t happen there really is ignoring reality.
Then why do you defend them? I am honestly scratching my head.
I disagree with your viewpoint. A writer can presented plenty of criticism without having an ax to grind. The point is of presenting objectively the material, both the positive and the negative without slanting.
Because in eternity, all good Mormons will be polygamists. It's the only way they can become Gods.
I was being sarcastic... the position of the LDS will be that if they are criticized, the author had an axe to grind.
Coffee is evil.
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Not according to the book of mormon...
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