• BeefPiano@lemmy.world
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    “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?”

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

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          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

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      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?

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

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    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…

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