#i had a crush on a mormon boy in highschool a million years ago

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

Just wanna gently add to stay mad at the church, but to be kind to young missionaries. If you don't have the spoons, just ignore them . Cult yes, colonizers yeah, but unleashing that justified vitriol at the kid elders on bikes is just what their church wants.

In many ways, they are prepped to expect the worst from outsiders to where their mission is as much about reinforcing their isolation as it is conversion. According to some ex-mormons, proving the outside world to be hostile to barely legal kids is the true use for missions cuz they know their efforts to convert people are met with slammed doors and jeers. They're already vulnerable coming from huge tight families and being cut off from them and their friends for weeks before they even start proselytizing to people. It's a devious manipulation by the church to cement their dependence on the church.

Your best weapon is kindness. Show them you don't need to be Mormon to be a complete person as their church insists. When my old apartment complex was full of missionaries, I gave em a few boxes of pies from Thanksgiving. We gave them tamales, all kinds of stuff. Made small talk, asked about where they were from, what they wanted to do in college etc. Just show them it's indeed possible to be kind without the cult. I've heard of people making human, community connections with missionaries who eventually left the church and made sure that kind person knew they were a domino in their deconstruction.

mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something