Liberal Mormon

One of the Tv Shows that I watch on a regular basis is a new show called Dollhouse. Dollhouse stars ironically, a non-practicing Mormon!!



Eliza Dushku was born and raised LDS but since involving herself in Hollywood she is no longer practicing the religion and is relatively famous for being involved in the TV Show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.



Dollhouse is a show about a group of people who volunteer to be part of company and essentially become "Dolls". They are play toys for multimillionaires. Someone can basically request someone EXACTLY the way they want it, for anything, and this company will wipe clean the memory of one of their dolls, and feed back in anything and everything the client desires for what ever purpose they're paying tons of money for, and when the contract is up, the dolls memory is wiped clean and has no recollection it ever happened. Eliza, is one of these "dolls" and her name is called "echo".

On this past weeks episode "echo" is sent into a sect compound to be the "eyes" for an ATF squad looking to bust a Cult group up because they're stocking up an arsenal of illegal weapons.

What I find astonishing is how similar, and I'm not sure if it was intentional, but probably, this sect was to the Texas Yearning for Zion Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is with the exception the episode does not mention in anyway polygamy. HOWEVER, they do say many things that would imply they were.



During the episode they used many words like Temple, Zion Ranch, the Texas Compound" and one of the sister's name was "Emma" a common LDS name referring back to Emma Smith, the first wife of Joseph Smith back in the 1800s.




Oddly, there is a very strange scripture written on the wall of their "temple" from an Old Testament book The Songs of Solomon Chapter 8 Verse 13that says:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

Of all the scriptures in the old testament why on earth would would the writers of this show choose a book like the Songs of Solomon? This isn't even inspired scripture. They're love letters, some a bit naughty. But my guess is the writers wanted to portray the group as weird and brainwashed as possible kinda like the weird FLDS people they're trying to copy.



So why and the hell is Hollywood so interested in these weirdos? Big love just broke the rules showing the LDS temple ceremony the other night (see previous blog post) and made a lot of people angry, but why does the public have such a fascination with these groups? And why do they continue to try and lump the REAL LDS Church with these splinter groups? Newsflash people, the LDS Church stopped allowing polygamy over a hundred years ago. IT'S OVER!

If you'd like to watch the episode in question you can watch here.