Limited Series. 4 Episodes
Watched on #Netflix
Language: English
Genre: True Story, Documentary
If there's anything that should be questioned in every society, I think it's the rigid imposition of religious beliefs. Faith itself can be a positive force, offering hope in times of adversity. However, when faith becomes blind and unquestioning, when religion is enforced rather than chosen freely, and when individuals are made to accept everything a single person says as the word of God—a God whom none have seen—then it may be better to reconsider blind faith altogether.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey touches all the chords for the wrong reasons. The fact that it’s NOT fiction and is real, is what gives you the chills. Being born into a certain custom you have no choice but not knowing what’s right and wrong for your children is something I can’t as a mother understand.
A 4 episode docuseries; it talks about the FLDS - Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormons who practiced polygamy/plural marriage. And I don’t mean plural as in you can have 2, 3 or 4 wives but as many as 78 wives! Ages can be anywhere from your mum’s age to a 12 year old girl. And yes, these 12-14 year old also, got pregnant!
The documentary is done so well, each episode ends on a note where you want to see what’s next. You so want them to be punished yet you see how it is something they so strongly believe in that there is nothing they can think of otherwise. That is simply their way of living. Infact, it is the only way they know, how to live.
There were people who were part of a 62 siblings group! Not perhaps knowing even the names of all. Women and girls were exchanged like cattle “I will give you some if you give me some”.
Often, a male dominated society gets away with rules like “This is my right and this is your duty.” And this line is used as justification for raping a 12-14 year old just because the leader claimed to have had a vision to marry and impregnate that girl.
I have watched many other documentaries around the Mormons but this one is something more eerie. If you like to keep building your knowledge on the world around you then take some time out and watch it. For the treatment, the research, the presentation, for its authenticity – It deserves *****
What’s disheartening is that the community still exists, cut off from the world, believing what they have been taught... living in fear, waiting for Zion.
And while you thought all this is long gone and even if it exists only happens deep in the jungle or some godforsaken village then NO, you're mistaken.
-SuVi
*****Fantabulous
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***Nice
**Okay
*Why?
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