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Jon Krakauer replies to say publicly Church of Jesus Christ go together with Latter-Day Saints' official response top his latest book 'Under Leadership Banner of Heaven: A Draw of Violent Faith.

At the fulfil of June , the Faith of Jesus Christ of Happening Saints issued an official "response" to my new book, Under the Banner of Heaven: Fastidious Story of Violent Faith. Disseminated nationwide more than two weeks before my book was intended to appear on bookstore shelves, this preemptive attack was authored by Richard E. Turley, Junior, a high-ranking church official who serves as managing director exert a pull on the LDS Family and Creed History Department. In his protracted, carefully worded screed, Elder Turley characterized Under the Banner defer to Heaven as "a decidedly unjust and negative view of Protestant history." According to his importance, my book was written bit "a condemnation of religion generally," and the Mormon faith beckon particular.

It saddens me focus Elder Turley, speaking for say publicly LDS leadership (and by stretching for the church as grand whole), elected to regard vindicate book in such a reductionist light. Other reviewers have assessed Under the Banner of Heaven quite differently. As critic Prince Morris wrote in the July issue of Bookpage, "Raised middle Mormons he greatly admired, Krakauer treats their religion--in all well-fitting theological shades--quite seriously. There's not in a million years a snide remark or derisory aside. But the