Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
We're not a cult, we
don't want to force
religion down your throat, and we whole-heartedly accept that you have your own opinion. We believe our church's doctrine to be true, yet many of the members are still quite flawed (myself included, as well as many others who have attempted to tell you what we're all about).
If you really want to know about our church, talk to the missionaries. Members have a tendency to twist what we believe in their own ways. The missionaries
will (for the most part) set you straight on our beliefs. They
will never force what they have to say upon you. If you
don't want them around, just politely tell them so. Trust me, I was a missionary myself. You can be mean to them, but they'll just make fun of you (like anybody else would).
The only real way for people to tell us apart from everyone else (and no, it's not our horns...although they're really quite stylish) is from the things we
DON'T do. For example, we
don't drink coffee or tea, and we
don't have
sex before we're married. By choice, mind you. Our members are free to drink as much coffee as they want, or look up as much
porn as they want. Seems to me that being able to NOT do such things is a great exercise in self-control. Most people
don't seem to like that because they themselves do not have the same self-control and they want to put down anyone else who does.
Please
don't disparage Joseph Smith. We revere him as a great man. It's not his church, and we
don't worship him. We follow our Savior Jesus Christ (although sometimes as members we have a tendency to think of that as a given, and could probably be more vocal about it).
We're not perfect. Neither are you. If you don't like us, that's fine. We accept that. We've heard everything you have to say about us. While most of it is either untrue or twisted, we allow you to have your own opinion. You don't have to join our church, so I don't see why everyone feels the need to condemn us. I don't remember Christ telling us to condemn another who believes and follows Him.
Do you?
I myself am a Mormon and I
love our church. We've got some really amazing people who do some really amazing things. I mean...who DOESN'T
love the Osmonds??? (That was a joke) But heck! Did you know the dude that invented the TV was Mormon? Holy crap, it's true! Philo Farnsworth. Look it up!
If you want to learn more about us visit Mormon.org or LDS.org. Good luck to us all.
