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This is silly. Mormonism is mainstream <u>in certain parts of the country</u>.

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Branch Davidians were mainstream inside of the compound, what is your point?

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My point has been made:
"The simple fact is that people have a high propensity to believe what the community they were raised in believes."


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There is absolutely no reason to make a big distinction between it and other Christian sects

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Actually there are lots of reasons to do just this. IWLOE.

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IWLOE?


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by saying things like "it's less mainstream, therefore it's a cult, therefore people who practice it are nuttier on average, because why else would they join a cult?"

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Thankfully I didn't say any of this.

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What is your reasoning then?


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The simple fact is that people have a high propensity to believe what the community they were raised in believes

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Agreed! The fact that something becomes mainstream in a community doesn't stop it from being cult-ish to the rest of us.

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Yes. Only on an intuitive level, though. It shouldn't say anything about the rationality or intelligence of those coming out of such communities as opposed to those coming out of communities practicing religions that are mainstream to the country as a whole.


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I give kudos to anyone who manages to break out of that mold, but as far as the candidates go I don't see that any of them have done that.

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Huh? What candidates?

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There was another thread in which someone was attacking Romney for being a Mormon. I confused the two. My bad.