Commentary: David Archuleta’s new post-LDS single is steeped in Mormon beliefs

In singing about his preference to “go to hell together” with his mother, the “American Idol” alum pays homage to his LDS roots just as he powerfully subverts certain conceptions of the afterlife.

The basic thrust of this conviction — that heaven cannot be so if we end up separated from those we love — is a thoroughly Mormon one, with its roots in the faith’s earliest days.“Let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. Where this people are, there is good society.

Rather than an anthem of unrestrained hedonistic apostasy, Archuleta’s single strikes me as a deep-seated Mormon ethic that I have espoused since my teenage years. First instilled from my mother’s transition out of Mormonism, I find myself entirely and unapologetically disinterested in any eternity that lacks the continued presence of my family members and friends.

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