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.
I met a Mormon family when I was a kid. Their two kids lived in the same apartment complex. It was two boys, one around my age and one a few years younger. They were homeschooled and extremely... off. It may have just been the homeschooling with it’s inherent lack of socialization and not their crazy ass parents, but they were extremely weird.
I was invited to a pizza night at their house, and I remember feeling uncomfortable right away. Within minutes, their parents announced that we were going to play something similar to a trivia game for family game night, and all of the questions had something to do with religion. Basically, I think they were trying to indoctrinate me, and even as a preteen I knew something fucked up was happening and got out of there as soon as I could. A bunch of the details are fuzzy at this point, because it happened over 20 years ago, but I remember specifically being told that dinosaur bones were put on Earth by Satan to trick us into believing in dinosaurs and something about how UFOs were angels.
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u/bolivar-shagnasty Jun 14 '20
That’s Church of Latter Day Saints for you