It is sweet of you to say nice things about people you’ve known.
i don’t know much about Mormonism, but I don’t think they ever stoned anyone or beheaded people, but I do have the impression there was a good deal of corruption back in the day.
OK, I have that impression from reading “A Study in Scarlett” the first Sherlock Holmes book, so it’s probably a little hyperbolic.
I know that my young daughter and I used to take quite a long bus ride home every day. The only time anyone ever got up to give us seats were two Mormon missionary guys. This was in Jersey City.
How intelligent people could believe in a religion founded by a man with Smith's history or gullibly accept the whole Golden Book, Angel Moroni (some jokes just write themselves), Lost Hebrew Tribes in America, stone and top hat translation method, and the book that resulted is beyond me. But as with the Global Warming zombies there's just no accounting for people's willingness to ignore their common senses and believe utterly in utter nonsense. But so long as they aren't trying to forcibly impose those beliefs on me by way of a knife to the throat or the imposition of stupid regulations against my keeping mercury free lights on and my home warm in the winter then I've got no real problem with them.
When they try to imposed their own theocracy or Gaia-ocracy it's a different story.
I think that's something to do with Jersey.
One day a few years back I was traveling from Jersey to Florida. Old women got on the full bus. I was the only one who offered her my seat.
On the shuttle bus in Tampa, an old woman got on the full bus. Just about every man in the bus stood up to offer her a seat.