Cut hours, added a shit ton more food to make, switched paychecks from every week twice a month, generally fucked up my routine, and of course all with no pay raise. It’s on sight frog-no-pretext

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      As someone who was raised Mormon, fully agree. The Book Of Mormon is like if evangelicals got to write their own bible fan fiction. BoM specifically states that people with darker skin were cursed by God. Being against race mixing is still alive and well in the church.

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        Reminiscing about being born and raised by my mixed race parents happily enough. I had to learn gradually as an adult how people have (strong) opinions about the race of their partner. And then another layer of brain worms, caring about the race of the partner of people they don’t even know.

        For what it’s worth, I’ve been friends with Mormons who were cool and an ex Mormon who fucking owns.

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        I disagree, they share a lot more with Jewish extremist groups than they do with evangelicals. Insular, extremely hierarchical, rules based. Evangelicals are 100% id, whereas mormons and jewish extremists are a lot more pseudo-rationalists who could recite you 500 pages of “theory” about their madeup bullshit.

        mormons in their own internal doctrine also directly compare themselves to the Israelites, name themselves after the Tribes of Israel in the temple and believe they are a chosen, peculiar people who are destined to be persecuted and outside of mainstream society, much like Jewish extremists do. Mormons explicitly reject a bunch of christianity and embrace a neo-Jewish eschatology

        I remember hearing Mormons jokingly saying that if the LDS church isn’t true, then it’s Judaism that’s true instead. Like in a common Mormon worldview, Jews are the 2nd closest to “getting it”. Mormons take an almost Islam or Jewish approach to Christ as well, rejecting the trinity, rejecting that Christ is God and instead embracing a godhead where Christ is the literal son of God (like all humans are children of god) and an entirely separate being, and the individual of Jesus was just the eldest and most righteous of God’s children.

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                  I’d feel different if this weren’t more grass roots than that. The Mormons who become feds are fully sold on being feds, there is no stutter in what they understand. Mormons don’t believe they’re being evil, they think they’re the good ones even though their beliefs are racist through and through.

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            Evangelicals are more widespread, but Mormons have extraordinarily explicit racism and fascism in the book far beyond any abrahamic religion. Part of being Mormon is accepting that brown people were literally cursed by God, it’s what they believe the mark of Cain is. Or how it is an inherently violent religion, specifically laying out a prophecy where a special guy comes back and united the Mormons under the war banner of heaven. Like I’d wager there are more Messiah delusions amongst Mormons than any other religion, it really is that bad. It’s why everybody has a compound

            BoM is a guidebook to create a patriarchal ethnostate in no uncertain terms. It is an attempt at wiping indigenous history as well. Abrahamic religion is broken at its core, but nowhere near as broken as Mormons. There are so many horribly bigoted things you have to accept as fact to be a Mormon.