Top 10 creepiest things about the church

[_Darth J]

A very visible amount of anonymous people on internet message boards obsessed with the sexual activities of church members.

A very visible amount of local and general LDS leaders obsessed with the sexual activities of church members.

[_sock puppet]

A very visible amount of anonymous people on internet message boards obsessed with the sexual activities of church members.

Let me see if I have this right: we were taught our whole lives to feel guilt and shame over sexual feelings and actions, so we suppressed them or lived with terrible guilt (or like me, we did both). We grow up and recognize that these teachings were damaging and warped our view of sexuality, so we occasionally talk about this subject with other people who understand what we've been through.

And for that, you call us "obsessed." Awesome.

The Mormon most obsessed with masturbation is BKP, hands down--or at least that's where he wants everyone's.

[_Buffalo]

Another one I forgot, related to confessions. Bishops who ask for a creepy level of detail in the confession ("what color was your underwear?" "the underwear was how far down your thigh" etc).

[_Buffalo]

Cobalt 70 from MAD found this:

http://contentdm.lib.BYU.edu/cdm4/docum ... SHOW=18859

Here's another old LDS publication (http://contentdm.lib...du/u?/YWJ,18859), which gives a rather different take on the eternal consequences of "immodesty" in which Elder George F. Richards counsels young women in 1916:

"The lustful eye caused by immodest dress condemns one as an adulterer at heart which means a loss of spirituality, and in some instances a loss of virtue. Consider here, where does the responsibility primarily belong?

"What would one of our girls think or how would she feel if after marriage she should learn from her husband that before marriage by reason of her immodest dress and exposed person he had been so overcome by lust as to resort to haunts of vice for gratification and there formed the habits and possibly contracted the disease which is henceforth to be her greatest trial, her greatest curse. This picture I do not believe to be overdrawn. If her husband has escaped, some one else's husband or son may be the victim."

[_hobo1512]

Another one I forgot, related to confessions. Bishops who ask for a creepy level of detail in the confession ("what color was your underwear?" "the underwear was how far down your thigh" etc).

Seriously?

EWWWWWWWW

[_why me]

A very visible amount of anonymous people on internet message boards obsessed with the sexual activities of church members.

Yes, it is amazing. Sort of creepy.

[_why me]

The Mormon most obsessed with masturbation is BKP, hands down--or at least that's where he wants everyone's.

Well, I don't know. But I do know that this board certainly has a masturbation addiction. Kinda creepy.

[_why me]

Let me see if I have this right: we were taught our whole lives to feel guilt and shame over sexual feelings and actions, so we suppressed them or lived with terrible guilt (or like me, we did both). We grow up and recognize that these teachings were damaging and warped our view of sexuality, so we occasionally talk about this subject with other people who understand what we've been through.

This is not true at all. Mormons are not taught to feel guilty and shame about sexual feelings. But they are told that before marriage such feelings need to be controled. Here is what Mormons are taught: sex is a beautiful act of love between two people that are married to the other. And it is also for procreation within a marriage relationship.

This board does not occasionally talk about sex. It is quite often, especially masturbation. Kinda creepy really.

[_Runtu]

This is not true at all. Mormons are not taught to feel guilty and shame about sexual feelings.

You definitely were never a Mormon. Either that or you weren't paying attention.

But they are told that before marriage such feelings need to be controled. Here is what Mormons are taught: sex is a beautiful act of love between two people that are married to the other. And it is also for procreation within a marriage relationship.

If only that were true. It's not.

This board does not occasionally talk about sex. It is quite often, especially masturbation. Kinda creepy really.

I think the denial about what the church actually teaches is creepier.

[_Quasimodo]

The Mormon most obsessed with masturbation is BKP, hands down--or at least that's where he wants everyone's.

Well, I don't know. But I do know that this board certainly has a masturbation addiction. Kinda creepy.

I've noticed that why me is always participating in the masturbation discussions despite his objections. If he were Mormon, I might list him as one of the ten creepiest things about the church.