Others – Mara Rauch

Finally, Rauch produces an example of a devotional body that has done the requisite work from the religious side of his equation—the Mormon church. By actual page count, he allocates a full fifth of the book—a bit more, in fact—to extolling Mormonism in this regard. (Not in all others, since he remains critical of its and other religions’ policies on gay rights and other issues. Also, it must be acknowledged that one of the reasons for the length of that part of Cross Purposes is that Rauch keeps referring to Mormonism over and over by its prolonged ‘Latter-Day, etc.’ official name.)