Religious Question

[Irving]

I guess it depends how closely you follow the literature then. Mormonism is based on Christianity isn't it? They believe in Jesus, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and then their own, later scriptures. I stopped allowing myself to be taken to church after sitting through a lecture telling me that I was a sinner just because I existed. I thought it felt pretty cultish. Anyone who follows anything exactly like the book, is going to be viewed as "cultish" by people who don't. That goes for tax collectors who won't give you any leeway of the tax law, and that HR lady at work who will chew your ass out and send you home if your skirt comes above your knees.

I just find it interesting that most non-religious people think that ALL religious practices are "cultish;" then you have religious people who are comfortable to a point, but still view others' practices as "cultish" when it's all the same type of stuff, only in a different shade. Tell me that sacrificing 12 yearling bulls, 12 lambs, and 36 cattle isn't "cultish."

*I hope you don't take this as an attack on you Cowboy, because it isn't. Your comment was just perfect material for me to expand my point.

[iamhunter]

@stuart

I dated a mormon girl for about two months.

Many of their practices are VERY different from Christianity, and many of their beliefs and hidden practices would not be looked on favorably in a public light.

Now, I must qualify, that I do not think all mormon churches are like this, but the one I had experience with definitely had some weird things going on, and, in my eyes, some less than acceptable beliefs.