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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Our church elders want us to create a confrontational situation so we’ll view the outside world as hostile and see the church as the only safe community. Would you like to learn more?”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know... now that you mention it... This does sound like a tactic of theirs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pretty sure several exmormons on the internet have either proposed or confirmed that this is something they're going for

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, either the culture and people are really receptive and they convert a lot of new tithe payers, or it’s more heated and confrontational and the missionaries are further entrenched into the church. Source: was Mormon missionary for a year before I almost killed myself because of all that bullshit… so I guess it doesn’t always work out that way. Lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit, this never occurred to me! So I should politely ask them if they'd like to sin instead of telling them to go fuck themselves?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Actually, just explain the above. It'll seep into their psyche.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I love seeing Exmo content pop up on Lemmy, damn! Mission shit is brutal, but they've gotta keep the commitment-cycle churning.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

their founder deserves a hell of a lot more credit than he gets for being a pioneer of Science Fiction / Fantasy writing.. dude practically invented the genre..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology, not Jospeh Smith of Mormonism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

peas in a pod, but Hubbard wasn't as orignial

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither was Smith. He plagiarized a lot of the BoM from View of the Hebrews.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh for sure, nobody is really making anything up, but thank you for that link.. great stuff..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except Hubbard didn’t get a following worth hundreds of billions of USD 🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Considering that there are a lot of rich and famous scientologists, and that scientology members are required to donate a lot of money, I am sure scientology has raised hundreds of billions of dollars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Poor missionaries. Teenagers are far too young to be involved in something like this. Even the victims are perpetrators in Mormonism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man! I had forgotten about BaratsAndBereta YT channel. Talk about a YT time capsule.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hahahahah oh my God thank you. This was just the chuckle I needed before my TBM family filled weekend.