Why does this board always talk about Mormons?

I think they are under a biblical injunction to populate the world...or something like that.

Chai you're probably wrong, may I correct you?

Interesting - references to Hinduism turn up over twice as many times (nearly 1900 hits) on A2K than do references to Mormonism (fewer than 800 hits), Islam is mentioned nearly 13,000 times, and Christianity, at well over 27,000 hits, more than doubles that. It appears this thread's topic post is founded in error ... egregiously so.

dlowan wrote:

I don't believe I have ever mentioned them.

Oddly, though, my best friend in early high school was deflowered, as it were, by one of their "elders" (is it? you know, the fellas who go overseas for a year or so and missionarize) at 14, which we thought was odd, really, since they were supposed not to go closer than handshake distance to a woman.


Well, I suppose she wasn't a woman, so much as a child, so perhaps that made a difference?

He went home to his nice fiancee shortly after, with nary a goodbye....we DID think of sending a photo of her with a new baby (her aunt, in whose home they were both staying, had one at about the right time) but decided his fiancee had done nothing untoward.

YUCK!!! If that's true, that's absolutely horrid.

They still haven't convinced me the world is 10,000 years old.

Everytime I go on this board, I'm always a little fascinated at how every topic seems to turn into people quoting ridiculous stories about Mormonism as fact. There have been times where I'd come onto this board just to explain the truth about the neverending spawn of rumors, generally from the same people... Just search by "Mormon" today and you'll see recent discussions on secret militias within the mainstream church, wearing clothes even while bathing, and mythological views on every political topic in the news.

So what's the demographic of this board that people know so little about Mormons, but think they know so much? Are they just so east coast so they're out of touch with America? (Of course I know plenty of east coast Mormons, too including a sister at Georgetown and one at Harvard who just finished MIT...)

As background, I'm LDS, from San Francisco (Novato, Marin County) and now live in Orem, Utah. I've read the Bible and Book of Mormon many times, have a degree in Latin, and have taken a lot of Greek. While I'm working currently in SOx compliance at my college, I have current teaching credentials in Latin and in Spanish (thus a lot of iberoamerican history classes, also). My wife is from Israel and speaks Hebrew and her father was a (largely Biblical) Archaeology professor. I only say all that because, knowing this board, someone would otherwise quickly respond, "well, maybe you just don't know what really goes on in your church" or "maybe you just haven't read the Bible."

So I really want to know, what is it about this board that they seem to know everything about everything, but seem so wildly off--and not just so off but so aggressively off--on Mormonism? Why do they bring it up so much?

Do the mormons believe that God is up in heaven having sex 24/7 in order to birth "spiritual babies" to be put in the "physical babies" that are being born here on earth? Just curious.

I worship caffeine. The force fields around the LDS camps keep me at least 150 feet away.