Pray for the community in /lds/, or the Mormons

Utahn here. This is the Mormon capital pretty much, but I'm not a Mormon. I have grown up in this state surrounded by them, so I can confirm and say that these guys are more than often psychologically hurt . I envy their community, desires to start families and such, but to put it in light term, I can't believe their words at all.

That being said, nearly 80 percent of the people I've met in my state who are athiests, non-religious, pagan, or some mascara covered modern spiritual belief, in this state have grown up in a Mormon family, unhappy. They almost always say "I love spirituality but despise religion," which is depressing to me. I noted how it's as if Mormon kids on their phase-stage embrace and love the luciferian type of life. Luckily, I grew up in a more secular household, and ended up more religious than both my father (ex-catholic) and my mother (ex-mormon), which could be why I'm so open to religion and Christ.

Anyways, I notice that Mormonism tears at people's faith, and trust in God, once they leave the church, and go down a path of the modern Western American who completely indulges their life in materialism, sex, and cringe worthy habits. Of course there's that 20 percent who become religious in a "rock Jesus" church sense. And a lot of these people, when they're done with the shit carosel, become the "go to church once every Easter and Christmas-eve" type, which is just a why bother in my opinion.

I don't know how some of these people fall so hard out from the church, but it almost ALWAYS seems to be from Mormon families. Although I notice the same in Catholicism, baptists, but it seems EXTRA bad with the Mormons.

I ALSO got to point out a lot of these people who stay in the church are REALLY MISERABLE. You can see it in their eyes. Almost all of the Protestant converts of Mormons I've met say the same thing: "I felt I wasn't good enough for God and hated myself for that." It's honestly heartbreaking to me.

So yeah, I pray for Mormons, and their children especially.

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This, it's always what i run into myself online, and the few times Irl. And it's always like you said from Mormonism, in your case over there, or Generic, low hanging fruit protestantism, that offers no real basis in theology. Personally when i started looking for the truth questioning my beliefs, and looking for what was true, i ended up at orthodoxy. Im still very new, so im not gona harp on that part to much, but you're right it's always these unfulfilling faiths that i notice people fall out with. And that's where you usually end up with these edge lords later on asking *If god Good, why he do bad?* Etc. And it's like they're dying, that, they're just dying for good theology, but they don't even know it's out there. I know man there's a lot of that going on out there, but just gotta inform people spread the word.

low effort, 2/10

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Dangers of Mormonism:
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It seems like Mormonism creates people who feel trapped. There's a very large focus on FEELINGS within the Mormon community from what I've seen. That their conviction comes from a feeling, and lacking that feeling is something that nobody wants to admit to. Whereas, in any more theologically serious faith (whether it be the RCC, EO, Lutherans, etc), while feelings are good, it doesn't matter as much if you aren't "feeling it" any given Sunday. The Sanctus is still the Sanctus whether I'm feeling it or not, and I'm still singing it. It's something my gf, a Mormon, brings up often. She doesn't like the church or a lot of the things she do, but she can't get the feeling she has there anywhere else. I've taken her to Divine Service (high church Lutheran term for Mass) a couple of times, and she told me that there's so much "we're not worthy" and begging for mercy, and that while that's good, God is supposed to be our Father and she doesn't feel it there. It's very much a feelings thing for a lot of them. That's why presenting them with theological contradictions or their church turning back on its teachings (polygamy, Adam-God, etc) often doesn't work.

I was actually considering becoming Orthodox or Catholic funny enough. I'm very new myself around here, so it'll be a while before I decide which one.

It started as a D&C thing in Zig Forums Was spammed on pretty much every thread, and people were confused. Eventually it caught on, ironically, probably by reddit newfags who forced the meme.