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I think you are forgetting that the Browns ARE AUB. This is their religion, which they chose to bring to the television audience. THEY have chosen to expose their religion to public scrutiny. They thought the TV exposure would make their religion look good. Maybe get some converts. Part of their religion, incorporated into the doctrine of blood atonement, is that some sins are so heinous that even the blood of Christ is not sufficient for redemption, you have to spill your own. And one of those heinous, unforgivable sins is adultery. Since Meri was catfished, does the betrayal count as adultery? How the family deals with this depends on whether they think she has committed adultery. In their religion, adultery is about as bad as it gets.

I just saw the preview thing with Meri crying about how she pulled away from the family to protect them. Interesting spin. Also Garrison acting out. Not impressed with Kody's parenting skills, apparently. Kids on the couch talking about how there's always drama. They are getting used to it.

Well if it's the creation of a new world order does that mean It has to turn into "Real Housewives of Los Alamos?" Because I don't know how much more estrogen I can stand. The lesbian sex stuff was bad enough, but Abby lurking around and popping out behind corners to tell Charlie the latest thrilling news around the neighborhood is awful. I was really hoping she'd leave Charlie.

So, Christine, who is behaving more and more erratically and seems to need her medication adjusted, did grow up in a family which not only believed in Blood Atonement, they practiced it, which would suggest she is quite capable of snapping and saving everybody from eternal damnation by killing them all. The only question is, will the production crew be on hand to videograph it?

It's not murder if you kill them to save their souls from hell, you know. You're doing them a favor!

The Browns are AUB. They are "those groups."

I was just thinking about a talk show Brady Bunch reunion and a member of the audience explained the show's appeal: "You wanted to be part of the family." The show was for kids whose own families didn't measure up, they were the family everybody wanted. Likewise that Jim Carrey film, The Cable Guy, was about a man with a shitty childhood who grew up immersed in Idealized television families. I'm starting to think this is Jamie's problem: she had a shitty childhood, she saw idealized TV families, and she won't be satisfied until she gets it. And she will continue to appear on TV shows until she gets it. But she never will. It's all totally pathetic, that's what it is.

The efforts of the LDS to distance themselves from the beliefs, practices and history of fundamental Mormonism continues. One of the things I find interesting about AUB, FLDS, etc is they consider themselves to be the only true adherents, and that LDS, while not being in a state of Apostasy, is pretty darn close. The Doctrine of blood atonement says there's a list of sins which require the physical death of the sinner or he will go to Hell. Killing him saves his soul, so you are doing him a favor. If he dies for his own sins he will be able to go to Heaven, or some planet, so he should submit to execution voluntarily. As practiced it was ritualized human sacrifice. So of course the LDS wants to revise this one, it's even worse than polygamy.

There's a third option: Blood Atonement. In addition to polygamy, fundamentalist Mormon sects have this concept of Blood Atonement. (Remember LDS is, in their minds, a watered down version of Mormonism. The concept is based on the idea that there are some sins so heinous that the blood of Christ isn't enough. (Unlike the latest declaration from the Pope that No sin, even abortion, is too great for God's forgiveness) In the case of such heinous sins, only shedding the blood of the sinner will save his soul from eternal damnation. And those sins are murder, apostasy, covenant-breaking, adultery, and miscegenation. Sounds more and more like Islam doesn't it? Anyway, Meri just might have to be led out into the backyard and executed by firing squad. So her blood will soak into the hallowed ground of the cul-de-sac. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_atonement

I wasn't aware of some of these other sects, the blood feuds and contract killings; these families are like rival organized crime syndicates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron

I thought that was Frank's badge Liza wore to get close to Charlie, and got caught. So how would he get back in? The trunk of the car? How did Liza get the car if the elf smuggled her out under a tarp in the back of a jeep? I can't figure out why Frank called her "Martha" when she got him out of prison.

http://52weeks52churches.blogspot.com/2014/05/my-surreal-visit-to-apostolic-united.html?m=1 Here's a description of a visit to the AUB compound. Some of it is vague but it does describe the members as wearing ""modern clothing"

. They belong to the AUB, Apostolic United Brethren. They are Mormons.

LOL- you win the internet today!

It occurs to me that perhaps the religious aspects, which I recall we used to see more often, have been toned down due to pressure from the LDS. The LDS might have rejected Maddie to drive home the point. I wouldn't be surprised if they took legal action to enjoin the Browns from referring to themselves as Mormons. As for what happens to these women in the afterlife I don't see what difference it makes if they go to Planet Uranus or Planet Urinal

Of course it's not his fault, his religion, which he used to bring up in almost every episode as justification for all this, has put him in the position of high priest. He is infallible, like the Pope.

Yes, they have added a lot, like marriage in Eternity, when Jesus stated, very clearly and quoted in both Matthew and Mark, marriage will not exist. Jesus was also pretty clear that nobody gets to the Kingdom except through Him, and never said anything about women needing husbands to go. When you really study these teachings you can start to see why Mormons were persecuted as heretics by Christians. They really were driven west in fear for their lives, so they weren't paranoid, people really were out to get them. This led them to create insular communities and develop a siege mentality.

Oppie returned to see the baby I suppose, get his wife to sign divorce papers and tender his resignation. He was just cleaning out his office, that sort of thing. Abby's phone call prompted the suicide. When I googled the mistress, it seems she was under FBI surveillance because she was a known commie, and the circumstances of her death were suspicious at the time. (Kind of like Marilyn Monroe's, everybody knew she was a threat to the Kennedy's dynastic aspirations, so of course people were suspicious) So Charlie complaining that the project would tank if the mistress got in the way is one possibility. Anyway, she's dead now. I was thinking of Abby's boredom because right after I posted how she should be too busy to be bored I remembered I lived like that for two years, almost 40 years ago. I lived in government housing on the Standing Rock reservation, which straddles the border of North and South Dakota. I had a toddler and was pregnant with #2, I had no dishwasher or clothes dryer, and we used cloth diapers. (The sun bleaches out the poop stains perfectly, they always came off the line snowy white) I had neither job nor manicured nails nor perfectly coiffed hair. I don't remember being bored. I certainly don't recall having time to worry about the neighbors' marital issues. I don't remember much about it. I planted a tree behind the house, and I can monitor its progress on google satellite images. Now I really wonder what Abby has done with Joey.

My understanding is if the wife dies first she hangs around in some other place until her husband dies, and then if she was a good sweet wife and he still cares for her, he will call her by a secret name known only to the two of them, and will "pull her through the veil." if he doesn't remember her secret name, or doesn't want her to join him on his planet, she doesn't get to go. The husband is the priest, teacher, savior and redeemer. Nobody gets to the kingdom except through him. The women really are stuck. One poster here said something like "I wish these women would realize they don't need a man," as if this were all a secular, economic problem. But it is a religious problem. It would be like telling a Christian "I wish you would realize you don't need Jesus." They can't leave their marriages without leaving their religion. I don't know where the women spend eternity if they don't join Kody on Uranus, but it must not be pleasant,

It could be like the way the "experts" on Married At First Sight came to view the viewers. Don't know if any of you watched it, but the viewers absolutely trashed the experts for the terrible job they did matching the couples. And the experts countered by claiming that the viewers just aren't intelligent enough to understand the complexity of the process. I figure it's like that, we are just too dumb to understand how wonderful polygamy is, so now they will have to be less subtle. Look for Christine to tell us, every week, how each episode illustrates the differences between polygamy and monogamy, "see, in monogamy you can't do that, in polygamy you can do this." We will probably have this pointed out to us every week, from the couch. They'll make it simple for us, because we're too dumb to figure it out.

I think that's what we are supposed to get, she's texting Jackie. . Haha, they can't pronounce "picture" because they were homeschooled!? That's hilarious!

Abby really annoys me. She has a child, (although I'm starting to wonder if Joey is kept locked in the basement) and a job, and a house to keep, and no modern appliances, she should be too busy to be bored, washing dishes in the sink and hanging laundry on the clothesline. It's not surprising she's unhappy, but she should be too tired to think about it.

D-day was hardly a game changer at the time. The Battle of the Bulge was 6 months away. it took almost a full year of intense fighting before it was over in Europe, with not a lot of confidence that the Allies would win. No way anybody was thinking "game over" In June '44.

https://vimeo.com/30114608Look at this ad from DeBeer Consolidated Mines and THEN say nobody would be insulted by a gift of a three-stone Diamond Past Present &Future jewelry piece from the step children of your exhusband. Robyn must have gone to Gold & Silver Pawn and specifically requested the most hurtful, insulting piece of shit to rub Meri's nose in. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vXHm8TzLzE Here's another one.

Serial polygamists stop banging their ex's (usually) after divorce. The adults go their separate ways and when the children visit they don't (usually) take the custodial parent with them. So when they visit, the attention is on them, the kids. Activities involve them, such as camping, going to the beach, movies, museums. Those of us who have been in these situations know how it works: "we'll go to (fill in the blank) when the other kids are here, then we can all go together." This polygamy thing has all these women so eager to stroke their husband's ego the children get in the way. Just imagine if the first 3 wives moved away, and sent all their kids to Kody and Robyn's house in the summer, for the same 2 weeks. The scene would be completely different. It would also be Karma.