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Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

You are perhaps not high enough up to see what really goes on. A dear friend of mine left the company M because of the hypocrisy, especially towards women.

If you’re not one of them you’ll never, ever know what’s really going on.

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Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

You are perhaps not high enough up to see what really goes on. A dear friend of mine left the company M because of the hypocrisy, especially towards women.

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Anonymous wrote:I have known a group of Mormon lawyers for almost a decade and not one has ever gossiped, shirked work, boasted, been caught in a lie, or lost their temper to my knowledge. I have been to their houses, met their wives, worked closely with them on miserable cases with long days, late nights, and awful colleagues. I have seen them each under extreme pressure and in unfair situations. Yet, they have been unfailingly kind, patient, calm, and good.

How is this possible?

There is literally no one else I have ever known who has kept up such exemplary behavior for even a week. Not even other religious people I know (who profess to have the "joy of the Lord" and other such nonsense, but are worse than most athiests and agnostics who profess no such moral standards).

I don't have a religious bone in my body, but I would love to learn how to maintain such exemplary behavior. I would also love to teach it to my kids.

+1

Mormons spend all of Sunday at church, fast all morning beforehand, tithe a bunch of their money to their church without fail, go on meaningful Missions as young adults, and a whole host of other things *in practice* to keep their faith. They are amazing, in terms of practicing, as you said, OP. I have known many Mormons, and lived with a couple in my younger days (as roommates), and it is not just an "act", or demonstrated when it is "convenient" to them. I really admire them, myself.

OTOH, I know Catholics (this is not bashing, as my husband is Catholic) - who go to church for an hour each Sunday and treat their neighbors, quite literally, like crap - attacking them at every turn. They infinitely *say* they are a "good person", and rarely show it, or show it only when it is convenient. Such hogwash. I avoid those people like the plague to society and mankind that they are.

OP here. What you describe is my exact experience of Catholics and Evangelicals. I didn't want to name names in my first post, but most Christians other than Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are thoroughly miserable people, in my experience. I have a family full of various sects of Christians and they are just awful.

Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

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I have no interest in becoming a Mormon but the Mormon families I know are all very close, loving and hard working

from the outside looking in perhaps. Mormons are no different from any other people -- there are lots of skeletons in those closets. Wealth is very important, and smiling through grief is too. I knew kids who were being abused by parents, and the church did nothing to protect those children, but instead protected the parents from law enforcement. Dissent is not tolerated, and everyone has to toe the line or be kicked out.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/10/3787182/navajo-sue-mormon-over-sex-abuse/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/10/is-the-mormon-church-expanding-the-role-of-women/
http://www.mormonstories.org/john-dehlin/

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Anonymous wrote:I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

This sums up pretty much every Mormon I've ever met. Racist with a huge smile!

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but interestingly, there are a large number of Mormons that work for the FBI.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea, but my experience has been the same. I wish I could believe in the Book of Mormon, because it seems to be quite magical.

Have you ever tried reading it with the purpose of wanting to believe.

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea, but my experience has been the same. I wish I could believe in the Book of Mormon, because it seems to be quite magical.