If I had to summarize Mormonism it would be that well-meaning people are living a lie.
The problem is that they know it. As I grew up in that Mormon community, the hypocrisy was blinding.
Lets start with one of their biggest things. “Forever families.” BS. The idea that families are the most important thing to them is lip service but in reality it is anything but the truth.
I lived between two Mormon families. One of them was my Uncle. I saw from friends in school and in that small community you get to see lots of things. What I saw disgusted me. You can’t have a family when most of the time the father is at church, or church service and meetings take up most of the time. You can’t have a family when the appearance of things is more important than the reality of things.
I saw firsthand how Mormon women are told to be modest and have “the light of Christ” in their eyes, but also they had to be attractive. They couldn’t be fat, non-blonde, or many other ridiculous and arbitrary qualities. I shared before how child sexual abuse was the highest in this Mormon county in the State due to the States own figures. Who is doing that? Not just the non-Mormons.
I had so many friends tell me they were being abused and then on Sunday pretend to be a healthy and normal family. I saw the bruises, the hurt feelings. I saw women desperate to please men because they thought that would be their salvation from a terrible home life. I had friends who were Mormon and dated many Mormon women. It was their chance to convert me and it never happened. I would tell them that I care for them, but I couldn’t swallow the Mormon faith.
So many lies, in so many ways.