A Point About The Less Mainstream Religions

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It sounds like this is turning into you defending Mormomnism from me, which I do not feel like getting into and is drifting from the point of the thread.

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Mormonism is an example that was brought up and I'm just responding. If you'd like to bring up a different example that'd be fine.


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So are you saying that if I grew up in a Mormon area and became a Mormon, this requires me to be "more susceptible to cults" than if I grew up in a protestant area and became a protestant?

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No, that is not what I am saying at all.

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Then you're saying...?


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Maybe, but Mormonism is large enough and close enough to "normal Christianity" that I don't see this applying.

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Sorry, but this is not a very good argument for anything. Mormonism's size and how close *you* think the beliefs run are not evidence of anything.

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I didn't realize we were talking hard evidence. Is there a study you'd like to share? Otherwise I could say the same to you. I am merely responding to intuitive speculations with intuitive speculations of my own.


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If you're a Mormon and you look at all the different religions and sects stemming from Abraham, I don't think your own religion stands out as being abnormal. Also if you continue to live in Mormon heavy communities your beliefs would still not be "far away from normal".

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Also not a very good argument.

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Because...?

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For starters, I would feel weird voting for someone whose family was the head of an officially racist organization for so many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacks_...ter-day_Saints

At least they time their "revelations" better and don't wait around for thousands of years to apologize like the Pope does.

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Different topic. Different topic. I will say again "my bad".