Anonymous wrote:Same and we lived there for three years. The nicest people I have been met. I want my kids raised like them too, except I drink coffee and coke though.

A lot of Mormons drink coffee and soda...

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a cult. I mean that literally. They’re nice, but it’s a cult.

Every religion is a cult.

No, every religion is not a cult

Anonymous wrote:It’s a cult. I mean that literally. They’re nice, but it’s a cult.

Every religion is a cult.

Sounds like you just need structure in your life, OP. Like you need a higher power to constraint your wants. But joining a new religion does not automatically make you a nice person who no longer wants to drink alcohol or chocolate. You are still you underneath.

I found similar people at one of the larger UU Congregations.

Black people were second class citizens until the late 70s.

Wasn’t their doctrine to overthrow the US government until the 1990s?

I am pretty familiar with mormons considering much of my family is mormon (my own parents do not practice/are lapsed).

There are both big plusses and minuses about the culture.

By the way, religions that rely heavily on prosletyzing/converting tend to put forward extremely happy faces. We are all in the business of selling hte religion with our daily lives, actions, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Same and we lived there for three years. The nicest people I have been met. I want my kids raised like them too, except I drink coffee and coke though.

You can drink coke, but not coffee or tea. It's hot drinks that are the problem.

Listen to/read the first story (not the prologue) and tell me how wholesome and healthy they Are.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/661/transcript

I grew up non-Mormon in Utah. It was..rough, though I guess kids will seize on any difference, and that was mine. After I moved, the Mormons I’ve met outside Utah have mostly met your definition. Things in Utah feel way more icky and cultish.

You know you can be a nice person, eat healthy, be family oriented, and even be a prude without having religious beliefs, right? Just be a better person.

I like orthodox Jews

I felt the same way, OP! I started following all these Mormon mommy bloggers. Ultimately I converted to Catholicism, the young practicing Catholics I know are also calm happy people, and I follow a bunch of social media Catholic moms too. But the Mormons really have something special.

Anonymous wrote:I have felt this! But I had a strong disagreement with the mormon church, its teachings, and its base in theology. But...the people were so damn nice! And sincere!

They are nice if you are nevermo, never-a-mormon
If you take the step to become one they are very demanding.. After a certain time of courting you there will be pressure to conform. People that seem nice are not all nice