People LOVE certainty! We collectively do all sorts of things to AVOID uncertainty!!

Gambling offers people 'excitement' & entertainment in exchange for the supposed uncertainty of a payoff (House ALWAYS keeps / wins about 25%, but not 25% of YOUR $)

People Love & Want certainty in their financial & personal/emotional lives.

Love & Certainty don't go together anymore 'like they used to', but LDS, Inc tries to Remedy that with Temple Marriages & Sealings, promises (That they can't deliver on) of "Eternal Life".

In exchange for tithing, members get the unwritten promise that saints will always have enough...


Those are the things people want.



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That's the message of the Grand Inquisitor chapter in The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky.

I used to think that people crave love, most of all, but I agree that certainty overrides live.

Believing in the supremacy of love, I have always been confused why people cling to such a loveless, mercenary, and abusive religion. "certainty" would explain it.

There's something else which I believe is an even stronger motivation for people to join and stay in a cult. FEAR! This a powerful emotion! Mormonism is based on frightening lies and threats.

Fear that if you aten't a member of the cult, that you are a member of a church thar is wrong, and even evil.

Fear of losing your family forever. (The most horrible threat to a child, who's ver life depends on his parents!). The Mormons in Primary threatened my kids with this.

Fear if burning in the second coming (Mormons call tithing "burn insurance.". Not funny--especially to kids.

Fear of beibg shunned, disowned, hated by Mormon family members.

Fear of "outer darkness."

Mormonism focuses on DEAD PEOPLE, which still scares the c---- out of me!

because a certain portion of the population is very gullible/ foolish/ STUPID aka real MORmONS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOPRdjrlJE

Sure, LDS, Inc. sells you certainty, but then they undermine you with uncertainty over your place in that plan.

As a non-believer, you face an eternity that extends from nothing to one of the many belief systems such as reincarnation, resurrection, etc. As a Mormon, you know what the plan is.

However, you then spend your whole life fearing whether you are "worthy" or not. You become a slave to LDS, Inc., giving up to them whatever they ask in time, money and devotion. Even the most industrious TBM still questions whether he/she is worthy. Did that negative thought about your neighbor condemn you to a lower kingdom? What if my kids don't believe? Did I proselytize my neighbors enough? Did I serve a worthy mission?

You replace the uncertainty of the eternities with personal angst over trivial rules. Instead of wonder and possible despair, you spend your entire life mired in guilt-induced anxiety.



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