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  Which of these religions is the “weirdest”? (search mode)
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Question: Which of these belief systems is the “weirdest”?
#1
Mormonism
 
#2
Scientology
 
#3
Nation of Islam
 
#4
Raelism
 
#5
Adventism
 
#6
Jehovahs Witnesses
 
#7
Falun Gong
 
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Author Topic: Which of these religions is the “weirdest”?  (Read 3820 times)
If my soul was made of stone
discovolante
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« on: October 15, 2022, 11:58:31 AM »

Write-in: Global Community Communications Alliance, also centered around a very unlikely would-be prophet (a failed musician and charismatic Catholic activist from Pittsburgh who moved to Arizona and started an esoteric ufologist hippie compound-cum-record-label)
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If my soul was made of stone
discovolante
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Posts: 4,244
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E: -8.13, S: -5.57

« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2022, 08:59:03 PM »

Mormonism is not "weird". It does make the most sense to me.

But it is a GOP club and I have no interest in it. It is way to political.

Ex-Mormonism is far more of an ethnoreligion than Mormonism could ever hope to be.
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If my soul was made of stone
discovolante
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E: -8.13, S: -5.57

« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2022, 12:24:14 AM »

Mormonism is not "weird". It does make the most sense to me.

But it is a GOP club and I have no interest in it. It is way to political.

Ex-Mormonism is far more of an ethnoreligion than Mormonism could ever hope to be.

If the 2nd post is serious, could you elaborate on it? Are you saying that ex-mormonism is more unifying/homogenizing than Mormonism itself?

It's a tongue-in-cheek quip painting with a broad brush, but the fact that we can even point to the stereotype of the queer kid from a genteel Mormon family who breaks with the church and moves to Salt Lake City to become a bobo while still carrying many quirks and cultural signifiers of having been raised in the church, and that "ex-Mormon" online communities are so widespread, is telling here, especially in light of non-Mormon America's love for performatively dunking on Mormonism and anyone associated with it and the backlash that engenders.
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If my soul was made of stone
discovolante
YaBB God
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Posts: 4,244
United States


Political Matrix
E: -8.13, S: -5.57

« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2022, 06:02:43 PM »

The Dr. Yakub stuff is hilarious and serves as a source of inspiration and courage in my personal life.

The Nuwaubian Nation would like a word with you.
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