Posted by:
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Date: August 01, 2017 08:46AM
I am a BIC Mormon, and grew up with Mormon brothers and cousins. I dated a lot of Mormon men at BYU. I had two marriages and two divorces with Mormon men. After my divorces, I was called as a regional head of the LDS Singles. I tell you these things from experience, and from knowing the Mormon scriptures and teachings.
Here's the truth about most Mormon men. There are exceptions, of course, but in your case, you need to know few Mormon facts:
Your Mormon co-worker will always put the Mormon cult First--ahead of you, ahead of any unfortunate young Mormon woman he ends up marrying. Mormons are brainwashed from childhood, that the church is the most important thing in life. Not Christ. Not the spouse or children. This is one of the main reasons that the Mormon church is defined as a full-blown CULT.
Your Mormon co-worker is a priesthood holder. Women can not--and never will be allowed to--hold the priesthood. The Mormon cult treats women as second-class citizens. The women's group, the Relief Society, is run by the men. Most of their lessons are on subjects such as "Honoring the priesthood" and "being worthy to attend the temple" and "Obedience." When I taught RS, the lessons were based on speeches and writings of old POLYGAMOUS Mormon prophets, with little relevance to life as we know it. Trust me--the "ideal" woman is NOT a working woman. Mormon women are admonished to stay at home with the children, and not work.
Your Mormon co-worker has been brainwashed to marry only a "worthy" mormon girl--in the temple! In the Mormon temple, there are secrets, kept even from the Mormons themselves, until it is too late, and they are in the middle of the rituals. I, myself was married in the Mormon temple, and I wanted to run out of there, but there were 300 guests attending my reception afterwards, and I couldn't leave, with my mother and sisters-in-law and aunts sitting all around me. Men sit on one side of the room, and women on the other. The women have to veil their faces, for some of the rituals. For the anointing ritual, you have to take off all your clothes, and you are covered only with a drape, and a temple worker anoints your genitals and breasts with oil. In those days, men pledged obedience to God, and the women pledged obedience to their husband. We all had to pantomime slitting our throat, then our heart, then our bowels, in blood oaths to never tell anyone (even other temple mormons) anything about these secrets. There are secret handshakes, that are taught only in the temple, and without these secret handshakes, no one can enter the highest degree of Heaven. It is only for temple Mormons. IMO, this is nasty, evil stuff. It all requires that you pay 10% of your income, for a temple recommend. This is what your Mormon co-worker wants for his life, for his wife, for his children.
The temple wedding ceremony is really a covenant for a man and a woman to pledge themselves to the cult "under the New and Everlasting Covenant." You can find the exact wording online. The "New and Everlasting Covenant" is Joseph Smith's covenant of POLYGAMY. Mormons were forced by the US Government to give up polygamy, but they believe that polygamy is still God's way. They believe that there will be polygamy in heaven. A man can get married in the temple as many times as he wants, after a wife dies or after a divorce. My ex-husband who beat me, married three temple wives, after me, and they all divorced him. He will still be married to them in heaven, the Mormons believe. I will be one of his wives. I, as a woman, was not allowed to marry my second husband in the temple.
You really did dodge a bullet!
Mormonism is a cult of hate. They believe that all the other religions are false. They are homophobic. They are racist and sexist. Their scriptures support this. The lives of their prophets Joseph Smith and Brigham Young exemplify lying, stealing, murder, and other hate crimes.
Mormons are trained to put on a pleasant, even charming facade. Appearances are everything. The motive behind this is to recruit others, and "grow the church." I'm amazed that your co-worker hasn't tried to convert you. Mormons--especially missionaries--are trained to manipulate and fool others. That's why Utah is the No. 1 scam state in the Nation.
One last thing you need to know, is that Mormons don't believe in unconditional love. Russell M. Nelson, a Mormon apostle, can be quoted as saying, "unconditional love is anti-Christ."
Mormonism is not a Christian religion. Christ is hardly mentioned in the talks and lessons. Love is not preached or practiced. Your Mormon friend is most likely love-deprived, and, likewise, probably couldn't ever love you in the way a normal man could.
Look elsewhere for love!
Set boundaries, and make it clear that you are co-workers only. If he starts to cajole you and flirt with you--call him on it! Tell him to stop harassing you, and to find another way to feed his ego.