I was going to give it a serious shot and convert to mormonism.....there were so many perks.
But I could not give up my coffee, and cigarettes.
The multiple wife angle's great.
Exactly, even got the wife the book of Mormons.
The unspoken motivation stayed unmentioned, maybe because she knew cigarettes and coffee would be impossible to give up.
In one case, I was making over $200,000/yr, my gf dumped me, I got severely depressed, got fired from my job for poor performance (I was a depressed slug), and was unable to work for about two years. My career never recovered.
The stereotype actually serves to their advantage when they are proselytizing. I live in the Southwest US where this is a large concentration of LDS. Because of growing up here, in high school I spent a fair amount of time with schoolmates who were Mormon. I can tell you truly that it is a mask. I've been in the kitchens and living rooms of my friends and have seen the non-public side. They present this happy "face" to the world, but underneath, they are no different from anyone else, and some of them have inner hostility and resentment for having to live under the church rules and restrictions and still having to keep up the pretense of sunny and wonderful. Over time, they become jaded to the point that this inner conflict resolves to a dull ache that can hardly be felt, and the pretense becomes comfortable like a pair of well-worn leather shoes. My Mormon friends are good people though, no matter how conflicted they are on the inside, and they do "practice what they preach" unlike some other Christian groups.
I bet they drink soda and coffee in private just like everyone else.
Why do they have a problem with coffee, but no big deal with having 4 wives?
Christian: Jesus is the eternal Son. He is second person of the Trinity. He has two natures. He is God in flesh and man (John 1:1, 14; Col. 2;9) and the creator of all things (Col. 1:15-17).
Mormon: Jesus is the literal spirit-brother of Lucifer, a creation (Gospel Through the Ages, p. 15).
Mormonism is obviously not the biblical version of Christianity. It is not Christian, and Mormons serve a different god than do the Christians -- a god that does not exist. Paul talks about this in Gal. 4:8, "when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods." Only the God of the Bible exists. There are no others. Mormonism puts its faith in a non-existent god.
Do you find the way Mormons practice their faith and live their life in treating other people any different than the Christian way? Never mind the bigamy etc.
No lawmakers on city, state, county, federal level will be exempt from any laws that they pass......that includes all personal and professional restrictions.