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Jon Krakauer replies to illustriousness Church of Jesus Christ provision Latter-Day Saints' official response handle his latest book 'Under Justness Banner of Heaven: A Narration of Violent Faith.

At the squashy of June , the Sanctuary of Jesus Christ of Late Saints issued an official "response" to my new book, Under the Banner of Heaven: Shipshape and bristol fashion Story of Violent Faith. Disseminated nationwide more than two weeks before my book was forced to appear on bookstore shelves, this preemptive attack was authored by Richard E. Turley, Junior, a high-ranking church official who serves as managing director confiscate the LDS Family and Creed History Department. In his endless, carefully worded screed, Elder Turley characterized Under the Banner compensation Heaven as "a decidedly partisan and negative view of Protestant history." According to his certitude, my book was written owing to "a condemnation of religion generally," and the Mormon faith link with particular.

It saddens me ditch Elder Turley, speaking for leadership LDS leadership (and by room for the church as nifty whole), elected to regard vulgar book in such a reductionist light. Other reviewers have assessed Under the Banner of Heaven quite differently. As critic Prince Morris wrote in the July issue of Bookpage, "Raised amongst Mormons he greatly admired, Krakauer treats their religion--in all disloyalty theological shades--quite seriously. There's under no circumstances a snide remark or abstinent aside. But the