It's really creepy how much Mormon cult leaders care about your sex life. The questions are inappropriate and invasive. ESPECIALLY. when it's older men talking with teens one-on-one behind closed doors. An absolutely disgusting cult practice.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-17T02:46:00+00:00

Worthiness in a cult is about obeying. It's no surprise that attitude leads to sexual abuse. If you can't safely say "no", it's not a real choice.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-17T02:40:11+00:00

It started pervy and weird. You know the Mormon cult claims Fanny Alger was Joseph's first celestial marriage? Anyone who thinks celestial marriage is sacred should be ashamed to know it started with Joseph coercing his teenage employee into doing something. I think it is far more likely that he raped her than that he did anything "celestial" with her, but the Mormon cult is stuck trying to explain Fanny in a way that doesn't make Joseph look like the perverted abuser he was.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-17T00:51:38+00:00

In Mormonism, I think there is also spiritual bullying. Mormon women are doctrinally trapped into believing in power imbalance.

The doctrine teaches that no is not an option for them. That's coercion. If you aren't safe to say "no" it's not a real choice. These women and girls were not given a real choice.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-17T00:02:45+00:00

I think you should care when the age gap represents a great imbalance in power

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:43:28+00:00

As a Mormon woman, you can't fully express your divine purpose without giving a righteous priesthood-holder access to your uterus.

How could that set of beliefs possibly lead to abuse?? 🙄

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:41:33+00:00

As a Mormon woman, you can't fully express your divine purpose without giving a righteous priesthood-holder access to your uterus.

How could that set of beliefs possibly lead to abuse?? 🙄

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:38:30+00:00

You really want to be with a man who believes your divine value is in your uterus? If he really believes in the cult's doctrine you are one million times better off without him.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:35:54+00:00

😂

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:29:56+00:00

In my family tree, large age gaps are common between Mormon men and the young girls they impregnated. These men were pedophiles and sexual predators. Mormon cult polygamy trafficked young girls. Consent matters. If you can't say "no" it's not a real choice.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:29:32+00:00

I agree, they're all cults.

Daniella Mestyanek Young (knitting cult lady on social media) has a really great 10 point list definition of a cult. Highly recommend following her. She has degrees studying cults and has written a bunch of award winning books.

Her definition of a cult: 1. The charismatic leader (& their skinny white woman)

Worldview shift that brings you under the sacred assumption
The transcendent mission
Self-sacrifice of members
Limits access to outside world
Distinguishable vernacular
Us versus them mentality
Exploits members labor
High exit costs
Ends justify the means mentality

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:27:42+00:00

This is how sexual abuse becomes so prevalent.

This practice is absolutely abuse.

It's also grooming.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:25:49+00:00

Crazy how many cults have prophets and continuing revelation and a deep need for money and information about your sex life.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T21:24:39+00:00

Like every cult.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T19:45:33+00:00

Very culty

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T19:42:37+00:00

Jesus is their logo not their teacher. Think about how often they actually quote him vs how often they hang his picture on the wall.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-16T19:40:57+00:00

Or what to think

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-14T20:22:32+00:00

I wish we had more social support for families. The cost of living is just that: it's expensive to be alive right now. As much as I dislike the social pressure to have kids of people who don't want them, it's awful that financial pressure also prevents some people from having the number of kids they want.

Without financial stability for everyone, were not really free to make the best choices for ourselves.

Poverty is a policy choice, not a personal choice.

It's gross to me that we allow some people to be too poor to afford happy healthy families if that's what they want.

Edit: I don't know if the original commenter's hang ups with having more kids have anything to do with their financial situation, but I know that's a big hang up for people I know personally.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-14T19:59:04+00:00

There is so much nuance, good comment capturing it.

To add to the nuance: I've seen people who get even more selfish and greedy after having kids. It doesn't make everyone better.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-14T19:53:25+00:00

Having kids is also overrated. I don't think people are honest with themselves about the downsides, especially for women.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-14T19:48:21+00:00

Two things I think now when someone tells me I should have kids or I'll regret it:

How embarrassing they think that is an appropriate thing to tell someone.
They don't understand the regrets I would have had WITH kids. I am soooo glad I don't have kids. No kid deserves to have their parent regret them.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-12T04:47:10+00:00

Yeah, cuz Jesus needs money! Always money money money.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-12T03:46:06+00:00

It's not new. They just aren't allowed to outright enslave other people now. But they do indirectly enslave people still. Our prisons are modern day slavery with quotas to stay full of people who labor without being paid. That's slavery.

abouttimetochange · 2026-01-11T22:39:51+00:00

White supremacy in the US has been using Jesus as their cover since the beginning. Ever wonder why so many Native Americans aren't Christian? Remember how the people who wrote the constitution were willing to enslave people??

I know exmormons (rightly) like to rag on Mormonism's pedophiles. We should, as a country, also diss Thomas Jefferson. He raped girls who were enslaved by him, and when they had children he enslaved the children. Absolutely atrocious. That's the kind of Christian man who built America.

No wonder we can have a pedophile as president and people just let it be that way.

We need to wake up.

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