@anna i hate the conversation that goes:
friend: mormon missionaries! they're so quirky and nice, those mormons
me, glossing over the inherently colonial nature of christian missionaryism: Mormonism is a cult
them: aren't *all* religions cults? if you *think about it*?
me, an ex-mormon: i do not think you understand how messed up Mormonism is
them: yeah but all religions are weird!
like srsly mormonism is an honest-to-goodness harmful racist misogynistic anti-queer soft-doomsday cult & it's so frustrating when people don't believe me or "romanticise" mormons as just quirky helpful nice guys instead of, y'know, people trapped in a cult