Balancing Ross Krakaeur et al with FLDS sites and Knoll A redux The following is chiefly excerpted from commentary above External links are many Should readers follow the link to Bannking on Heaven they ll quickly size up it s journalistic expose by Jon Kraukaeur and Ruth Cooke featuring Elaine Jeffs Carolyn Jessop and Penny Peterson should they click over to Rick Ross Institute that they re at a Christian apologetic anti heresy site and should they end up at FLDS 101 that they re at an anon blog by a highly informed partisan giving his take albeit much more dispassionately in many aspects than either of the two alternate sources I just mentioned Anyways a fundamentalist Latter Day Saint at least generically by culture and or belief although obviously not currently beholden to the Jeffs led specifically FLDS faith is in the process of blogging a veritable compendium of FLDS doctrines and beliefs known as FLDS 101 blogging under the psuedonym Berry Knoll in which he quotes extensively from the lectures of Warren Steed Jeffs and from excerpts of interviews with current and former members of the polygamous splinter group Insiders would recognize Berry Knoll as the juniper covered hill south of town Colorado City Arizona Hildale Utah said to be the site for the temple the polygamous church had hoped to construct one day Banking on Heaven In the FLDS Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints women are chattel and young boys are kicked out so older polygamous men can have sex with young girls Everybody does what they re told because the prophet Warren Jeffs is God FLDS 101 The FLDS yearn for Zion to live in a society free from sin and contention where all things are held in common without jealousy a heaven on earth As the FLDS leadership continued to prophesy that the end of the world was quickly approaching they taught the people that wickedness needed to be purged from their society Jeffs taught One or two covenant breakers can cause the Lord to stop blessing this people As long as we have evil doers among us the Lord s blessings will be withheld Zion must be pure We can t have evil people among the priesthood for the Lord to appear and bless us like He would like to Be this a warning W S J 12 26 95 Jeffs laid the doctrinal groundwork to justify a cleansing of the FLDS Their theology teaches that an ancient city lead by a prophet named Enoch was taken up into heaven because of their righteousness The FLDS believe they can be taken up too as the wicked world is destroyed Yearning for Zion a hymn by W S Jeffs 3rd verse Imagine the people of Enoch of old trained in the order of heaven A beautiful city the Lord called his own and forever made his abode Coming to join with the Zion on earth when finally the earth finds its rest A kingdom established in celestial laws a people the Lord can accept A New Jerusalem it will be a land of refuge a city of peace