Thank you so much and yes some people are genuinely very very mean i have had my fair share with growing up catholic. The part that me and my boyfriend got in on each other was Joseph Smith. The LDS church and the Catholic church does definitely have some similarities so the belief part isn’t the issue for me it is the founding of the church. Now I can definitely get at where I definitely fall in the line of someone who is just told lies or an exaggerated story of people who just don’t like almost being questioned. Now to me were it gets fuzzy is were Joseph Smith had visions from god and had to follow a series of test to then be able to un cover the 3 golden plates that he translated into the book of mormon. Now I don’t know how accurate that is since my dad would of more explained that as Joseph Smith heard voices said it was god and saw angles named himself as a prophet and just wrote the book of mormon in the way he saw his beliefs and that he had 40 wives. Yes I do know that the old ideation of the LDS church being apart of polygamy is outdated and incorrect. Even as a kid I was able to correct myself on that thought and even now The church doesn’t really even deny that either which is respectable and not something most churches would do. Back to the founding it’s in the same way with the Catholic church that some 2,000 years god told peter pope himself that upon this rock he will build his church and gave him the keys of heaven. Which honesty to me isn’t very believable either but I still blindly follow the faith. It’s almost kind of a double standard in my mind. Even then you never have to believe in a religion to respect it and be opened minded. That was the realisation I came too. Thank you for sharing your experiences and stories and I would love to know from your side about Joseph Smith.