“Hang-ups over Mormonism proved Romney’s undoing”
I swear to God, I am not knocking the Mormon religion AND I would have voted for Mitt in the general (and did vote for him in the caucus yesterday) **BUT**
I would be just as slow jumping on the band wagon of a Jehovahs Witness. People coming to my door, over and over, to sell their brand of Jesus even after I’ve told them over and over to not come back tend to piss me off.
I am not alone. In my AO the Mormons do this far more than the JW’s and frankly it’s a pain in the ass. I KNOW people that this activity annoys, and even angers. Church-going people. People that have told the missionaries OVER AND OVER, DO NOT COME BACK.
Still they come.
It puts the LDS in a bad light. People such as myself that might otherwise be “live and let live” develop a strong aversion to you. Less literate folks then hear “odd” things about the practices of the Mormon church and that is when you start hearing words such as “cult.”
Is it fair? Probably not. Is it understandable? Only if you are willing to admit that folks are annoyed equally by salesmen at the door even if it is their brand of Jesus that they are selling.
People that have told the missionaries OVER AND OVER, DO NOT COME BACK.
“I am not alone. In my AO the Mormons do this far more than the JW’s and frankly it’s a pain in the ass. I KNOW people that this activity annoys, and even angers. Church-going people. People that have told the missionaries OVER AND OVER, DO NOT COME BACK.
Still they come.”
That is my biggest beef as well.
Sure...there are the difference in beliefs - but you won’t find other churches sending their young adults out to the mormon homes just so they can bash their religion.
I did find a way to get them to stop coming to MY house though.
I found the missionary boys to be very poorly informed on early church history.
I zeroed in on that and pointed out that christianity had not died out - instead there was growth despite great persecustion by the emperors.
Those same christians left behind many writings.
It’s been about 2 yrs. since they’ve come back.
I used to see them every summer.