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The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth (view source)
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|comment=The book is an interesting commentary on Mormon families and lifestyles. It takes place in Chorley, Lancashire where a large Mormon community exists. There is also a large Preston Temple Complex there, where only worthy Mormons are allowed to enter the Temple and perform in special ordinances.
The book does indeed highlight the pressure and a supression found in many Mormon families but the main reason for the stressful and dysfunctional lifestyles of many Mormon individuals and families in Chorley and in all the Mormon communities at large, lies within their highly secretive Temple ceremonies.
All members of the Mormon church are told they must attend these Temple ceremonies regularly. When inside the Temple, they all dress in long white Temple robes, hats and green aprons, kneel at Altars, where they promise to obey strict and secretive Temple Oaths, if they wish to achieve their Eternal Exaltation in Heaven. This is where faithful Mormons fully believe they will become Gods and Goddesses in eternity and rule with God in Heaven.
All Mormons must live their lives in complete obedience and compliance with very strict Mormon Laws and Commandments, including the wearing of special undergarments that must be worn 24 hours every day and night.
This is just a part of a very restrictive Mormon Doctrine that members of the church are taught in their classes and in their families. On top of all this they must pay 10% of all their gross annual income into the Mormon church before they are allowed entrance into their Temples to receive these Eternal blessings.
Members are told they must always obey and never question any church statements or decisions in any way whatsoever, as it is considered a sin against God to do this, by their church leaders.
All of these relentless pressures and more by the church leaders on their members, causes great emotional and psychological problems for many individuals and families within the highly secretive Mormon culture.
There are many good and decent members of the Mormon church who are under this constant pressure to become perfect by their church leaders, and it is a tragedy that many of them feel cut off and isolated at times from normal every day life and from the rest of the communities around them.
This book gives a glimpse into aspects of Mormon life but the deep doctrinal and underlying causes of this dysfunction suffered by many members of the Mormon church are not addressed in what is an otherwise a highly interesting and alluring commentary on Mormon family life.
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