Posted by:
AnonThisTime
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Date: April 08, 2012 01:45AM
Long story short, I have been out for several years now. DW knows better, but took the blue pill and has doubled down on Mormonism. We have young kids and we split weekends regarding religion. Since they spend some time going to the Mormon church, they get LDS magazines like the Friend.
Tonight I was putting DD to bed and she wanted to read The Friend, which was just fine by me. She found a cute story called "The Lost Purse" which looked fairly harmless to me. It is the basic honesty story . . . little kid finds stolen purse and decided to do the right thing rather than loot the bag. He and his mother contact the owner and return the bag. So far so good . . . basic honesty story. How can even the Morg manage to screw this up?
Why, in several ways. The kid in the story gets crazy Mormon at the end. After doing the kind deed for the non-member, he has to give her a pass-a-long card so the missionaries can give the lady a movie Jesus. The lady also tries to give him a $20 reward. At first he refuses, but the lady is insistent and he takes the reward so that he can use it for Jesus. The boy decide that using it for Jesus means using it for the church. He then decides that he will pay $2 in tithing donate some to the PEF, the Church Humanitarian Fund, while putting the rest in his mission fund.
Seriously . . . this was the basic little kid honesty story that nobody but the church could manage to screw up. The article had to eventually become a "church comes first" article which made me sick to my stomach. Seriously, Mormons, WTF? Why do you need to warp the kids in obedient little Morgobots so early?
Anyway, fuming a bit now and just wanted to share.