Posted by:
Makurosu
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Date: October 26, 2010 03:13PM
Do your Mormon friends and family ever try to sneak Mormon beliefs into conversations? My mother does this. Mom will introduce some wrongheaded Mormon notion into a conversation and act like either it's the "right thing to do" or else everyone is doing it. She won't properly identify the source of the idea, as of course it's Mormon, and I think she likes the idea of getting people who don't believe in Mormonism to accept a Mormon idea. Plus, there's kind of a bossiness about the Mormon religion that makes people unable to contain themselves. They also tend to be very personal subjects that overstep boundaries, or else I'd be more detailed about what she talks about.
My conversations with Mom seem to follow a pattern. Mom will express some ridiculous Mormon notion and act like it's the only good and proper action possible. I'll reply with "That doesn't make any sense, because..." and go on to contradict everything she has said with either examples of how what she says isn't true or by referring to something we know from science. Mom will hem and haw, but will be unable to refute what I've said because she's just parroting what some Mormon leader said and hasn't actually given it much thought herself. So, she'll be confused, change the subject, and proceed to the next stealth Mormon wrongheaded notion, which I'll also refute. This is how my mother and I communicate.
After 10-15 minutes of this, she'll hand the phone to my father, and we'll have a comparatively normal conversation about fishing or lawn tractors.
I just think the attempts at stealth Mormonism are fascinating. Why can't we have a conversation about anything else like normal people? I wonder what she would do if the church shut down and they boarded up the building. Guess we'd have to talk about grandkids or something.
Does anybody else have this experience? Please tell me your stealth Mormon stories.