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To: Rashputin
Well, there's all kinds of Mormons.

Try as the cult could to "cookie cutter" them all, they haven't been able.

28 posted on 12/12/2011 11:41:58 AM PST by Colofornian (JoePologists: Those who defend the personality cults of Joe Smith and Joe Paterno)
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To: Colofornian
"Try as the cult could to "cookie cutter" them all, they haven't been able."

Interesting. I'd say, based on the little experience I have with Mormons, that they do all manage to have a screw loose somewhere. One thing they get overly hung up on or hung up on not being hung up on. It's either that the complete isolation from non-Cult members groups like the Branch Davidians or Aum Shinrikyo rely on makes the process they use less reliable from their point of view, or that enough of them don't realize that they're supposed to be keeping one another in line the way some groups do.

Then again, I've seen Fundamentalist high schools where they tried to keep tabs on everyone all the time and it just served to make more of them rebellious. Do you have any idea what percentage of them are born into Mormonism as opposed to converting to Mormonism from something else or from no faith at all?

38 posted on 12/12/2011 12:13:15 PM PST by Rashputin (Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
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