Get them while they are young

[_Buffalo]

So the absurdity of anti-Mormonism can be indoctrinated at a very young age? Old news.

I was going to show my kids The God Makers film but the funniest thing has happened. They just don't give a crap about religion.

Indeed. You have to shove religion down kids' throats constantly for it to take hold. The default state is apatheism about Mormonism and every other religion.

[_KevinSim]

Indeed. You have to shove religion down kids' throats constantly for it to take hold. The default state is apatheism about Mormonism and every other religion.

I think the more likely explanation is that different personalities are receptive to different things. My Sociology of Religion professor at the University of Washington told a story about an unbelieving colleague and his wife who decided to raise their daughter without any exposure to any faith whatsoever, and see what happened. They neglected to cut off her contact with the television. In the end she formulated her own deity that she called "Jesus Santa Claus." So apathy to every religion isn't the default state for every child.

[_Buffalo]

Indeed. You have to shove religion down kids' throats constantly for it to take hold. The default state is apatheism about Mormonism and every other religion.

I think the more likely explanation is that different personalities are receptive to different things. My Sociology of Religion professor at the University of Washington told a story about an unbelieving colleague and his wife who decided to raise their daughter without any exposure to any faith whatsoever, and see what happened. They neglected to cut off her contact with the television. In the end she formulated her own deity that she called "Jesus Santa Claus." So apathy to every religion isn't the default state for every child.

I think faith is in some ways natural, but she created her own faith from the faith habitat around her. She didn't start following Lutheranism, and if you had, you can bet a peer would have influenced it (a peer raised Lutheran).

[_KevinSim]

Absolutely revolting, and yet I can provide hundreds - literally - hundreds and hundreds - of this exact story through Ex-Mormons. I've got too many to count on the
Mormon Curtain to start. More can be found on RFM and throughout recovery circles.

Mormonism is truly sickening.

I think the idea is that the LDS Church sort of hypnotizes children and they never escape the trance, never wake up from the spell of hypnotism they're under.

But the truth of the matter is that when young Latter-day Saints hit those turbulent teenage years they become as rebellious as anybody else, and begin asking their leaders how they can know the things that the LDS Church teaches them are true. When they hit age 14 they start attending the LDS Seminary Program, where they're given the answer to that question. If they really want to know if the LDS Church is inspired of God, they should ask God Himself if it is inspired by Him, and God will tell them. That makes sense to all the teenagers that really do want to know (it made sense to me), they ask God if He really did inspire the LDS Church, and the answers they get form the foundations of their individual theologies.

Infymus, what's sickening about that?