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Mormon Persecution Complex
by Spike Norton
I am so sick of Mormons saying that they are being persecuted, when in fact they are the ones who are persecuting others.
Just because we encourage people to break into their churches, rip down all their art, spray paint hateful messages on the walls, and destroy their furniture doesn't mean that they are being persecuted...
And I know they like to talk about how Governor Boggs of Missouri in the 1830s issued an extermination order against them, or how the leaders of the church were illegally torn away from their wives and children and thrown into dungeons with little or no food for months - all without any trial, helpless while their people lost almost all their possessions and fled across the state in the dead of winter - but that isn't real persecution...
Real persecution is what their church does. It's basically abuse to say "please come help clean our church buildings." They literally tear families apart with their doctrine of "families can be together forever." I am still traumatized by their "prophet" telling me "try to be a little kinder" and "Jesus loves you."
Of course, the worst persecution comes in the form of what they tell people in the LGBTQIA7&*+ community. Just because they live their lives differently, they tell them they should repent... Can you believe it? And maybe it would be different if they said that to people who were adulterers or thieves or liars...
Wait, what do you mean they ask them to repent too?
How dare you defend them! You're minimizing my trauma! Stop persecuting me!
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