Comments on: “Big Love,” Mormons, Politics, and Religion

By: anna

anna — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:37:19 +0000

As a wise man reminded me yesterday: ”If you are a Mormon, and you want to be excommunicated from the church quickly, practice polygamy. All other sins take longer

By: coltakashi

coltakashi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:07:37 +0000

Another movie readers might want to consider is “Saints and Soldiers”. It is one of the more popular films available for free download on Hulu, apparently with the 2nd highest total viewership of all movies at the site. “Saints and Soliders” was shown in theaters about 4 years ago and tells the story of a handful of US soldiers who are captured by German forces massing for the Battle of the Bulge, and then escape, trying to sneak back to Allied lines with the information they have about the coming counteroffensive. One of the soldiers, a sniper, speaks German fluently, having served as a missionary in Germany before the war. During their escape, they encounter a German soldier who was one of the people the American sniper had converted.

The movie asks the question of how people live their religious faith in the midst of the violence and enmity of war. It is an award-winning independent film with high production values and good acting.

The concept for the movie, and some of the specific incidents, are based on the filmed statements gathered in a World War II oral history project. The one incident in the film that some reviewers have called “incredible” is actually based directly on one of these accounts, an experience that could be described as miraculous.

By: Jerald

Jerald — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:46:05 +0000

It’s best to just ignore this Hollywood garbage, but it does make it difficult afterwards when you have to interact with other religious people who want you to “explain” your beliefs as depicted by Hollywood, etc., or when trying to be involved in politics because people write you off as “too loony” to be listened to.

This is just another atempt to try to cash in on the “see how weird the Mormons are” strategy. By the way, am I the only Mormon who noticed that during the primaries there were not a few anti-Romney “Evangelicals” that were using “Big Love” and the incident with the Texas polygamy group as fuel for their anti-Romney fire? (There were also several Liberals getting in on this action)

As a side note, I didn’t watch the “Da Vinci Code” either because I felt it was being insulting to the Catholic Church in particular and all of Christianity in general. Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t watch it…