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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting observation! I too had some affluent LDS friends growing up and their houses were indeed incredibly clean (like, sparkling clean, in spite of having a ton of kids) and remarkably clutter-free.

My friend told me they had a cleaning schedule and they had to clean before someone came to inspect their house from the church--maybe on a biweekly basis?  They had a ton of cleaning chores down to things like cleaning blinds every week and wiping down the entire kitchen and cleaning the stove fan grease trap each and every time you cook.

I agree a lot of it for social media is probably studio set homes that they don't actually live in. But for regular folks I think it would be impossible to keep to those incredibly high house cleanliness standards without living in basically an empty space.[/quote]

No one from the church was coming to inspect their house, absolutely not. Maybe they just liked a clean house.  I grew up Mormon and have been in many homes, some neat and tidy, some messy, just like non-Mormons.  [/quote]

Since you grew up mormon, answer this:

Are mormons Christian-nationalists?[/quote]

NP but also a former Mormon.  Christian, yes, but not Christian-nationalists. Mormons are very tolerant of other religions and greatly respect almost all faiths.  The BYU Center for Religious Studies brings in scholars of different faiths' conferences on various studies.  One of my favorite professors at BYU was Jewish.  My closest girlfriends who are still active in the church are Republican but not voting for Trump.  There are fringe people in every religion, including Mormonism, but the general vibe of the Church is very respectful and inquisitive of other faiths and not at all pro-Trump.

On the point of the original post, growing up, most of my Mormon friends' houses were cluttered.  Incidentally, we have almost no clutter in our house, but that is because I have ADHD, and everything has to have a place, and DH (never Mormon) is a little OCD and hates clutter.  We have art on the walls, but no nicknacks, etc.  [/quote]

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