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Originally Posted by jtee  I understand, they truly believe that God has spoken to them and told them what is to be done. If God has told them that a 14 year old girl is to marry a man, then that is God's Will and there is nothing left to discuss. It is not that they are secretly plan to do things they know are wrong and hide behind their religion, they truly believe that God has told them what to do. That is the nature of fundamentalist thinking in FLDS. |
I agree, their beliefs are very strong...watching the trial though, I couldn't get past thinking that there is a lot of brainwashing of the younger children, I mean, how else could you get that many people to all have identical beliefs, even my Mom and Dad have slightly different beliefs regarding religion, yet they have gone to the same church their entire married life together.
There is not a lot of free-thinkers in the FLDS, that's another thing I thought during the trial, it was like everybody was reading from the exact same script.
The trial actually weirded me out so many times. And it was very hard for the pros. to get past their belief system, which in most cases was way out of whack with reality, but never did they budge from it. At one point I thought the pros. was about to leap over the desk and start slappin one guy silly yelling "are you listening to yourself?"