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my dad served in the stake presidency, i certainly was the opposite of mormon-lite. my family has the food storage, 72 hour kits, CTR rings, tithing/fast offering stubs, quilts, 6 kids, merit badges, family home evenings, temple pictures on the wall, etc to prove it

my brother served an honorable mission, my brother and two sisters that are old enough to be married are married (ages 21,25,27), i got fast offerings, went to seminary, served the sacrament, spoke in church, i received my patriarchal blessing when i was 14 (which is something anti-mormon people don't talk about much but is easily one of the strangest practices from an outsider's perspective in all of mormondom imo). i didn't have many LDS friends so outside of young men's i didn't really go to many socials/dances though. but yea, i was pretty *in*


oh yea i went to general conference several times. i personally rose my right arm to the square to give my vote of confidence for Prophet Howard W. Hunter.

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You still haven't answered my question, but from your post, I can easily conclude that you aren't from Utah or the surrounding states mentioned in my earlier post. Just because your dad was stake president doesn't make you the "opposite" of "Mormon-Lite." It's the culture around you that makes the religion hard core and cultish, not necessarily the wacky teachings. When you have large numbers of Mormons in the same place (as in Utah, Idaho, California, Arizona, and in some cases Wyoming), you have a very different culture from Mormonism in say; Delaware...

Utah Mormons (and I use that term to describe more states than just Utah) are very different from your perception of them. I would invite you to actually spend a year in Utah and go join a ward to understand just how different it is here than in other places. Here you can see what Mormons WANT their religion to look like, not what it does look like outside of here. I have known hard line East Coast Republicans that have come here and ditched the party because of how frightening it was in this state (owned and operated by the Mormons here).

Honestly though, why would you want to go through this obfuscation gag with the faith of the Mormon church in the first place? Isn't the whole point of having a church at all to be free to worship what you want to? Or what they want to? Frankly, I'm more disappointed by the Mormon's inability to hold the line more than I am anything else. This is America, where you can have wacky religions and worship that way freely (and I can freely point and laugh). But the efforts to make Mormon doctrine seem "mainstream" in any way are absolutely disgusting.

By the way, the Mormon Jesus is different from the biblical Jesus. If for no other reason than the Mormon Jesus was the brother of Lucifer, which is not the case with the Christian one. A countless number of Mormon "prophets" [sic] also say that the Book of Mormon is more correct than the Bible, so there is very little denial possible in that point.




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