Charles,
Keep in mind that reading “Under the Banner of Heaven” would be like reading the History of Little Green Footballs, by Keith Olbermann, with a forward by Pam at AtlasShrugs, and published by the New York Times. You would hardly recognize yourself or your website.

Here is an LDS review of “Banner.” by noted historian Richard Turley.

This book has an extreme political agenda, and the examples of LDS people make enormous contributions to science, and math, and education in general are legion.

And Law
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And Harvard Business Professors

And Stanford Business Professors (one now an Apostle)

[Eyring]was on the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 1962 to 1971. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Utah and Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Business Administration degrees from Harvard University.

And Nuclear Physicists, State Supreme Court Judges, Pulitzer Prize Winners and many many more. Check this list for the

Ranking of the 100 Most Influential Mormons in American History

Philo Farnsworth - inventor of the television
Joseph Smith, Jr. - founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Brigham Young - 2nd President/Prophet of the Church; led Saints to Utah
Marvin Harris - inventor of the transistor radio
Alan Ashton - inventor of the modern word processor
Nolan Bushnell - Father of Video Games; inventor of “Pong”
Harvey Fletcher - inventor of the hearing aid, stereophonic sound, the audiometer, more than 20 other inventions
William Clayton - inventor of the odometer

And here is a story from today: Welfare Efforts Bring LDS and Jews together

Picture the following possibility, as posed by one of a handful of prominent Jewish rabbis in Salt Lake City this week to visit leaders and operations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

“We can come together to use Welfare Square and facilities there to have Jews and Mormons standing side by side, engaged in a project to help humanity,” said Rabbi John Borak of Los Angeles, one of five visiting rabbis from across the country.

He and Rabbi Brad Hirschfield of New York City were making a second call to LDS headquarters in less than six months. Both cited powerful first-visit experiences as catalysts to continue discussions regarding future interfaith cooperative efforts.

Rabbi Hirschfield recalled a statement from Jim Goodrich, manager of Welfare Square: “We are taught that you go to the temple to make covenants, and you come to Welfare Square to keep them.”

Saying the statement moved him to tears, Rabbi Hirschfield added, “And the test of the covenants we make is whether or not they actually benefit other people beyond our community. And it was clear to me that I was in the presence of masters of that teaching, and so why not would I return? For me, this is a beginning of shared discovery of how to strengthen that capacity in two communities.”