Mormons are.....

[valis]

Complete the sentence. I've never met them...

[Shoeempress]

1. annoying when they show up at your door

[Dave Reynolds]

2. very spiffy in their skinny black ties and white shirts on bikes.

[ohiosmith]

3. typically very polite, considerate, hard working and and generous people.

[yvr girl]

4. are people too.

Many of them live in Utah, but not all of them.

[WI_DEM]

5. as unpredictable as any other group of people.

I've known some very nice Mormons and we have even had a few Mormons on DU. Like any other religious group there are conservatives, moderates and even liberals (though I agree that the number of liberals are not overly high). Also I believe I read somewhere that this religion is the fastest rising one in the United States.

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. just like every other religion...

there are some good ones like Harry Reid and some bad ones like bible thumping theocrats. I am trying to stop painting people with a broad brush, and let me tell you it is hard work!

[bridgit]

7. believers...

[Momgonepostal]

8. what people who are members of my church are called.

I'm not sure where you are trying to go with this thread...

[JVS]

9. kind of like a mirror image to the Jehovah's witnesses

They both come door to door, but Mormons (or at least Mormon culture)seems to view military service and civic participation favorably, while Witnesses are unwilling to fly a flag, be in the military, and also frown on voting.

[WI_DEM]

15. hmm, interesting

that doesn't sound like many Mormons I have known. Of course, I agree about door to door and also serving as a missionary for a period of time, but the ones I've known (and I admit I've not known more than four or five) were on the whole anti-war and were working to change some of the old fashioned ideals of their church.

[Catch22Dem]

10. Just as nutty as every other religion ever conceived.

:evilgrin:

[Wapsie B]

11. non-Christians, a gutter religion by hardline fundamentalists.

Which is why it still floors me that they think they've got a home in the gop with the snake-lickers.

[ohiosmith]

14. What do you mean non-Christians?

[Wapsie B]

19. non-Christians in the eyes of the conservative fundies.

The conservative protestant groups have lambasted Mormons for years.

[WI_DEM]

16. I think any sort of religious intolerance is something Democrats

should be against. I think we should respect all religions as well as people who are not religious at all.

[Wapsie B]

21. Yes we should.

I've got relatives who are Mormons. Very nice people.

[lady lib]

12. members of the same church as Harry Reid.

Mormons are also very numerous here in my town of Mesa, AZ. I don't agree with their politics - since the majority of them are now Republicans - but they're just about the nicest people you'll ever meet and most of them do a fantastic job of raising their kids.

[Guy Fawkes]

13. sometimes very nice, liberal people.

[LeftyMom]

17. fertile

Teachers loved the mormon families at my elementary school because they had those full sized vans to drive thier big families around so it only took three or four parent volunteers to drive the whole class.

[stinkeefresh]

18. members of one of the most...

...carefully designed religions on earth.

One example- take all teenage boys away from thier homes for two full years, allowing 4 phone calls home TOTAL in that time, put them in a foreign country with nothing to cling to except the church and make them defend the church's teaching all day every day. (oh, and rotate thier partner every 3 months, so they don't get too "friendly")

They'll come home Mormon to the core.

When I realized that the non-optional (for boys) missionary work was designed more as a stop-loss system than a conversion system, I realized just how well designed they are.

Know of any other religions with a brilliant strategy to keep from losing a huge chunk of thier kids when they hit 18?

No wonder they're growing so fast.

On edit: but for the record, I know and care about many Mormons. Great folks, in my experience. But I still think they belong to a very carefully designed "faith".

[MuseRider]

25. They do not make them all

go. I have a friend who was bishop in my church (when I was Mormon) who had a son who just could not cut it and he came home. No problem. Girls go too.

It is freaky.

[JVS]

26. From what I've heard, being sent on mission was not mandatory but...

rather a priviledge that would open up new doors for a young man within Mormon society. Parents would want their daughters to marry them over non-mission suitors, job opportunities would be more open to them, etc.

[stinkeefresh]

35. bingo

You don't HAVE to go... but...

[JVS]

37. There's the other side of the coin, "you don't get to go"

[HEyHEY]

20. Damn good in the sack once they defect

[JVS]

28. Do tell!

[HEyHEY]

31. A gentleman never tells

Besides, I promised Canuckamok I would stop posting about his Mom.

[JVS]

32. But you are no gentleman, so it's ok to spill it!

[HEyHEY]

34. It's between me, her, her best friend, and the police

[MuseRider]

36. WoooooHooooooo!

:woohoo:

[MrScorpio]

22. Noisy neighbors

Very noisy

[xultar]

23. conservative but they are good people. Just like all religions there

are good and bad despite the hype.

Meet some Mormons and experience for yourself.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. who cares

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. ...yet another variant of Christianity that likes to proselytize.

And for that, they're annoying.

[JVS]

29. What variant doesn't?

How would that variant justify its lack of missionary work with Christ's command to "go forth and baptize, making disciples of all nations"?

[stinkeefresh]

33. Quakers don't.

...for the record.

[Burma Jones]

30. Hiding in the shrubbery, waiting to kill the Jehovah's Witnesses

I swear, I put repellant down, I urinated all over the bushes, but still they come back. Now, I'm going to have to clean up all that cultish blood and guts...........

[fleabert]

38. as varied and different as any other group of people...

I had drinks with one yesterday! She calls herself a 'Jack-Mormon', hadn't heard of that before, but whatever she wants to be called is fine with me.

[Moderator]

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