More like a cultural disorder.

Only if there are at least two mormons present and each knows there's another mormon there.

Otherwise you can't count on them 'acting' mormon!

"Cultural Gullibility"

I would consider it ethnic washing and anointing. Mormonism - the pure and delightsome ethnicity.

The "Do everything my way or else you're persecuting me for my religion" ethnicity.

Funny, but I initially thought you were describing the "Do everything my way or else you're persecuting me" philosophy evinced by nolongerangry and others in the sex ed thread!

True that feeling persecuted if someone has a different viewpoint is not exclusive to Mormons.

Yes, but in all forms that behavior bespeaks the same underlying character traits.

I hear you on this question and I'm on the fence. There are obvious traits that mormons have in common from a cultural perspective. From a physical perspective mormons have a long, long way to go to develop genetic traits that make them more unique but from a cultural perspective I think they are close.

That said, the church is changing so much it may make it more difficult for mormons to maintain their cultural unique-ness. Think about it - no more roadshows, or giant dance numbers (at least none that I'm aware of). The activities are low-to-no-budget so there is nothing special there.

I feel that from my perspective the things that made mormonism desirable have slipped away. Like awesome youth activities and themed dances with crazy decorations (not just a few balloons in the basketball net). It seems the epic nature or scale of the activities has dried up. Now it is just a low-budget group that gives a lot of money and gets little in return.

Do you believe a for profit corporation can be considered an ethnicity?

I swear I remember reading or hearing once that the COB was actually trying to turn the church into its own sub cultural ethnicity, sort of like Jews.

Joseph Smith tried it. It is their thing - new Jews.

No, its more like a steaming pile of poop, if you wanna get

technical.

A cursed birth is all I know of it.

I would say they should be a cultural identity not ethnicity. Ethnicity has to do with language and color and culture. And Mormons are supposedly color blind, speak different languages, and have different cultures. But if Mormons openly admit that Utah has superior culture, openly admit that they prefer Anglo Saxons, and that English is the most important language, then yes they are an ethnicity.

Which come to think of it they do quietly espouse those beliefs.

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> Which come to think of it they do quietly espouse
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Thanks for the laugh. I was going to respond that they indeed do. Pax Mormona.

Mormons, as a group, should be considered brainwashed and brain-dead.

A group that agrees to let others tell them what to read, to think, to say, to dress, to eat, and on and on.

Hell, no. Judaism, yes. Islam, yes. Christian Orthodoxy, yes. Even Roman Catholics. Mormons, etc., no.