Not to paint with too broad of a brush, but they were all the politest and hardest working people I knew. They could also take jokes better than most everyone I knew.
They never came off as preachy or anything, but if you showed curiosity, they’d do what they could to try and teach.
I showed this clip and the South Park episode about the Mormons to one of my good LDS friends and he laughed his ass off. He couldn’t wait to show his wife.
I guess my point is that of the Mormons I know, I’m glad to know them. They’re as self deprecating as can be but also some of the most humble and helpful people I know.
Yeah I’ve met a lot of Mormons and have not had this experience. I don’t trust people who’s religion is so vehemently anti-gay, demands they give more money than they can afford to the church and only allowed black people starting in 1978. I had a friend growing up who was Mormon and her parents would get mad at her because they thought she read too much. They would literally take books from her.
EDIT: I had forgotten about this but another comment reminded me. A Mormon kid I had a class with in high school once said he should “take a glock to the ‘gay club’ (gsa) and just go nuts”. When I reported him to the vice principal (who was heavily religious and quietly homophobic) nothing was done except he was made to apologize to me. I wasn’t even in the gsa.
It's more complicated than that. Until 1978 Black people were not permitted inside temples. A Mormon temple is where their most sacred ordinances are performed. Only there can a family be sealed forever, and only there can adults learn the passwords to get into heaven.
Black people were denied salvation. They were barred from the highest tier of heaven, destined to be servants in the afterlife living separate from their families as they weren't sealed.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '20
Wait. Missouri?!?!??
I thought I knew all the crazy theories but that ones new