The Mormon Cult
November 11, 2014 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2014 at 6:34 pm by warlocksarebest.)
Hiyas! Okay, like most of you know, I'm an ex-mormon. One of the things that led to my deconversion was finding that Mormonism is a cult. How? That's what I'm explaining here.
Number One: Missionaries.
The Mormon church often tricks people into going on "missions" to other countries, so they can convert people into their religion, get them to go on missions, and so on.
The trick here is that the parents pay money for your food and such. But some of that money just goes to the church. This process of missionaries is just a way to get money.
Number Two: Tithing.
Tithing is paying 10% pf your earnings to your church to build temples, churches, and so on. This is clearly a scheme, but Mormons don't notice that. Only us atheists really do.
Number Two: Religion.
The word cult. Its kind of in the definition.
1
: formal religious veneration : worship
2
: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3
: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4
: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5
a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b : the object of such devotion
c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
This definition is from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult
Worship, according to merriam-webster, is worship, or a system of religious beliefs and rituals.
That's all you really need to prove it is a cult.
Other sources: Me, and my parents
Thanks for reading!
-warlocksarebest
Number One: Missionaries.
The Mormon church often tricks people into going on "missions" to other countries, so they can convert people into their religion, get them to go on missions, and so on.
The trick here is that the parents pay money for your food and such. But some of that money just goes to the church. This process of missionaries is just a way to get money.
Number Two: Tithing.
Tithing is paying 10% pf your earnings to your church to build temples, churches, and so on. This is clearly a scheme, but Mormons don't notice that. Only us atheists really do.
Number Two: Religion.
The word cult. Its kind of in the definition.
1
: formal religious veneration : worship
2
: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3
: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4
: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5
a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b : the object of such devotion
c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
This definition is from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult
Worship, according to merriam-webster, is worship, or a system of religious beliefs and rituals.
That's all you really need to prove it is a cult.
Other sources: Me, and my parents
Thanks for reading!
-warlocksarebest
