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Which denominations have you spotted on this forum?
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RE: Which denominations have you spotted on this forum?
(August 14, 2017 at 2:53 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(August 13, 2017 at 6:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'd like to add that I particularly really like mormons. All the mormons I've ever met have been really down to earth, super good people.

Well that's only on the surface because they do secretly go through life under tremendous pressures: pressure to keep smiling, pressure to conform, pressure to get married in the Temple, pressure to have lots of children, pressure to be the perfect wife/husband/child, pressure to be straight, pressure to squelch doubts, pressure to devote all their free time to the church, pressure to uphold untenable dogma, pressure to be financially successful, pressure to maintain appearances, pressure to always say that you’re happy. Just ask them and they will tell you so. It is no coincidence that Utah ranks number one in incidents of depression and suicides, nationwide. 1 & 2

Also Utah leads the nation in fraud because of the Mormons. source

They are also very agressive toward non-Mormons as witnessed by their aggressive campaign to pump money and volunteer hours into the notorious anti-gay Proposition 8 in California, as well as their less visible decades-long efforts against lesbian and gay rights, documented in films like 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010).

Or their polygamy? It doesn't bother you that many women and children are being brought up in isolated, inbred, fundamentalist compounds? That Mormons are marrying women that are still young teenagers? They usually legally marry just one wife, the others are wed in purely religious ceremonies without any marriage license where mothers give birth every year. Then majority of them is on welfare and lives in severe poverty. Most polygamist groups rely heavily on food stamps, Medicaid, economic development funds, and other government services to support their enormous families. Many plural wives are on welfare as "single mothers." They call working the system this way "bleeding the beast," an intentional effort to bring down the U.S. government.

We're not talking here polygamy as in recent TV shows like "Big Love" or "Sister Wives" where they are educated consensual adults who chose this lifestyle. We're talking about 13 and 14 year old girls marrying men in their late 40s and older. You should read book "God's Brothel" by investigative journalist Andrea Moore-Emmett to learn more, like the case of Laura Chapman who was born and raised in the FLDS, in a household of 36 people, including four wives and 31 children; she was the 25th child born. Today, in her 40s, she's an anti-polygamy activist.

I wasn't talking about the FLDS. I was talking about mainstream Mormons. Yes, all the Mormons I've ever met have been salt of the earth people, and I like them.
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RE: Which denominations have you spotted on this forum? - by Catholic_Lady - August 14, 2017 at 10:25 am

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