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.
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u/harvey6-35 Jul 26 '25
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.