If you had to be either Orthodox Jewish or Mormon which would you pick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are asking me to choose between pork and shellfish on one hand, and coffee and alcohol on the other?

This game sucks.

My Mormon friend says she’s a Diet Coke fiend, but it’s decaffeinated and while she looks happy, it makes my die inside.

Id make an excellent slacker mormon – or whatever would be the equivalent of cafeteria catholic. I just can’t give up caffeine. Not even for my own planet in the hereafter.

Jack Mormon is the term

[Anonymous]

Mormon, because I want to move to Utah anyhow. Skiing! Sun! Reasonably priced housing!

[Anonymous]

I'm an ex Mormon and I'd honestly rather die than go back. I had an awful experience that resulted in PTSD.

[Anonymous]

As a woman, Mormon all the way. But NOT Utah Mormon. That’s different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a woman, Mormon all the way. But NOT Utah Mormon. That’s different.

How about a Park City, not Provo, Mormon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mormon. Studies have shown they are healthier too. I already don’t drink so I would feel more at home with them than the general public.

And women are more depressed than anywhere in the U.S. Seriously, Utah has the highest antidepressant use for women in the USA

[Anonymous]

Just don’t be a lesbian Mormon. Would be very unpleasant.

[Anonymous]

I'd be a Mormon who sneaks coffee on the side.

Religious people cheat on all sort of things, anyhow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a woman, Mormon all the way. But NOT Utah Mormon. That’s different.

How about a Park City, not Provo, Mormon?

Anything is better than Provo Mormon. Park City is great but you’re still surrounded

[Anonymous]

Kind of a mean-spirited question, no?

[Anonymous]

Would you mind sharing more? I'm curious to know about your experience if you feel like sharing.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an ex Mormon and I'd honestly rather die than go back. I had an awful experience that resulted in PTSD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of a mean-spirited question, no?

That was my thought, too.

Both groups have ideologies that are deeply offensive to many of us...asking which group you'd choose to be affiliated with isn't a neutral question.

[Anonymous]

I suppose I would be a closet atheist in both of those scenarios

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of a mean-spirited question, no?

That was my thought, too.

Both groups have ideologies that are deeply offensive to many of us...asking which group you'd choose to be affiliated with isn't a neutral question.

It's a theoretical question, not a binding decision. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

If you mean Modern Orthodox, definitely that -- I'm Jewish, so for one, I just know way more about any form of Judaism than I do about the LDS church.

If you mean would I want to be part of a Hasidic community, probably that, too -- again, just seems like while it'd be a big change from my current mostly secular life, I'd rather stick with something I know a bit than something else entirely.

It's sort of a strange question, though, that relies on some probably unsupported assumptions about both Mormons and Orthodox Jews.