Mormon Church Threatens Critic With Excommunication

[cbayer]

15. Unfortunately I can't listen to the TED talk, but I will at

some point.

While the LDS church has some positions which I strongly object to and have endorsed some behaviors that I think are clearly harmful, I do not think they recruit in a way that is exploitative.

The scientologists, otoh, are extremely good at finding people's personal weak spots and exploiting them in very, very harmful ways. Their position regarding psychiatry is particularly horrible.

I don't embrace either belief set and find them pretty out there, but, as I said, I have had the opportunity to know and work with mormons who I admire and even grew to love. Never once did any of them try to recruit me.

In comparison, I have never met a scientologist who did not overtly proselytize nor have I met one that for whom I could stir up even a hint of fondness.

FWIW, I sat next to a Mormon couple who appeared to be in their 70's for The Book of Mormon. I was concerned that it might be awkward, but they laughed so hard they cried.

I can't imagine scientologists laughing at themselves….. ever.