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Objective or Daily Mail Doco?
I was in Utah last month and will be there again in a few weeks with work as we have a large LDS customer. On the surface a really nice bunch, but a lot of LDS discrimination as in they only employ LDS, they only respect LDS etc etc.
Also a very white state, you can go a week in Salt Lake City and not see a non white person.
NB LDS - Latter Day Saint.
Very white due to geographics? Unlike New Orleans which is very very far away. Interested to see the prog before I comment further
On the plus side:
- Utah is a beautiful state, great scenery, SLC is in a valley surrounded by mountains and at about 2000m altitude, so you get fantastic snow covered mountains as a back drop wherever you look and a really blue sky, that you only get at altitude.
- One of the tenants of LDS is looking after your body, so you see people jogging on pavements everywhere - which would be considered perverted behaviour and warrant a visit from the police in some US states!
I thought it was very similar to Colorado is many ways (not surprising as they're neighbours, just separated by the Rockies).
The presence of the PR guys is a bit of a diservice/own goal
The stuff they believe, is actually unbelievable, the real deal is, it's all about money. A mormon gives a tenth of his earnings (pre tax) to the church, ergo more believers = more cash. It's just pyramid selling with a God twist.
i'm beginning to think the Book of Mormon was a documentry
Ah you mean the tith.
If you cant afford/on lower income you can give less/lower.
It builds/up keeps churchs, gives money/assistance to poorer members in times of need, subsidises Missionarys who cant afford the costs. Helps pay for poor children to go on trips. Mormons dont target rich new members. They convert the poor too and help/feed and carry.
An arsonist burnt down the Huddersfield church. Tiths helped rebuild from scratch. Arson is common and as such insurance is difficult (so I was told).
I wish I was a Mormon. You get Sacred underwear. How good is that!
I've got holey socks, so part way there.
Used to work with a devout member of the LDS.
He had a zeal.
Theres a Mormon temple round the corner from me, fairly often I'll be stopped by missionaries whilst I'm carrying a clinking bag of bargain booze and a grin.
I spent a year in Idaho, the SE corner of which borders Utah and is just as Mormon. footflaps' comments are pretty much my impression - nice people, not noticeably weird from a day-to-day perspective, but very white and they definitely do discriminate against non-LDS.
I spent a year in Idaho, the SE corner of which borders Utah and is just as Mormon. footflaps' comments are pretty much my impression - nice people, not noticeably weird from a day-to-day perspective, but very white and they definitely do discriminate against non-LDS.
Some great MTB riding in the SE corner, Moab, Gunnison etc. Driven over form Colorado to ride there a few times....
Friends of mine moved to Utah and at first the locals were really friendly and welcoming. After about a year when the locals finally got the message that my friends really were not going to convert to LDS they started being really unfriendly, not just the cold shoulder, but some quite anti-social not what you'd expect from godly folk type of stuff.
It eventually drove my friends out and they moved to Alaska.