Q: Why did thousands of people in General Conference erupt into giggles?
A: Because a general authority said something that wasn't funny.
- “A prophet will never lead you astray” – a prophet.
- Whispering a testimony into a little kids ear who then repeats it word for word isn’t brainwashing…it’s cute.
- If other religions have large, ornate buildings it’s to be seen of men (great & spacious buildings) but if Mormon Temples are unbelievably expensive & opulent it’s a way to give God the very best.
- Word for word prayers are vain repetitions unless it’s a Mormon ordinance prayer in which case it’s extremely sacred.
- Non-Mormons get rich from Satan but Mormons get rich from obedience to God.
- Praying on the street corner to be seen by men is evil but broadcasting your prayers worldwide from general conference is God-approved.
- Mormons don’t display silly idols (like the cross); instead, they put a giant gold statue of a man (who's not Christ) on top of their most important buildings.
- Mormons believe that men will be punished for their own sins & not for Adam’s transgression – unless you’re a righteous kid whose parents are homosexual, in which case you can’t be baptized & receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to be a constant companion to help guide you through your most formative years.
- Tattoos are disrespectful to your bodies (which are “temples”) while actual LDS temples are covered in all manner of carvings, markings, symbols, & custom designs.
- “God doesn’t need your money; you need to give God your money” –says every profitable cult leader.
- Salvation is not Free in the Mormon Church, it costs 10% of your income.
- If you gave your 10% tithing to real people who are actually starving, then you don’t qualify for a Temple Recommend.
- If a prophet lies or makes a mistake then in that moment he is just a man who can make a mistake like any of us (even if that mistake results in decades of racism).
- When Mormons “bear their testimony” to non-members they think that the following silence is a spiritual experience but really it’s just super awkward.
- “A testimony if found in the bearing of it” is a great way to get people to lie & then feel too embarrassed to admit they lied…are they all lying?
- God launched a huge campaign to “meet the Mormons” & “I’m a Mormon” but all the sudden God had second thoughts & now demands that we’re no longer to be called “Mormons”.
- Likewise, God really liked it when women veiled their faces in the temple but just a couple months ago decided that he really doesn’t like that now.
- Garments should be worn night & day unless you’re on the BYU women’s volleyball team; then God understands that the “ox is in the mire”.
- Don’t add to the Bible, unless you’re the Mormon church that ads whatever they want.
- The LDS church fired all the poor janitors who cleaned the chapels & pay seminary teachers poorly while spending (billions?) on church buildings & property acquisitions.
- If people leave the church it’s because they’re offended, love to sin, tricked by Satan, etc, but it’s never because they found out the church is not what they say they are (i.e. God’s only true church).
- If all these men are actual “prophets” then why don’t they ever give any meaningful prophecy.
- After googling “symptoms of a cult” & Mormonism has most all of those symptoms then it still must not be a cult, right?
- The Mormon church cares a lot about what your clothing choices are even though man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart. In fact, because the LDS church is comprised of human beings who can only use their physical senses to judge you (eyes to see your clothing, ears to hear your words, & pencils to make records of it), then the church is run entirely off the antithesis of how God would perceive & judge people.
- Mother Teresa cannot enter into the highest level of heaven until she becomes Mormon & marries a Mormon Man.
- “I the Lord am bound” now when ye do what I say, but when ye do what a couple of old men say.
- The Book of Mormon says that Christ is the only gatekeeper—except in the Mormon church they added a bunch of gates that aren’t from Christ.
- LDS women today are what LDS black men were before 1978 = different & unequal to the LDS white men.
- Only certain musical instruments are acceptable to God during Church service; Let’s just say that the piano has a special place in God’s heart. Mormons love the “family unit” but only if it’s a Mormon family;
- if any member is inactive, less active, or ex then the church inserts a wedge of sorrow, pain, feat, & sometimes divorce⁄abandonment. They destroy just as many families as they “save”.
- Total sexual suppression & no sex-ed creates the problems they’re trying to avoid; an unhealthy obsession with sex &⁄or false body image.
- You mustn’t disagree with a bishop even if he’s a jerk because that would by murmuring.
- If all church callings are from God then why do most Sunday School teachers have no teaching skills & waste everyone’s time but the wad clerks are always the smartest nerds?
- Children who were extra valiant in the premortal fight against Satan are blessed to be mentally handicapped, so Satan can’t fight them anymore. Is it then good or bad when scientists find cures for those illnesses?
- You’re not supposed to (or extremely conditioned to be fearful to) read any “anti Mormon” literature (which is literally anything written by a non mormon that’s not favorable even if it’s true). This means that you only read & learn about the church from the church itself. Can you say candy coated?
- The only way to break cycles of poverty in Africa is for the Africans to give their money to the LDS church.
- Christ overturned the people accepting money in the temple but Mormons also accept money in their temples to “rent” clothes.
- The final promise that you make with “God” in the temple is to give your life if He (the church) asks you to. This isn’t a cult thing at all.
- If the church is God & God is the church, then why are there so many epic—decades long screw ups?
- You mean that the Holy God of Israel,, the Perfect Christ Himself who was the embodiment of Pure LOVE is the author of this organization that’s riddled with historical atrocities, multiple doctrinal flip flops, a struggling membership despite the best missionary⁄sales training in the world, (literally hundreds of thousands of members leaving in the last couple years), etc, etc. Simple thought, maybe God & the Church are not the same thing.
- The church certainly can’t be a bunch of men who hijacked Christ’s teachings from the bible, added to them to make them “unique” & therefore the only true interpretations (like (cough *cough) all the other “Christian churches” who also receive a witness from the holy ghost?) isn’t it super convenient for them that they can hold your salvation in limbo is you don’t do whatever they say?
- The scriptures teach that we should learn milk before meat but everytime the church taught “meat” (doctrines of salvation, etc.) they would say embarrassing stuff that wasn’t true & later denied. So now the approach is to teach milk before milk & then follow that down with a tall glass of milk.
For those who read this & feel upset, here’s a couple things that will help.
- If you can find any grammatical errors in this then that’s a great way to discount the whole message
- You can take all these viewpoints & tuck them away with all the other “anti-mormon” things that are really scary
- You can assume that my motive is to “fight against the kingdom of God” & not to sincerely help members consider that their religion might have some good in it (as do most religions) but that Christ’s original message has been “mingled with the philosophies of men” to sustain a multi-billion dollar organization
- You can assume that I wasn’t a lifelong member who was extremely “successful” on my mission & who hasn’t heard or read all the Mormon insights that you know about & that I didn’t also “know with every fiber of my being” from the feelings of the Holy Ghost that the church was true just like you might now think that you know.
- You can pretend that all the pain, suffering, suicides, false judgements, micromanagement, depression, anxiety, chronic guilt, etc. that is directly caused by Mormon theology doesn’t exist or that it’s just a couple people wrongly mis-interpreting the doctrine & not the church’s fault…because who would be that sick to perpetuate all these emotional crimes against their fellow man? Certainly not God’s ONLY TRUE church
- You can easily come up with an LDS rebuttal for everything & assume that since I didn’t make this 10 times longer to shut down the rebuttals that I must not be able to
- You can think that since this is made anonymously then it somehow delegitimizes its importance.