The Negative Effects of Mormonism

I often hear, from exmormons, nonmormons, and mormons alike, that whether they think the LDS Church is true or not, they think the mormon church is "good" and has alot of good influence on the world, and in general is a good christian church, and is not a big worry. But, in my personal experience and studying, have found this to be utterly false. The Mormon Church has lots of problems, negative effects, and just plain wrong and evil aspects. To go into these in detail would be long and lengthy, so I will create a list of them with links and summaries

1. BYU has been involved in shock treatment to rid gays of their unnatural affection.
• History of Gays at BYU
• Jayce Cox interview. Interview with a victum of the electro shock therapy. This story made my stomach turn it's horribly sad.
2. Joseph Smith practiced polygamy in secret before recieving the official "revelation," even seducing other men's wives
• In Sacred Lonliness: The Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton, Signature Books, Salt Lake City
• Documentation of Joseph Smith's seduction of other men's wives
3. The Mormon Church practiced polygamy, and still belives in it as an eternal principle.
• Mormon Polygamy: A History by Richard S. Van Wagoner, Signature Books, Salt Lake City
• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valene Tippett Avery, University of Illinois Press, 1994
• Various links about polygamy
4. Brigham Young taught that certain sins must be paid with a person's life, known as the "Blood Atonement" doctorine.
• Mormonism and the Blood Atonement
• http://utlm.org/topicalindexa.htm#Blood Atonement
• http://www.exmormon.org/bloodatn.htm
• Mormon Fundamentalism and Violence: A Historical Analysis
5. The Mormon Church reinforces beliefs with guilt of damnation, threats
• My own page, Why Mormonism is a cult
• The LDS Endowment Page, all the versions of the endowment are listed, including later removed threats of death to keep secret handshakes and other variousu "sacred" things
• Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet by Ezra Taft Benson, a great example of how you must follow leaders and not even think for yourself
• Guilt and Shame: What Mormons say when you leave the Mormon Church
6. Mormonism is rascist, it denied non-white members access to the priesthood until 1976, and still holds to the fact that the black race is part of "Cain's Seed"
• Blacks and the Priesthood in the Mormon Church
• Mormon racism in perspective
• http://utlm.org/topicalindexb.htm#Racism
7. Mormonism is very anti-sexual and instills guilt and shame and causes people to have disfunctional sexual lives and experiences.
• Shadow Influences of Plural Marriage on Sexuality Within The Contemporary Mormon Experience
• Boyd K Packer's speech on masturbation
8. Mormon leaders hid critical evidence in the Hofman murders in 1980
9. Mormons used to practice a form of communism, that they covent to practice in one of the rituals in the temple, and will practice in "heaven"
10. Mormonism is sexist and put women in a defined lower role, cannot lead, require men for their salvation, savation is thru men for them
11. Mormonism is anti-gay
12. Mormonism has mixed church and state before, Joseph Smith was has been proclaimed as a King
13. Mormonism puts family second behind faithfulness and loyalty to the Church and it's leaders.
14. What's so harmful about being LDS?

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