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Originally Posted by landpoke
I have been known to mistake you all for the Amish so I guess it wouldn't be the first time.
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Hardy Har Har jokester! Make no mistake about it when Elder Bronco sticks his pecker into the Cowboy State's collective Flaming Gorge this upcoming fall and you are once again reminded why Bronco is hung like a horse as well as the reason to buy your KY Jelly at the Provo Walmart before gametime, you will know that you have been smitten at last!
My honest thought on Krakauer was that I felt he didn't link the events he reference together well to make a point. I tend to think he was purposely vague because he knew the book wasn't well done.
From the perspective of just telling a story of a crazy person who killed someone, it was probably fine. But that is not real compelling in our day and age when you can read any newssource and daily get such a story in 298 pages less reading. Hence, to make it more compelling he had to draw an explanation that part of the reason these folks were crazy was their religion. That is hard to accomplish because at that point the author must really have compelling scholarship about the religious sect as well as the individual. I found the argument of the LDS influence in the craziness to be biased and not reflective of reality. Further as has been pointed out he willingly chose to ignore what might have been other perhaps more compelling causes of their craziness than the Mountain Meadows Massacre or polygamy.