You don't pay attention much, do you? She was supposed to have got pregnant while they were engaged, but not yet married. Yes, I know there are simpler explanations than 'God did it', but you could at least get the mythology you're rejecting correct.
They are the craziest white people on the face of the earth. The only thing you can hope for is that they don't come after *you*. I married into a fundamentalist, polygamous family (they have some of the most beautiful women in the world), and have been around Saints much of my life. After dealing with Mormons, the Taliban is no trouble at all.
You'd have fun. It's very laidback and casual but the stickfighting is pretty intense.
;-) It's funny, but after seeing the SP episode I looked into the Mormons again (did a comparitive religion assignment in high school but I was pretty wasted at the time). SP was pretty much on the money for the whole thing.
From the Mormons I've met they are fairly normal folks, but 2nd hand stories make them out to be crazier then shithouse rats.
--Don-- The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Mormons hate you; actively. They treat one another pretty well, but gentiles are fair game all round. They take halachic/jesuitical 'logic' to new heights, and that's when they bother to mask their hatred at all. You kinda can't blame them- the early years must have been a horrorshow. They have a strange social organization- kinda like Amish, but with guns ;-) The whole 'survivalist/militia' thing comes out of the Mormon Lands. They've lived like that for a hundred and fifty years.
Something "reality shoes" have shown. The bullshit factor. The more someone talks about working hard, the less they work. Words are not actions. But some people as they weasle into machiavellian cushy jobs, can do nothing but propogandize with pep rally talk about "tradition", old world values ("...i swore on my fathers deathbed....", "my dad always used to say"). It may work on boyfriends, girlfriends, or blue collar workers, but not everyones stupid.
I used to work with a Mormon, and he let me borrow some books that explained the religion and their version of history. I was amazed that anyone could actually believe this stuff. Not so much the spiritual side, but the historical...
It makes just slightly less sense than scientology.
So, now you think it implausible that the Amerindians are the lost tribes of Israel? But I've seen video evidence that it's true. Well, OK, it was Blazing Saddles, but it was on video.
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