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Judy Robertson

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I picked this book up on amazon when it was available for free. For the last few years, I've been interested in reading about the Mormon lifestyle (lifestyle, not so much the religion itself) & about how people have escaped the life.

I couldn't have been more disappointed with the book.

The book begins with her life pre-Mormonism, but the author, Judy, only gives the most basic explanation of why & how they converted to Mormonism. Something as life changing as CHANGING YOUR RELIGION isn't going to happen overnight; I think she was trying to simplify the story, in order to move the plot along, but she oversimplified way too much. As she talks about converting, she kept talking about how internally she kept screaming that this was wrong -- and I just don't buy it. Maybe it's the way she wrote it or maybe it just seems way too awfully convenient to me that she had doubts - because seriously, if she had doubts, why on earth would she have converted? If she did have doubts, then she should have explained it better so the reader would better understand where she was coming from.

The next section of her book explains how they converted, some of the things that they had to do day to day, & then all of a sudden they decide not to be Mormons any more & they are just allowed to leave. I don't really know much about that (which is why I read the book in the first place) but it just seemed way too easy to just leave. If it was really that easy to leave, why wouldn't more Mormons who want to leave the church, actually leave the church? So their friends were disappointed... so what? I just didn't get that.

The last half of the book was extremely preachy: I think what Judy & her husband is doing is wonderful, helping other Mormons to escape, but the whole second half of the book is devoted to that work. If that was the whole point of the book (which after reading the book, it seems that way to me), then the book should have been called How I Help Mormons to escape, instead of Out of Mormonism, because little was devoted to her escaping.

On TOP of all that, the book was so badly written & edited, I kept cringing inside, & I'm by far not the best writer. So if I'm cringing, imagine how bad the writing was.
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anastaciaknits | 5 andra recensioner | Oct 29, 2016 |
I really enjoyed this book. It answered a lot of questions I had regarding Mormonism... and then some!
 
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redhedcatie | 5 andra recensioner | Feb 25, 2015 |
Not sure what to say about this book. The writing has no serious flaws; it's adequate if a bit bland. This is not a meaty book about Mormonism; there is very little really about the religion or the people. There is far more Jesus-pushing and talk about the rightness of non-Mormon Christianity.

Rather than address issues like how women are treated by the LDS church, or how it's tenants may harm families, or any real criticism of the Mormon faith, the author instead decides to go with "the Church of the Latter-Day Saints is a Satanic Cult" as a her main issue with Mormonism.

I got the feeling from reading the book that the author didn't have any real problem with the Mormon church other than it's strangeness. And it is strange to her because she was raised in a different Christian faith (which would be equally strange to someone raised Mormon, or Buddhist, or whatever). That is me giving her the benefit of the doubt; she claims to have been a Mormon-convert for 7 years; it's hard to believe they were a Satanic cult the whole time and she never noticed till the end. Her only proof that they are such is that some of the practices of the Mormon church conflict with passages in the Bible; but what kind of proof is that when most Christian's practices conflict with some parts of the bible? Are Baptists a Satanic cult too, because they outlaw dancing and the bible has almost nothing but positive mentions of dancing? I think not.

Mormonism has some strange beliefs and practices; but so does every form of Christianity. This book is just another case of the pot calling the kettle black. The author has hopped faiths several times but apparently has found her one true faith in Mormon-bashing.
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broccolima | 5 andra recensioner | Jan 26, 2014 |
 
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