He then leads us most ungently through almost 200 years of LDS history and even more forcefully into the world of the estimated 30,000 to 100,000 apostates who have broken away from the accepted church to populate Mormon fundamentalist groups (FLDS). In this remarkably well-researched work, Krakauer takes the non-Mormon (Gentile) back to the beginnings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), which proclaims itself to be the world's only true religion. Everest - treads where few others dare to go, writing about religion, unveiling grisly murders and such sexual perversions as incest, child rape, pedophilia and plural marriage among fallen-away members of the Mormon Church. In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer - best known for Into Thin Air, his chronicle of disaster on Mt. While we may laugh uproariously at "Saturday Night Live" spoofs of whoever is in office or blink our eyes in delicious shock at the latest peccadilloes on "Sex and the City," bringing up one's own religious beliefs or scoffing at someone else's faith may be deemed rude or incendiary, depending upon how long it takes to redirect the conversation. There is one area, however, that is still scrupulously avoided in secular circles - religion.
Acceptable topics for conversation, television and movies have long since come to include graphic violence, explicit sex and derisive and salacious commentary on political office holders, including the president.
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