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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Books We've Read: Under the Banner of Heaven

What makes brothers have the same psyche that says it's not only okay to kill, but it's demanded from most high?

Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, the story of "violent faith," when in the early summer of '84, two brothers on the orders of God killed a mother and her infant daughter.

Under the Banner of Heaven examines the religion, the crimes, and the history of how everything got to this point. Travel the story which includes the infamous Nauvoo and Warren Jeffs.

Under the Banner of Heaven

~by Jon Krakauer

..."I've always been interested in God and the Kingdom of God," [Dan Lafferty] says. "It's been the center of my focus since I was a young child." And he is certain God intended for him to kill Brenda and Erica Lafferty: "It was like someone had taken me by the hand that day and led me comfortably through everything that happened. Ron had received a revelation from God that lives were to be taken. And if God wants something done, it will be done..."

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