You can’t even visit a mormon church if you aren’t mormon.
They aren’t called churches, they are called Stakes.
Inside, they are more like activity buildings that churches.
Can you visit? Sure. Do they like your money? Sure do.
But they are kinda like Moslems. If you know a few they are very nice. When in the majority, some of the nastiest people you will ever meet. I know this from experience.
“If you know a few they are very nice. When in the majority, some of the nastiest people you will ever meet. I know this from experience.”
Ditto. F’n ruthless. Like Romney, they forced people and many small businesses out of work. Contracts mean NOTHING.
You can certainly visit a mormon church if you're non-mormon...they will pick you up, they will drag you there, lol...that's the point Converts, converts, converts, the mormon cult eats, breathes and sleeps converts.
The individual churches are wards, a group of wards comprises a stake. Once a church gets large, they always have a services area, reception area, and classrooms...and then they try to add lots of multipurpose rooms and a basketball court...anything to bring neighborhood kids in, and give mormon kids a place to play where they associate with other mormon kids and any gentile friends they bring along, they are playing under supervision the whole time. The bishop will always announce to one man and one woman that they have a "calling" to be active in boy and girl scouts, again as gentiles look for local scouting their kids play with mormon kids, and the outreach begins. Mormons will drop by the house, invite you to church dinners, and everything has a worship service attached. When I was in Scouts they had a youth program for older mormon teens, and the scouts would be encouraged to join in. Lately I've heard of a lot of mormon women that if they can't find a mormon man, they're willing to date a single parent father, because it's so much easier to indoctrinate the child, and the father follows, if he doesn't want to fight a brainwashed child in a custody battle. Just my word for it, but I've seen it several times. Anyway...
Mormons are all kinds of people. Every one a person caught in a weak or needy phase of life where the unconditional acceptance of an isolated group became important, and then they had to learn how to accept a different view of people outside their isolated group. When you shake hands with a mormon, you're shaking hands with a nice guy who has a queer religion. When he shakes hands with you, he's a potential god who could get closer to his temple recommend if he gives this potential convert the right impression. Much like a politician, but a politician that believes the electorate are, basically, damned. So, that's where the saccharine is...they think the nice exteruor is a honey trap to someone who might down the road go lds...but it comes off as strange or fake, because the person being so sweet is the final repositor of mormon celestial truth looking at a dung beetle. But they want to give the dung beetle the right impression. So to speak.
(ex-mormon, born into the cult)