Now what’s the deal with this religion? The fact that the only valid candidate for the Republican party is this nut job is a little distressing.
From tweets and retweets by scientist and antitheist Richard Dawkins, I’ve learned that Romney was a Bishop for the mormon church.
The distressing parts are that this so called religion: Makes skin color a reason for god’s preference of people, ergo the Nephites are chosen over the Lamanites because the Nephites are white and the Lamanites are darker skin, which is also a curse meted out by “God”, “the curse of Cain”. However, if you have dark skin and convert to mormonism, your skin will become white, because it’s the preferred skin by god.
They don’t believe in swimming because the oceans belong to satan.
Brigham Young, one of their prophets, claims that there should be no racial mixing of whites and blacks, otherwise under “God’s” law it is death on the spot.
And there are many other buffooneries in this religion. Well hopefully the magic underpants will help save you.
However the creation of this bogusness does give us a sociological observation on how cults are developed and how people become duped into believing them.
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