• @BeefPiano
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    1231 year ago

    “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?”

    • @TehBamskiOP
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      311 year ago

      You know… now that you mention it… This does sound like a tactic of theirs.

      • @teuast
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        31 year ago

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

        • @CheesyGordita
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          81 year ago

          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

    • @macrocephalic
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      191 year ago

      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?

      • @surewhynotlem
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        91 year ago

        Actually, just explain the above. It’ll seep into their psyche.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

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

  • theodewere
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    1 year ago

    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…

    • @Windswepthydra
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      191 year ago

      That’s L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology, not Jospeh Smith of Mormonism.

          • theodewere
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            21 year ago

            oh for sure, nobody is really making anything up, but thank you for that link… great stuff…

      • @GhostCowboy76M
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        01 year ago

        Except Hubbard didn’t get a following worth hundreds of billions of USD 🤣🤣

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Considering that there are a lot of rich and famous scientologists, and that scientology members are required to donate a lot of money, I am sure scientology has raised hundreds of billions of dollars.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

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

    • @TehBamskiOP
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      31 year ago

      Oh man! I had forgotten about BaratsAndBereta YT channel. Talk about a YT time capsule.

  • @GhostCowboy76M
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    41 year ago

    Hahahahah oh my God thank you. This was just the chuckle I needed before my TBM family filled weekend.