“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?”
You know... now that you mention it... This does sound like a tactic of theirs.
pretty sure several exmormons on the internet have either proposed or confirmed that this is something they're going for
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?
Actually, just explain the above. It'll seep into their psyche.
I love seeing Exmo content pop up on Lemmy, damn! Mission shit is brutal, but they've gotta keep the commitment-cycle churning.
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..
That's L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology, not Jospeh Smith of Mormonism.
peas in a pod, but Hubbard wasn't as orignial
Except Hubbard didn’t get a following worth hundreds of billions of USD 🤣🤣
Poor missionaries. Teenagers are far too young to be involved in something like this. Even the victims are perpetrators in Mormonism
“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?”
You know... now that you mention it... This does sound like a tactic of theirs.
pretty sure several exmormons on the internet have either proposed or confirmed that this is something they're going for
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?
Actually, just explain the above. It'll seep into their psyche.