What is it that's weird about mormons?

Question

I'm doing a documentary and I need to know anything weird you've heard about mormons, or you think are weird about what they believe in. Or any myths. Thanks!

Answer 1

To me the magic pj's, is the thing. And the whole you can become a god nonsense.

Answer 2

The weirdest thing I learned was that Joseph Smith "translated" the book of mormon by putting a rock into a hat and putting his face in the hat.   How anyone buys that is beyond me.

Answer 3

They wear special underwear called garments to remind them not to commit adultery.

Answer 4

Polygamy in the Celestial Kingdom...(highest level of mormon heaven)

The LDS Church STILL teaches polygamy as a tenet. It is NOT, however, practiced today because of the LAWS against it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a tenet, which of course means IT IS CONDONED. They practice it every day, in Mormon Temples all over the world.

Brigham Young said you are damned if you deny polygamy.

      "Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 266).  Also, "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269).

Garments

There are three levels of heaven: telestial, terrestrial, and celestial, Mormon Doctrine.

Wives of Joseph Smith (34, 11, already married, many teenagers)) and many mormon leaders, young had up to 90 wives and 57 children.

Translation of the BOM (rocks in a hat)(this is not how it is described to members)http://www.mrm.org/topics/book-mormon/se...

The book of Mormon is more correct than the Bible, smith said.

Blood atonement..

Brigham Young said your own blood must atone for some sins.

      "There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . . " (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page 247; see also, Vol. 4, pp. 53-54, 219-220.)

Brigham Young said you must confess Joseph Smith as a prophet of God in order to be saved.

      "...and he that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is Antichrist." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 9, p. 312).

Jesus and Satan are spirit brothers

God used to be a man on another planet, Mormon Doctrine, p. 321.

Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Vol 5, pp. 613-614

"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s..." (D&C 130:22).

People can become Gods and Goddesses.

God the Father had a Father

God resides near a star called Kolob

There are many gods

There is a mother god

"Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost ...Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!" (Doctrines of Salvation, Joseph Fielding Smith, 1954, 1:18).

Good works are necessary for salvation, Articles of Faith, p. 92.)

and many many more...

Answer 5

They believe that Jesus came to the Americas, and the Native Americans who saw him or converted or something turned white.

They believe that the book of Mormon was revealed to Joseph Smith on gold plates or something, and that only he could see it.

If a Mormon couple gets divorced, then the wife won't become a god.

Answer 6

Woah, lots of material for this one:

a) Their underwear have secret powers (magical underwear)

b) They baptize dead people in a temple

c) They believe God lives on the planet Kolob and has loads of wives (i.e. is a polygamist) that he has physical s*x with to make spirit babies that then populate the earth.

d) They believe black people will literally turn white when they become good (or something like that)

e) They believe being dark skinned is the mark of having fought against God.

f) They believe God had s*x physically with Mary

g) They believe in a living prophet that talks to God in the present day.

h) They give 10% of their salary to the church, and they show their tax returns to prove it in order to get their ID badge to get into the temple.

i) They believe they will one day become Gods themselves, and they believe in celestial polygamy (i.e. polygamy goes down in heaven.)

j) They have secret names that they believe they will need to call out in order to find their family in heaven.