Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: December 19, 2019 12:08PM
I don't think it is the obvious things like controlling behaviors, blessing blind obedience, their healthy serving of guilt and shame especially tied to their ideals of perfection.
What makes The Mormon Church such a vehicle for narcissism for me is its focus on family. Abuse and abusers are most comfortable in familial environments.
The Smiths were a dysfunctional family who thought they had special powers and therefore had a heavenly mandate to abuse others.
Jesus on the other hand wasn't family obsessed.
"Jesus calls his disciples to give their allegiance first and foremost to him. Those who forsake human security, including their families, will receive “a hundredfold now in this age – houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions – and in the age to come eternal life” (Mark 10:29–31). In calling into question the primacy of the family, Jesus asks us to imagine a different social order, an all-encompassing community based not on natural ties but on discipleship. Jesus came to establish the new family of God, a family of disciples who follow him with the entirety of their lives (Matt. 10:34–37)."
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/jesus-surprising-family-valuesThe Mormon Church is a perfect vehicle for people who think that they are special and abuse others as a result. Narcissist's will find a perfect home in Mormonism's forever families.