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Reader responses regarding "The Mormons" PBS series

Published: Thursday, May 3, 2007 12:10 a.m. MDT
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I really enjoyed both Segments. I think it took a very well balanced look at the church. I thought the praise for the church was very well done and highlighted what I love about being a member. I know many members want to think everything about the church is perfect. In my opinion the only thing imperfect about the church are it's members, hence incidents like Mountain Meadows, Prophets (as men) misspeaking hence John Taylor. — Kevin Fletcher, Bozeman, Mont.

I appreciated the effort to try and get both views on the different aspects of the Mormons, of which I am a member, but it still left me with a negative feeling. There is so much more to know on the positive side. Since I have been a member all my life, I have had years to learn about so many wonderful things about the church history and present events. I worried about the feelings a new member would have from watching this documentary. Thanks, — Sharol Snowball

I feel the "documentary" should have been titled "The Mormons: A Few Facts and Many Opinions".

It's like all documentaries, you get skewed sides depending on where your beliefs are. As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California (born and raised here in the golden state) I have a very strong testimony and this show just proved MORE to me that the Gospel is true. There was only one perfect man who walked the earth and that was Jesus Christ. The rest of us are all going to make mistakes along the way.

The church is true, — Maryann from California

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I didn't like the dark, foreboding tone or the music during the program. Left me feeling down and depressed. Not enough positive elements to lift our spirits. This was not my perception of the LDS Faith. — Karen Ellis

I am a member of the church. I am responding after having seen only the first 2 hours.

I contents of the first 2 hours of the documentary were not totally unexpected by me. When outsides investigate and report on religious movements, they tend to focus on the bizarre, the abnormal, the different, as well as the failings of movement members to hold to their professed standards. After all, the public generally wants to see the sordid. So the time spent on peep stones in hats, "embellishments" to the First Vision in later versions, polygamy, the Mountain Meadows incident, and so forth was not surprising.

I cannot and will not recommend this product as an impartial introduction as to who we are. Do we really look this strange to the world??

I look forward (with a skeptical eye) to the second night. — Monte Clason, Altus, Oklahoma

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