Your calling to clean the toilets is a calling from God.And evokes a spiritual experiance!

How do you know you are in a cult?

When the leadership tells you from cradle to grave that your testimony of the church is your most precious posession and that you must maintain it at any cost.

You bend over to kiss your wife and your baker's hat falls off.

If you just keep chanting it long enough you'll believe it too...

In order to show God that you love him and he loves you - you have to agree to your throat being slit, your bowels being disembowled, and your heart being ripped from your chest.

Fun times.

Exmojoe Wrote:
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> In order to show God that you love him and he
> loves you - you have to agree to your throat being
> slit, your bowels being disembowled, and your
> heart being ripped from your chest.
>
> Fun times.

Oh didn't you know? We changed that part of the everlasting covenant.

Actually, it never existed. Ask your stake president.

cludgie Wrote:
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> Actually, it never existed. Ask your stake
> president.

Thank you Cludgie for the correction. I should have remembered to forget that.

You are taught that number one value is obedience. Complete, total, blind obedience.

you are asked to give 10% of your gross income (including gifts and allowances from kids) and told to never ask what is done with it. It is the Lord's money to be used by the Lord's servants for the Lord's purposes.

When the bishop has inspiration from god concerning personal choices in my life that I disagree with

Just the whole idea of getting revelation on someone elses behalf

When you are told that you are being screwed by old men even have a handshake for it and you still don't leave..
The patriarchal grip or sure sign of being nailed.

...you leave the organization but the organization doesn't leave you alone.

they tell you:

what to eat and drink
how many peicing or tattos to have
what type of sex to have
what to wear specifically what underwear to wear and what other clothes not to wear, what colour of shirt on a sunday
what hairstyles not to have
what to watch
what to listen to
what to read
what to think (all your thoughts are recorded in heaven and will be shouted from the roof tops)
who to be frineds with
places to go and not go
family planning sorted for you
how to spend your time
not to read or belive anything contray to what they tell them - there is no disscussion.
to pay them money even when you can't afford food.