Sign in with Facebook
Mimi's Reviews > Burned
Burned (Burned, #1)
by
by
**Spoilers**
This book smarts of ex mormon/ anti-mormon anger. I don't know what "church" the author or the character got her information from, but it certainly wasn't mine. If I had ever experienced what the girl in this book did by the hands of leaders and members I certainty wouldn't be "mormon" and probably wouldn't be keeping my mouth closed either. I don't doubt abuse in the LDS church happens, especially abuse of power, because what religion is clean and of scandal, controversy, and lies. (Let's not forget, it's run by mortals.) And I have experienced an LDS man thinking he had a God given right to rule over women, but that exists no matter where you look. Not because it is in Mormon doctrine. People will claim that they can find God's words to justify their actions, but that is merely their way of assuaging their own personal guilt. But luckily I don't judge millions of members, and good men and women, by the rantings of a few angry and bitter people, even if their anger is justified.
But the evil members of an evil church seemed to be the entire theme of the book. The Mormon church represented here reminded me more of what I have heard of FLDS than anything close to what I have seen in the LDS church.
Even the love story seemed shallow. We never got to know Ethan, just that he was a gorgeous cowboy who turned Pattyn on. He seemed like a good guy, but we never got to know him. Pattyn says she doesn't want their whole relationship to be about sex, but then that was all we ever got to see of their relationship. Then, the whole turmoil behind her deciding to sleep with him ultimately resulted in a pregnancy that killed them all. She fretted and worried about getting pregnant, which was the last thing she wanted, and then she slept with him over and over again with minimal caution.
So let's say, hypothetically, she had waited to have sex like her "church" wanted, then she could have finished her last year of school, turned 18, married the man, moved to the country and been a happy bumpkin. Right?! So was she supposed to listen to her "church?" What is the moral we are really trying to get out of this?
Mormons are evil?
Sex leads to babies?
Wait to have sex until you can handle the consequences?
I am completely confused about what the whole point is.
This book smarts of ex mormon/ anti-mormon anger. I don't know what "church" the author or the character got her information from, but it certainly wasn't mine. If I had ever experienced what the girl in this book did by the hands of leaders and members I certainty wouldn't be "mormon" and probably wouldn't be keeping my mouth closed either. I don't doubt abuse in the LDS church happens, especially abuse of power, because what religion is clean and of scandal, controversy, and lies. (Let's not forget, it's run by mortals.) And I have experienced an LDS man thinking he had a God given right to rule over women, but that exists no matter where you look. Not because it is in Mormon doctrine. People will claim that they can find God's words to justify their actions, but that is merely their way of assuaging their own personal guilt. But luckily I don't judge millions of members, and good men and women, by the rantings of a few angry and bitter people, even if their anger is justified.
But the evil members of an evil church seemed to be the entire theme of the book. The Mormon church represented here reminded me more of what I have heard of FLDS than anything close to what I have seen in the LDS church.
Even the love story seemed shallow. We never got to know Ethan, just that he was a gorgeous cowboy who turned Pattyn on. He seemed like a good guy, but we never got to know him. Pattyn says she doesn't want their whole relationship to be about sex, but then that was all we ever got to see of their relationship. Then, the whole turmoil behind her deciding to sleep with him ultimately resulted in a pregnancy that killed them all. She fretted and worried about getting pregnant, which was the last thing she wanted, and then she slept with him over and over again with minimal caution.
So let's say, hypothetically, she had waited to have sex like her "church" wanted, then she could have finished her last year of school, turned 18, married the man, moved to the country and been a happy bumpkin. Right?! So was she supposed to listen to her "church?" What is the moral we are really trying to get out of this?
Mormons are evil?
Sex leads to babies?
Wait to have sex until you can handle the consequences?
I am completely confused about what the whole point is.
Sign into Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to see if any of your friends have read
Burned.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
Started Reading
October 18, 2010
– Shelved
October 18, 2010
–
Finished Reading
Comments Showing 1-2 of 2 (2 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Titus214
(new)
Aug 06, 2014 11:58AM
“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.� � Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, March 8, 1863. This is from a Mormon leader. A religion full of hate and crazy.
reply
|
flag
Titus214, as someone who is not religious but has looked into multiple religions, I can say that there are bad seeds in every faith, people who use their religion to excuse themselves from what they've done, or what they think. But to say that a religion as a whole is full of hate and crazy seems to be a very broad and rather ignorant statement. There is flaw in all religion, but when it comes down to it there is no religion purely dedicated to hate.
