For example, people go through a long and invasive Temple ceremony for dead family members to baptize them post mortem, which is ridiculous and certainly not Christian.
Their rituals are disturbing and bizarre, but deemed necessary to achieve the highest level of heaven. This religion targets Christians without a true knowledge of the Bible and sells them half truths mixed with lies.
While Mormons do believe in God and Jesus, they also believe that God has a wife, that Satan is Jesus' brother, that there are three heavens and no hell, and that good works get you into heaven all beliefs that are torn to shreds by the Bible. While Robertson can be long-winded in her explanations, she uses the scripture to prove that Mormonism is no more Christian than the Jehovah's Witnesses. Robertson spills the beans on all thing Mormon in her book, detailing the top secret rituals and beliefs of the Mormons, as she details her seven years in the religion she now calls a cult. The author has hopped faiths several times but apparently has found her one true faith in Mormon-bashing. This book is just another case of the pot calling the kettle black. Mormonism has some strange beliefs and practices but so does every form of Christianity. 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. 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. 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). 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. 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. There is far more Jesus-pushing and talk about the rightness of non-Mormon Christianity. This is not a meaty book about Mormonism there is very little really about the religion or the people. The writing has no serious flaws it's adequate if a bit bland.
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