{"id":1590,"date":"2007-05-03T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2007-05-03T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:19:22","slug":"reviewing-the-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing &#8220;The Mormons&#8221;: The Good, The Bad, and My Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netscape ate my entry.\u00c2? Bad Netscape!<\/p>\n<p>I watched the last 90 minutes of Part I last night and all of Part II today.\u00c2? Part I was the history of the church and Part II was basically the Mormons today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><br \/>\n-very good narration and commentary on the history of the church including the mindset of Joseph Smith.<br \/>\n-those interviewed were well-spoken<br \/>\n-discussion of how those practicing polygamy actually lived<br \/>\n-they explained the background and events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre<br \/>\n-the discussion of polygamy today<br \/>\n-Part II gave a realistic picture of the Mormon life<br \/>\n-the interview with one of the young women from the family part where she talks about her illness (primary pulmonary arrhythmia or something &#8212; it was a heart condition where the prognosis is 2-5 years)<br \/>\n-the showing of the missionary training as well as missionary life<br \/>\n-interviews with students, LDS leadership, and those who were excommunicated for dissenting<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad<\/strong><br \/>\n-the lack of knowledge of Church History (or even just plain American History) outside of anything pertaining to the LDS &#8212; they were talking about how they were the most persecuted people in America and I was left wondering if these &#8220;historians&#8221; knew anything about slavery, Jim Crow laws, internment camps for the Japanese, and other atrocities that have been committed in this country.\u00c2? I also wonder if they realize that Christianity was an outlawed religion until 313 AD &#8212; people suffered MUCH worse fates than the first Mormons did and there are countries around the world that persecute Christians today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Rating<\/strong><br \/>\n4.5 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netscape ate my entry.\u00c2? Bad Netscape! I watched the last 90 minutes of Part I last night and all of Part II today.\u00c2? Part I was the history of the church and Part II was basically the Mormons today. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-pE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}