Mormonism absolutely DEMANDS that mormons have a mortal enemy.

Whether it be Catholics, Missourians, The US Government, gays, intellectuals, feminists or REAL historians and scientists, the mormon church hasn't been able to function for long without defining an "enemy" from amongst people who largely don't care whether the so-called church lives or dies.

This serves a couple functions.

Any misfortune and/or setbacks are blamed on the enemy du jour.

And the time and attention of mormon church members can be focused and directed outward at the supposed enemies, rather than maybe turning inward toward the absurdities of mormon doctrine, or the authoritarian inflexibility of the church itself.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2012 06:28PM by helamonster.

Yes!!!.....they are always fighting the enemies of the church. Satan always has a plan to drag them all down by influencing all of the "anti-mormons".

As if there was ever such a thing.

Perhaps Satan is the ultimate "straw man." We have yet to hear anything from old Scratch.

And he's very adamant that his name is actually "Stan".

Quite an amusing story of mistaken identities, really...

I read on one of the cult-watch websites that a sure-fire way to tell if a group is a cult or not is to criticize the leadership. In a normal, healthy group criticism is dealt with and discussed. In a cult, people freak out when you criticize their leaders. They perceive you as the enemy. At that point, you should run away.