Comments about ‘Religious leaders say HBO overstepped bounds’

I seem to remember some LDS missionaries getting a lot of heat for disrespecting another religion's sacred site in Colorado a while back. Shouldn't other people take the same heat when they disrespect ANY religion?

Boo hoo.

The representation was completely accurate. What exactly are you complaining about?

[[Jackson and Richard Wolf, an elder with the Jehovah's Witnesses in Davis County, said Hollywood likes to be sensational.
"Everything is game to Hollywood," Jackson said. "Hollywood is in the business of making money]]


It's unlikely HBO would whitewash the dirty laundry of the Watchtower society.Moreover,the parent corporation of Jehovah's Witnesses the Watchtower is also out to 'make money'.
Google * Jehovah's Witnesses* for interesting script material.

Professionalism includes respect & fairness among others. Much as there is freedom of expression within legal bounds, I still belive that the belief of any religious group, faith or organisation should be respected. Trust some lessons must have been learnt.

I have no idea what MTC you went through but I have been on two missions and the MTC twice and other religions were not even mentioned let alone, your accusations. You sir, never set foot in any MTC. Caught you lying didn't I?

Since when did the Jehovah's Witness religion start respecting other religions? They think every religion except for their own is of Satan. JW's used to picket in front of churches with placards saying things like 'religion is a snare and a racket'.

What is to be expected from the basis of the show? It is to ruffle feathers and promote interest in the show. Poor taste + disrespect = dollars, the typical Hollywood revenue equation.

Some of the poor bloggers above don't understand that sacred isn't an every day topic. While Mormons aren't perfect (and no one is), the goal of church members is to strive to be a better person every day (should be everyone's goal). Not a bad goal to have despite those who want to tear it down.

End the criticism and analyze ways to improve your own lives. Tearing down others never builds one's own self.

that wasn't racist, homophobic or otherwise somehow could be deemed offensive using today's standards.

Since the HBO producers said they research the sacred Temple ceremonies in every detail, they would have invariably come across the warnings that are built into the ceremony not to reveal them or they would call down the judgments of God. I would hate to think what kind of repercussions that might entail knowing that these things arent things to be trifled with and that God cannot stand idly by. If they truly understood what the ceremony is saying and that God has built into the ceremony a warning voice that these things arent to be spread outside the walls of the sacred temples, it certainly is evidence that these producers disregarded any attempt to keep them sacred and have blatantly come out against the very ceremonies themselves. They will have no one to blame for what is to come forth, for the judgments of God will surely come as is stated in the very ceremonies they researched and overtly depicted. I am so appalled at the total disregard by HBO of religious rites being blatantly displayed without any regard for their obvious sacredness.

the HBO 'apology' is like someone saying 'I'm really sorry if this offends you, but I am going to do it anyway.' Suppose a bank robber, or a mugger, or a terrorist said it...would it be accepted as an apology then? Of course not...

as I am forever teaching my kids, 'I'm sorry' means 'I am sorry I did that (or thought to do that) and I promise I won't do it any more (or at all)'
Otherwise, the apology is worth nothing...

There are few in our society that understand the difference between secret and sacred. Trying to explain the difference here would not be worth the effort.

However, I'm guessing the HBO execs who chose to air this episode would be incensed if I trespassed in their home after cleaning out the cow barn. Maybe I could prop my boots up on their coffee table or shed my mud covered clothes on their suede sofa.

Of course, prior to entering their home I would issue an apology for poop stains on the carpet that I intend to make, but I would still enter their home and leave poop stains on the carpet.

the LDS church isn't 'struggling' to be recognised as anything. We just object when people claim we are not Christian...

Enter Danny Haszard for interesting script material.

I personally don't think it could possibly be accurate without the spirit of understanding. That is my faith.

But for those who share my LDS faith and are upset by this, consider each time you make that "Vulcan" greeting or call someone a "guru." Carefulness and respect must go both ways.

By the way, was a worthless apology on the part of HBO.

You must have been at a different MTC than I went to in the 1980's. Contempt? Disrespect? Dismissal? I don't think so. I don't know any religion that assists as many "other" religions as the LDS church. It is amazing how apostates like zulu recreate history to cover their own shortcomings and faults. The MTC taught me love, not contempt, even for those who continually slam my church on these websites. Sounds like zulu is a spill-over from the hate-filled SL Trib.

LDS thrusts themselves into the MOST sacred areas of LGBT families and attempted to have their LEGAL marriages disolved, and to have them be the one minority outside the equal protection clause.
DON'T whine when a big white hot glaring spotlight is shined on YOU.....seriously don't!

"In approaching the dramatization of the endowment ceremony, we knew we had a responsibility to be completely accurate and to show the ceremony in the proper context and with respect"

Depicting someone who is trespassing in the temple by using another person's recommend is not ompletely accurate or in the proper context and is completely disrespectful.

With several writers for "Big Love" being disillusioned artists with LDS ties, and with the need to use controversy to increase ratings, it follows that they would try to use sacred temple ordinances to raise viewership. In so doing they seal their own coffin. Since the entire program is supposedly fictional with no relationship to LDS beliefs, the representation is odd at best.

Well, what you going to do? Do you show your own Christian Courage and turn the other cheek or do you get all up in arms? I like to consider it a back handed compliment that Hollywood, though lacking the spiritual depth to understand my beliefs, would consider my beliefs worthy of misrepresenting. Of course they had hoped to portray events as authenticly as possible, yet they lack the ability and the desire to truly understand them. None of that is really important to them. Sensationalism is more box office worthy, they suppose.

The last movie to try to spit in the LDS face was the hideous September Dawn. These tactics almost always fizzle instead of sizzle.

The Book of Mormon described a Great and Spacious Building. It stinks when your mockery fulfills prophecy.

Hollywood will never bring down the Church of Jesus Christ.