Christian bullying in Mormonism. #lds #mormon #christian

How Mormon kids bully others.

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[tk]

Imagine throwing away someone's peach tea, thinking you are saving their eternal soul. 🤣🤣🤣

[myblueskye]

Actual Christians know that everyone has sinned, so no one has the right to bully anyone else about it, especially not for drinking tea or coffee, which is not a sin!

[MK-ftqt]

My mother was born in Utah and she used to say " I know who these people are." She knew they were back stabbers and liars.

[emperorshrek]

I’m ngl why you said they yelled sinner I imagined a whole bunch of dudes in robes following you with a bell saying shame shame shame

[asdyle]

NeverMo here... I went to HS in Utah county, came out in school, and lived in a community that refused to let their kids be friends with me because I didn't go to church. The day I was outed it was like I got a 6 ft force field. No one talked to me, sat by me, interacted with me. It was so lonely, but there was bullying/SA from many of the good Mormon boys.

[chadland]

The culture is toxic. It's really unfortunate that more people don't see it. Smh.

[nicoledickerson]

The first mistake is believing this is a Christian organization 🤷🏼‍♀️

[juliannewood]

This happened to me on a daily basis my freshman year at a Nazarene high school and several times a week when I went to a private Christian college. But I was prayed for and called sinner because I support the LGBTQ+ community. Like literally outside in the middle of the sidewalk people would stop me and say “oh we’ve heard about you. Let’s pray..” more like prey.

[susanfanning]

I'm a Christian. 50 years of devotion to God. Christians of various denominations can be extremely hateful with false righteousness.
I still follow Jesus and there are too many hateful Christians.

[ghardcastle]

Grew up in southern Idaho and all do this is so true. I grew up in the church but left it in highschool. Lots of bullying

[ald]

How can anyone respect ANY religion that allows it's believers to shout that at another just for having a cup of coffee or tea? How damned ridiculous.

That would make anyone question the validity of any such clandestine religion. It would me.

[pbjsilverstudio]

Oh man, the memories this brought back! Hahaha!! Yeah I can laugh now but….
My family converted (ostensibly to keep our family together in THIS world) when I was 😅 in the 10th grade. All the Mormon high schoolers fellowshipped me and taught me about how good Mormon girls conducted themselves. I went to seminary and got straight A’s. I lived how they taught me. Then they just tortured me for living that way calling me Polly Pure and Molly Mormon. I didn’t start to question the church until I got into college. Glad I left then.

[SethKing]

One of my favorite LDS quotes is "Members of the church are like fertilizer, spread out, they do a lot of good. Piled up, they just make a big stink". J. Golden Kimball.

[jennifermcculloch]

Their whole coffee and tea rule came from a couple quarrel. He didn't like her girl chatters and gossip over coffee and tea and she didn't like cleaning his friends tobacco spit. She told him "it would be really convenient if there was a sudden revelation that this is a sin"

Also, Mormons aren't Christians. That's not Matthew 18 church discipline

[Ellen-sgtv]

I'm proud of you girl ❤ Mormons couldn't drink coke or Pepsi until they bought the companies

[cheeseydude]

Ive got a huge group of LDS friends and they're the sweetest guys you can ask to be friends with. I'm not at all LDS but I still have love from them. I think there's a lot of old folk out there that push things TOO much on their kids. I've lived here in Utah my entire life and I have had some awkward moments, but wow. Sucks a lot of people are bullied. It might make sense(kinda bullying never makes sense) if you were in the church but left. I can see where they can call you sinner and maybe traitor or something.

[noSpoonsOnlyKnives]

I grew up in Utah as a non-Mormon (and non-Christian) and everything was fine friend-wise until 8 yo (the age everyone gets baptised in the LDS). At that point so long as their parents didn't know I could play with them but the second the parents found out I would be told to go away and not come back. The kids would run away from me, refuse to partner with me on school projects (and if the teacher forced them they wouldn't work with me so I'd end up doing it all myself anyway)

I was told by adults I'd be cast into the outer darkness (Mormon hell) as a kid that's pretty fucked up. I couldn't join scouts or anything like that because they were all Mormon run where we were at. It was so bad my brother joined and was baptised around 11 so he could have friends. I never did.

The Mormons brainwashed him to the point that we don't talk anymore and haven't since he got back from his mission. If we have to talk it's like talking to any other stranger. Business-like and brief.

[Lovecatholicfaith]

I definitely got it! I just started to miss something in my soul, it was like if I was empty! The feeling never give me peace! It was on me! Even when I was in side the Templo! But somehow I went to the mass at a Catholic Church and I just started to fell hungry it was a sensation and finally I saw the body of Christ! It was fulfilled my soul ❤I never was experience something like that before! I new Jesus was there! And since that moment Little by little I got far from Mormon church. And here I am! Happy to be Catholic ❤
This is my personal experience this is sacred for me and it’s important to me this changed my soul ever!
And when a friend Mormon want to push me to have religious conversation they are so rude ! And don’t understand that is my life ! And I deserved be respect for the love that I found in other religion.
I respect Mormon people they do a good job in their life! I was raised Mormon, everything good I’ve been learn there. But I was looking for something to fulfill my soul because it was hungry. And now I’m not hungry anymore! I still love and praise God and worshipping Jesus my Lord.
I just want a right to be who I am!
Thanks for sharing this video!

[jennenny]

Not even in a Mormon area, just the regular ol' Bible Belt and I can definitely relate. I literally got bullied for being the only one in my government class who was willing to debate the Democratic side of a few issues in a mock election. Some other kids screamed things like "sinner" and "baby killer" and "slut" at me in the hallway, among other things. The teacher was standing right there and did absolutely nothing. Someone invited me to go to church, and when I politely declined and told them that I was not religious, well, all hell broke loose. Even "friends" were constantly trying to "save" me.

[TheTinahanners]

I was 13 when I turned away from that church.