Posted by:
Chump
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Date: August 20, 2014 07:22PM
You may have a different defintion of "jack-mormon", but this term is typically used to refer to believing, inactive members. They defend the church and would avoid RfM like the plague like any TBM. When TBM's think of people leaving the church, they ONLY think of jack-mormons...they think everyone will come back one day...everyone still believes, they're just lazy, want to sin, etc...
You can see here that the term is used in many different ways:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_MormonSusan Easton Black said (who knows if she's right) that the term was first widely used to describe those that left the church when the WoW became a commandment. It was used to describe those that spent Sundays at the bar. I believe she said her father was one of them.