Chris, I too was saved from the mormon cult after being brought up in it, only 5 or so years ago.
You are wrong, based on lack of personal experience, to put the values of what you know of different Christian demoninations onto mormonism. It is in a wholly different class. It is a brainwashing, all controlling, all taking, mind-numbing CULT. They do not allow you your own time, possession, speech, family or even thoughts.
God is not a bureaucrat, he wants our hearts. God has used the different denominations in the same way he used the different Apostles. Aside from obvious charlatans, each whith their own emphasis, each for the benefit of their own types of people. God is not a bureaucrat sitting up there with a checklist as the mormons teach, he wants our hearts.
Mormonism is based on fraud. The second FLDS/LDS "prophet" Brigham Young claimed that Jospeh Smith's re-translation of the bible was a fraud and made all the members be rebaptized into his breakaway sect.
Young taught that mormons were not Christians.
Young taught that they were the saviors of the earth.
Young taught that Christ was nto born of a virgin.
Young taught that Jesus was a polygamist.
Young and Smith both taught the cult would take over national government someday, then it would be "As the days of mohammed, Joseph Smith or the sword." They almost just won control over a second third of the federal government.
Nowadays mormons try to cover all of this up and claim they are just mainstream Christians.
They are free to believe what they want, but we are commanded as Christians to avoid the "leaven of the Pharisees". We are also commanded to have nothing to do with the works of darkness, "but rather expose them".
“You are wrong, based on lack of personal experience, to put the values of what you know of different Christian demoninations onto mormonism. It is in a wholly different class. It is a brainwashing, all controlling, all taking, mind-numbing CULT. They do not allow you your own time, possession, speech, family or even thoughts.”
If you do believe in or agree with their belief system and way of life, then don’t join it...
All religions are very similar to what you have described in some ways.
They are essentially follow our path and only our path and you shall be rewarded in the afterlife for those efforts.
I’m sorry, but I see religion as a form of mass mind control. I certainly do not see it as something that God created. Man created it for his own purposes.