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.