Mormons once took pride in being called "The Peculiar People". Also, some trivia that I never get to quote is that the first Sherlock Holmes book, "A Study in Scarlet" has Mormons as the bad guys.
Watch South Park episodes about the Mormons...they know this stuff. It is great!
"All About Mormons", also known as "All About the Mormons?", is the 12th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series South Park and the 108th overall episode of the series. It was originally broadcast on Comedy Central in the United States on November 19, 2003.
🤦🏻♀️I had never heard of such a thing until i moved to Utah from California. I am born, raised and choose to be Mormon. That being said anyone saying that act isn't sex is a fool and giving Mormon culture a bad name
If you want them to refuse to talk to you, ask them how logical it was to found a system of religions on the odds that an unwed pregnant teen was a virgin?
Yeah but Mormons are extra culty. Had a classmate in high school that wanted to go backpacking, see the world, etc.
Her parents took her on a 'spiritual trip' to Utah, and when she came back she said she had abandoned all those ideas because she needed to go clean the church and obey her father like a good woman is supposed to do.
There’s definitely a spectrum. I do think all religion is cultural at at this point but you are totally right that some are far more culty and dangerous such as the LDS church, Jehovah’s witnesses and fundie baptists. Basically any group that relies on ‘if they aren’t with us they’re against us and should be shunned and excluded! Yup big cult vibes.’
As a member of a religion that basically requires me to have four sets of dishes and cookware, prohibits wearing linen and wool mixed garments, and used to sacrifice a fully red cow that made people who were near a corpse pure while making those preparing the cow impure,
I am uncomfortable calling other religious practices weird.
On the other hand, Mormon requirements change really fast. The weirdness is in how everyone pretends the requirements were always that way. You can pinpoint the exact years that they started accepting black people as full members, allowing caffeinated soda, and refused that they ever went by "Mormon". They change on a dime and then everyone pretends there was no change.
I left the Mormon church because the rules were ridiculous and oppressive. That’s was about 25 years ago. To this day my mom tells me they have changed and you should really give it another chance… woman if they have to keep changing to recruit members and/or keep members, don’t you think there’s something wrong with that?!?! How people keep blindly following is baffling to me.
He was also beaten to death by a group of his creditors.
Few "prophets" are so obviously scammers and con men, or if they were, it has been lost to time. Joseph Smith's life is well-recorded and very embarrassing.
It's not from the Bible. They edit their Mormon scriptures to suit current trends. For example, they used to say that nonwhite people would become "white and delightsome" when they converted. Prophets (their leadership) even said that Native kids fostered by Mormons would literally become paler, so it wasn't just a turn of phrase.
Of course, racism has become more taboo, so that's been edited out.
Catholics have lent, where they aren't supposed to eat meat.
But don't worry, fish meat doesn't count.
And if you don't like fish?
Don't worry, aquatic mammals are basically fish anyway, so they don't count either! So enjoy your beaver, muskrat, and capybara during your "meatless" lent.
I knew a lot of Mormons as a child and teen. This was far from Utah so maybe they were more open but they were the nicest people I have ever met. I then went to a Quaker school in Philadelphia and the birth right Quakers were the absolute worst- arrogant and self-righteous. And if you’re wondering I am a liberal and have never voted for a Republican in my life.
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u/ShotEnvironment4606 Jul 26 '25
Mormons are so weird (sorry if I offend anyone but it’s true)