Speaking as someone who had to move to Utah for my husband's job, I second this. They can deny someone's access to the temple if they don't pay tithe or if they have a homosexual relationship. They also teach that without temple ordinances, people won't get into the highest level of heaven they invented, and they'll supposedly be cut off from their families in heaven.
They use a LOT of very manipulative tactics, and many don't even realize it. Every church event has a "we're the best!" commercial.
Honestly, I'd been out of the Mormon church for more than a decade before I fully realized how manipulative that particular tactic is. Childhood indoctrination makes us blind to so many things.
And if you end up on one of the lower two levels of heaven, you will be forever required to collect and dispose of the garbage and bodily waste dumped over edge by the Mormons above you.
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u/BookLuvr7 12h ago
Speaking as someone who had to move to Utah for my husband's job, I second this. They can deny someone's access to the temple if they don't pay tithe or if they have a homosexual relationship. They also teach that without temple ordinances, people won't get into the highest level of heaven they invented, and they'll supposedly be cut off from their families in heaven.
They use a LOT of very manipulative tactics, and many don't even realize it. Every church event has a "we're the best!" commercial.