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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I felt this way when I spent a week with a friend who is an Orthodox Jew. I loved the emphasis on family, resting and reflecting and not using any electricity (or electronics) on the Sabbath as opposed to running around like a maniac, having other religious neighbors over and really feeling like a community. I think covid is making everyone a little lonely and craving community again, and that's a role that religion feels. I'm a terrible rule follower and there are a lot of rules that bother me in every religion, so I wouldn't be able to pull it off, but it's a good sign that we should slow down a bit and focus on neighbors, relatives, friends, the simple things. It also gives a sense of order when the world is in chaos. I bet a lot of people turn to religion when this is over, or even now.[/quote]

Interesting: when I was in college I knew many Mormons who were friends and housemates  with Orthodox Jews. The Mormons helped the Jews with stuff on Saturdays and the Jews handled things on campus for the Mormons while the Mormons went on their missions. [/quote]
Missions are the creepy part of Mormonism
Everyone who doesn't marry by a certain age has to do it for 2 years. You do not have a say as to where you will be sent. Contact with family is not allowed.
Mormonism is divided by class. You are assigned a church. Rich and poor do not belong to the same congregation. Rich get nice mission destinations like France, poor are sent elsewhere[/quote]

Some definite misinformation here.  First, people volunteer to serve missions, and now they can contact their families each week.

Next, your membership in a congregation is based on geography, so some units have more of one SES than another, but most are mixed.  Missions are definitely not assigned by class.  Everyone pays the same $400 to go on their mission and they are assigned based on need and inspiration.  I think you must have information from the 1970s when people had to pay the actual expenses related to their mission, so yeah, NYC and Tokyo were out-of-reach for some.[/quote]

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