Lots of Mormon stereotypes here. I've spent a lot of time around Deseret, and while the LDS church itself has all the problems of a conservative, calcinated religious hierarchy, I have generally found Mormons to be decent folks, or at least no less decent than the general population. There's something Taoist about their reverence for the starstuff we're made from. All Christians say that the body is a temple of God, but they often don't show it really.
Yea, yeah they are mostly ordinary people. That being said the religion is filled with idiosyncrasies and downright weirdness.
Two young Mormon women have been recruiting and reading to residents where I live.
One aspect is accepting the LDS president as god on Earth, like the catholic pope.
Mit Romney was part of a ritual that baptized dead Jews so they could get into heaven. There is a facility for it with a baptismal bath.
It is patriarchal. There is a cult as I would put it were the wife formally submits to husband in all things in a family. It is an attitude and does not necessarily infer mental or physical abuse. The man reigns supreme in authority over wife and kids.
https://www.lds.org/study/ensign/1984/09/being-a-wife?lang=eng
Then there is the holy underwear.
Catholics are mostly ordinary people too.
https://religionnews.com/2017/12/21/mormons-perform-baptisms-on-holocaust-victim
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member’s ancestors, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.
The discoveries made by former Mormon Helen Radkey and shared with The Associated Press likely will bring new scrutiny to a deeply misunderstood practice that has become a sensitive issue for the church. The church, in a statement, acknowledged the ceremonies violated its policy and said they would be invalidated, while also noting its created safeguards in recent years to improve compliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
Post-1979 two-piece temple garments end just above the knee for both sexes. Women's garments have cap sleeves with either a rounded or sweetheart neckline. Male tops are available in tee-shirt styles.[1]
A temple garment, also referred to as garments, the garment of the holy priesthood,[2][3][4] or Mormon underwear,[5] is a type of underwear worn by adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement after they have taken part in the endowment ceremony. Garments are worn both day and night and are required for any adult who previously participated in the endowment ceremony to enter a temple.[6] The undergarments are viewed as a symbolic reminder of the covenants made in temple ceremonies and are seen as a symbolic and/or literal source of protection from the evils of the world.[7]
The garment is given as part of the washing and anointing portion of the endowment. Today, the temple garment is worn primarily by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and by members of some Mormon fundamentalist churches.[8][9] Adherents consider them to be sacred and not suitable for public display. Anti-Mormon activists have occasionally publicly displayed or defaced temple garments to advance their opposition to the LDS Church.[10]
Temple garments are sometimes derided as "magic underwear" by non-Mormons, but Mormons view this terminology to be both misleading and offensive.[11][12][13
