I wasn't raised to detest anyone of any religion or race. Curiously, when I was a little girl, we used to go on weekend drives as a family. We visited Nauvoo back in the late 40's or early 50's and the only reaction on the part of my parents was my father when I asked him what happened to the gold plates. He smiled and said something like, "Why an angel took them back to heaven." Later as a family we visited Salt Lake City, more as a historical learning experience, than as a spiritual quest.
In my genealogical research, I found out that a great grand uncle fell in with a Giles Cook who had Mormon connections and evidently left Mormonism. When the uncle and Giles Cook went west in the gold rush, they had to give wide berth to Salt Lake because I believe Giles Cook was an apostate and Mormons occasionally used violence against apostates.
I think some of the appeal of Mormonism, apart from their family values and clean living, is that they purport to answer apiritual questions about pre-existence and the hereafter that traditional forms of Christianity are content to leave unanswered.
It seems to me that Mormons add confusion to the mix of already confused Christianity and world religions and in the end, it isn't necessarily a good thing. Other countries are beginning to resent proselytizing by Mormons and other sects because it just exacerbates the confusion. If the other denominations weren't already so splintered, I doubt Mormonism and other sects would have taken hold in America.
Jesus warned that his religion would split families and he was right on.